One of the challenges I often give to myself is to make interesting pictures in uniteresting places. Above is a shot of my friend Alex laying down on the white line of a tennis court that splits the red and green areas. I stood above her and shot down. See the below diagram for details.
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I have been creating sets in the studio that essentially follow the four-foot by eight-foot panel-board formula.
Generally speaking I’ve been taking four-foot by eight-foot thrifty white panel (the same white panel board that Mr. OneLight speaks of here) and hanging it horizontal from the ceiling to create my backdrops. I then paint it or wheat-paste newspapers to it, hang burlap over it, drag Christmas lights over it, stick stuff to it, the list is never-ending and the set up is simple. That’s it, one $11 board and some ideas and you have endless opportunities to create interesting and unique pictures.
So this time it happened to be four-feet by four-feet and not four-feet by eight-feet and it cost $75 not $11 but I couldn’t help myself.
The above image is a four foot by four foot piece of movie-theater ticket-window glass that was already
I set this one up as a tribute of sorts for all of my newspaper buddies. I started out as a photojournalist and from time to time I really miss it; with furlough days and layoffs it’s not a pretty industry to be working in right now though. These are also all of my grandmother’s newspapers (she’s the only person I know who continues to have them delivered to the door and still does the crosswords, everyday – you’ll see her handwriting folded over in the middle of the desk) and I used my grandfather’s Zippo and typewriter too, so I guess it’s a bit of a tribute to them as well.
The set up is cheap and simple really. I find half the battle in photography to be coming up with ideas not the technical side of things. The other half is being able to afford the ideas. This set cost me $14. Here’s how it all breaks down:
