March 2010 - Photography assignment - Light & shadow

**Michaelaw** · 03-21-2010, 12:05 PM

**Marko** · 03-21-2010, 12:06 PM

Cool shot MA!
Bambi - Nice one - looks infrareddish.
I like your beach find iggy!
Nice city shot Maw!

**jumpinjimmyjava** · 03-21-2010, 12:52 PM

Hi Kat. Wow that's a very intense portrait. Well done. Cheer up, things will get better

- jimmy

**jumpinjimmyjava** · 03-21-2010, 12:54 PM

Super photo reedflutesong. It draws a person right in - jimmy

**QuietOne** · 03-21-2010, 03:03 PM

MA, I saw the lights reflected in the lens glass and my first thought was of seed beads. But I imagine those would interfere with getting any kind of photo.

I like your other photo, too, especially the way the light and shadow is off center. The picture on the tin immediately triggered a poem I hadn't thought of in years:

"I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
but I can tell you anyhow;
I'd rather see than be one!"

The author eventually hated it, because it got 'overplayed', and a number of people did their own versions of it.
Purple Cow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ain't Google wonderful?

**Mad Aussie** · 03-21-2010, 04:29 PM

Bambi ... it IS a heavy lens to hold! My hand is always under it while shooting and holding the tripod mount (which I flip to the top side) when walking.

QuietOne ... those 'seed beads' are actually the reflections of the LED light I was using. It has 3x 3watt Cree LEDs in a triangle pattern in the head which is what you are seeing. The different colours come from refraction as it passes through the glass elements inside the lens I guess.
Always nice when an image invokes something from one's memory