241/365 - Jim - Wheel

( f/5 10.5mm 1/60 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

I got home pretty late today, so I went out and took a photo of the wheel of my car. It was really dark, so I used the SB-800 flash remotely. Then using Lightroom I applied a preset to give it the blue tint. This is what happens when I have little time before midnight to take my photo of the day...

039/365 - Jim - Lemon Wheel

( f/22 200mm 6 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Theme is wheel. I almost changed the theme because I couldn't come up with any interesting ideas for a wheel. I started thinking about back lighting and then it hit me. A backlit lemon slice looks kind of like a wheel. I tried a few shots with a snooted flash but didn't like them very much. So I just used the model light in the flash as my back light. The background is Translum and I used one of those Glade plugin things that have 3 led lights on it and does a little light show. I stopped it on red and waved it around behind the Translum for the 6 second exposure. I cropped and tilted the image in post processing.