Headshot Peter Hurley style

Well restarting my journey of project 104 hope to continue for another 40 weeks...

This was my try to get the Peter Hurley look for my son's Headshot. Shot from outside the window while asking my son to look towards window. Post processed to make BG brighter.

43: Moon Aura

Plan: I always wanted to capture the aura of moon along with the passing clouds.

Story: I made lot of attempts with the zoom lens earlier. Then came across an article on use of kit lens. And saw a click of the moon with some building. So tried it with the 50F80. Along with the building and focusing well at the top floor could get this click.

24: Self Help

Plan: To create a photo of myself with my car then I thought why not make a photo of me helping myself.

Story : Created  a setup in my parking and to have proper lighting added a bounce flash. Used 10 sec camera timer and took three photos in succession. Rest was easy in post processing. By importing other 2 photos as layers.

Learning : Using flash to achieve consistent lighting over three photos is better than depending on the natural light to be same across 3 different shots. Also Implemented the PP of using layers and masking.

Stump vision. 3 of 104

 Plan: Get behind the stump and click the action of street cricket. Focus on stump and blur the kids in action.


Result:

Story: I had major issue since kids these days do not play with stumps. So this plan had to be impromptu executed on a day when kids are out with the stump.

So this was the day. Stumps were out and I was early from the office. Sun was getting down which was nice. Initially thought to click at 200mm but then considering the light took 50F18.

Kids did not have enough players to keep the wicket so my role was to click photo and serve as reserve keeper. First few clicks and I saw this composition in the LCD and was sure it was usable.
Longer Focal length would have helped. May be, but I think it would distort the background to not get these out of focus kids in frame.

Score : 7/10 (White stump colour could have made a difference)

Series of items focus on one : Small DOF 2/104

Plan: Search for a series of items and focus on one of it and other items are blurred. If required use the 50F18 lens.

Things like railings/window grills can be considered.

Result: 

Story:
Was checking out grills and railings but nothing interesting was seen. In the mean time went to rooftop. Bingo earlier had thought of clicking this one but did not since I had no DSLR at that time. There is a battery for inverter and it is having this colourful series on top of it.

Tried with kit lens but light was less and also DOF was not less needed higher aperture. Switched to my 50F18 in manual focus. Clicked 4 of them with different pieces in focus. Finally chose this one.