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Numbers

by connie

Drew wrote and asked me to write about "Numbers", my winning entry for the red challenge. I am much better behind the camera in my opinion than writing tutorials, so this may be short and I hope I get across how I did this.

The set up is a fairly simple one. This was my first challenge and I was excited! But my thoughts were how can I get an image red? That was the big question. Then it finally came to me few days later, a glass block! Here is what I used to set up the shot:

1 Square glass block

1 Red shirt (I had to improvise)

1 Red vinyl tape measure

1 Portable/Clamp on light with a 60 watt bulb

I placed the shirt on the table then laid the glass block on the shirt hoping that would give me a red hue I wanted. It worked wonderfully! The glass block gave a nice reflection too. I placed the light on the side to give a nice dark shadow within the red tape measure. No flash was used I rarely use it.

I used a aperture setting of f.3.5 in macro mode to fade the tape measure out. An ISO setting of 100 and a shutter speed of 1/250 the camera was set to 640 x 480.

I had to rearrange the and tape measure over and over again to get one I liked. I spent about 2 1/2 hours on this with about 60-70 images on my compact flash cards.

This is the final image I chose for the challenge:

No corrections were made to this image. It was straight off the camera.

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