Chess

Well it has been a little longer than I wanted to get this next one up but I have been pretty busy over the last week but I did some playing around today to get something for C. I had an idea of using a chess board and trying to come up with a more dramatic lighting look. Originally I kind of wanted to back light a few of the pieces so the pices would be more of a silhouette, however, I could not totally figure out how to achieve what I was seeing in my head (this I blame on the head cold I have). I then moved the light off to the side to get more of an extreme side light look with a dark background and this is what we have here. I may need to revisit doing some shots with the chess board some day as I have seen some interesting shots using one as a prop, including putting fog in the scene with some dry ice.

Bible

For B I thought I would use the Bible, seemed like the best option to me as it is something I try to read on a regular basis. Not much to this setup but one interesting thing I did was to put my flash in the light. So the lamp was not on at all and all the light was from my flash that was set up wireless and held up in the top of the light with some really small bungee straps. In case you are wondering it was open on Proverbs chapters 25-27 and there was no real reason behind it, just where I opened it to.