I'm really loving this strobist thing.

This weekend I tried out the first assignment in the Lighting 102 series: Cooking Light. The assignment was to take any reasonably shiny kitchen utensil and take pictures of it while paying particular attention to controlling the specular highlight. That's the direct reflection from the light source. In this case, I used a microplane grater and tried out a couple different specular highlight options. This is my favorite of the group because of its abstract nature. The light is coming from a 540EZ strobe on the right, bounced off of a cardboard box behind the grater.

I'm thinking about doing a basic photography class for some friends and possibly running it as a seminar at some of the local Science Fiction and Fantasy conventions in town. I know general photography isn't really a SciFi thing, but it seems like something the general public needs to have now that digital photography has come to the masses. Since more people are able to take and share photos without thinking about it, the overall quality of published imagery has really gone down. Besides, I think there are enough hungry minds at these conventions that the technical side will really appeal. So anyway, if I do it as a seminar, the title will be "How to Take Pictures that Don't Suck".

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