Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

Photo365-20100202 – Lizard Lamp, originally uploaded by HokiePerogi.
1/80 sec @ f/1.8, ISO 160, 50mm (EF50mm f/1.8 II)

Recently I have had less and less time to plan out my picture for the day.  It used to be that I would spend up to, and sometimes over, an hour looking for an interesting subject and then shooting it many different ways.  Over the past few weeks, I have been trying to find the little things in my every day life that I take for granted and shoot them quickly.  This bedside table lamp in my hotel room is one of those little things.  I turn this lamp, or one just like it, on and off multiple times each day during the week.  The texture of the lamp base has always struck me as interesting.  Today, I decided to take a picture of it for the first time.  No special processing was used to get the end result.  It is straight out of my camera.

Photo365-20100201 – Blasphemy, originally uploaded by HokiePerogi.
1/80 sec @ f/1.8, ISO 500, 50mm (EF50mm f/1.8 II)

This is what my setup looks like when I am crashing in a hotel during the week.  The Wacom tablet makes the trip with me when I hit the road.  The MacBook Pro has become my primary machine for both work and photography.  However, since nearly all of my company’s clients still use PC-based software applications, I keep a Windows XP virtual machine available.

I had an incredibly tough time getting the color balance correct in this photograph.  If I adjusted for the room coloring to remove the yellow tones, the screen on the laptop was no longer at the correct balance.  The version of the photograph above was adjusted to make the colors on the screen look right.  However, this left the colors in the room very yellow.  I probably needed to go with an approach of adjusting the color balance on two separate layers in Photoshop and then use masking to merge them together.