It came to my attention that one of the FtBloggers doesn’t like squirrels.
I get brainfarts a lot. So I immediately thought of “secret squirrel” which is what we used to call wanna-be intelligence spooklets: you know the type, they go around saying “I know this and that but I can’t tell you.” (which I discuss here [stderr])
self portrait as a squirrel, 2017 mjr.
I was looking around on Ebay for a latex Donald Trump mask, and found a page of cool masks including a Squirrel. Well, I have a trenchcoat! And a camera! And lights!
This is a very simple cinematic lighting trick that I use a lot. I have an overhead Chimera pan softbox mounted up in the ceiling beams, that I can hook up to the strobe controller with an extension cable. The rest of the light is a carefully-positioned gridded strip softbox off to camera right, dialed to give me f/8 against the overhead box’ f/22. My hand is in my pocket because I control the camera with a pocketwizard (appropriately named in this example) remote flash trigger modified to trip the camera. To position and compose the scene I hang the coat on a light-stand where my head will be, make sure it looks right, then position myself with my head where the stand’s end was, put the costume on, and goof around for a few minutes, pushing the button occasionally.
Okay, still makes me laugh. And I remember Secret Squirrel all too well.
Also, if you really wanted to be nasty, the title should have been “The Squirrel People Are Coming To Get You, Iris” a la George Romero.
Caine@#2:
I was afraid I was already getting a bit stalkerish, what with that pose and lighting and whatnot. No sense tramatizing our coblogborgs.
You people are terrible and you should feel bad.
Also: nao I haz a big skared. :o
Iris Vander Pluym@#4:
I promise, it’s just a mask. I took it off.
And put on my Donald Trump mask.
pics or it di’n’t happen
I love this. The pose and dark, dramatic light is perfect.
My hand is in my pocket because I control the camera with a pocketwizard
I usually solve this problem by setting my camera to take a shot 4 seconds after I have pushed the remote trigger button. This gives me enough time to put aside the remote and thus I don’t need to hide my hand holding the remote.