{"id":337,"date":"2010-09-12T01:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T06:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=337"},"modified":"2010-09-15T00:15:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T05:15:19","slug":"more-blinds-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"More Blinds in the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I searched for a set of black window blinds to use in a couple of ideas I had for a noir-ish look I was trying to get.\u00a0 You can’t get them at the hardware store – just shades of white and wood.\u00a0 Amazon had some for about 8 dollars.\u00a0 Then came the hard part – light shot through the blinds didn’t create a focused shadow the way you’d expect.\u00a0 You need a hard light either a long distance from the blind or focused with a lens to get a strong shadow.\u00a0 I tore apart a very old slide projector and created a focusing “nose” for a snooted strobe.\u00a0 Here’s the kind of shadow I wanted to create.<\/p>\n

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The shadows and hard light creates a noir look that I really like.\u00a0 My model was very co-operative and helpful with a very appropriate hair-do, dress and facial expression.<\/p>\n

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Taking one of two focusing lenses off allowed the background to hold the blind pattern, but smoothed out the light on the model.\u00a0 The snooted, gridded strobe still provides a nice key light.<\/p>\n

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I thought it would be fun to shoot through the blind.\u00a0 Good eyes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I searched for a set of black window blinds to use in a couple of ideas I had for a noir-ish look I was trying to get.\u00a0 You can’t get them at the hardware store – just shades of white and wood.\u00a0 Amazon had some for about 8 dollars.\u00a0 Then came the hard part –… Read More »More Blinds in the Lab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}