Week 5

Something for the Web

I have finally got around to posting a Book Review on Project 12, and as part of my "Web Site Beautification" drive, I decided to prepare a custom header for the Project 12 web page.

Here is the finished header - or you could just view the Project 12 page !


There was no special setup involved here - black backcloth, books propped vertically, and flash in P-TTL ( Pentax version of smart through the lens flash adjustments) bounced of the (white) ceiling.
I did try using a black shiny surface for a reflection, but I wasn't happy with the results, so I dropped it.

(And yes, Light Science & Magic is in there twice - because it deserves to be read twice!)

The process was a little bit mechanical - take picture, check for faults, repeat until done.

Then I used a Mac specific graphics program called Pixelmator, where I just made a new graphic the exact size of the required header, opened all the pictures in Pixelmator, selected the bits I wanted from each picture and then placed them in my new graphic. A background bucket fill to black, along with a few brush strokes to clean up some bits of the various selections and there you have it.

Probably took longer to type this than to do.

I have an idea for some "Golden Hour" pictures for next week so I hope the weather co-operates.