[pure-silver] Re: Getting rid of a block
- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:49:10 +0800
Dear Mark,
If you are going to be stuck inside for a while - winter and all - now
is the time to get out that old 4 x 5 ( Or get another 4 x 5 or two off
eBay ) and clear the furniture out of the lounge room and make yourself a
tabletop studio. You'll need:
1. Camera - a nice old cheap monorail would be perfect.
2. Tripod - which you have.
3. Lights - which you probably have, but they are good value right now.
Even domestic fittings and tungsten bulbs can do the job.
4. Film holders which you have.
5. Models......
a. 1:18 die cast model cars. You will be amazed at what you find in the
model shops.
b. Barbie and Ken and all the others. Toy stores.
c. Fruit and vegetables at the greengrocers. Get the best looking and
wrap them carefully like babies till you get them home ( Odd looks from the
greengrocer....)then light them carefully in classic still life pictures
then slice them and cook them. It is the acceptable face of cannibalism.
d. Eggs. Shelled, raw, cooked, they are all photogenic.
e. Plastic wildlife models. Toy store stuff, but the range of painted
figures from Germany is fantastic. A whole menagerie and you can construct
their environment from garden dirt, twigs, and moss.
6. Tabletop - there is one of these on top of every table. You needn't
buy a special Chinese or German setup table.
7. Big sheet of tracing paper in a picture frame.
8. 35mm slide projector.
The tracing paper screen is placed behind your main model setup and the
35mm projector supplies the backdrop scene. Exposure times are slow, but
this is in a darkened studio anyway. The foreground may need a separate
exposure.
Best of all, this works for B/W and colour. Your studio is unlimited!
Uncle Dick
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