Bacon Lettuce Photo

by Joe

Technically the shot is very simple; it’s taken with a Canon EOS 40d and a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro.
No flash was used: light enters from the door you can see reflected in the left side of the sphere.
These are specs:
shutter: 1/40s
aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 800
I used an high ISO setting in order to shot with a decent shutter speed to avoid motion blur.

There’s nothing that inspired me the shot, even if there is a famous Escher’s work with the same subject (a sphere in the hand). I think that every photographer, with a reflecting sphere in the hand, think about taking
a self portrait.
The particularity of my shot is the murder.
Well… I’m not new of this kind of “crazy” photos
It’s simple: sometimes I need to break with tradition
Ah: yes, I survived!

P.S. the sphere is a boading ball

Thank you Andrea for sharing your work with us. What caught my eye was the simple fact that your shot was not traditional. Check our some other shots Andrea took.

Some thing that was hard for me when taking photos was adjusting my ISO so that my shots weren’t blurred. I just didn’t want any grain in my images. I wanted them to be perfect, however, they would often times come out blurry because I didn’t have a fast enough shutter speed. So I traded blurry photos instead of clear photos with some grain. So learn from my mistake, capture the shot, even if it means that it is going to be a little grainy. Grainy photos are not the end of the world.

Phew, went on a little rant their didn’t I?

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Tags: Canon, Canon EOS 40D, F/2.8, Tamron, Tamron 90mm

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