Blue Skies
A little bit of photoshop magic and that grey backdrop turns into (sort of) blue skies.
Freeze!
Stop motion in the studio must be done with strobes rather than shutter speed. It’s a bit of a balance act – not to mention the space issue!
Hollywood Style
Hard directional light is tough to manage, but it can create a classic Hollywood portrait style.
Friends!
One of the wonderful things about living all around the world is all the great friends you get to make. We hadn’t seen these friends of ours in literally 10 years! What a great reunion. 
1930 dustbowl
Matthew helped me out with a theme I’ve been wanting to work on. He’s an excellent actor.
Spring Tulips
More still life. The light needs to be just right on these for them to be interesting.
main light camera left, background light camera left flagged, rim light below and behind the table
Blue – not me, the photos.
The last still life challenge was simply “blue”. I thought it would be a breeze, but realized quickly that I was going to struggle with it. This is my favorite, although in retrospect I think a bit more DOF would have been nice.
Chicken Do Piyaza and Eggplant Subzi
On Tuesday I had the absolute pleasure of attending a Pakistani cooking class. These are the two dishes we learned to make. Both are delicious! If you are in the Geneva area and would like to attend a class, contact me and I’ll give you the details.
Chicken Do Piyaza
ingredients: 1 whole chicken skin off and cut into 12 pieces, 1 cup of yogurt, 1/2 cup of cooking oil, 4 medium onions peeled and thinly sliced, 1 garlic pod peeled and sliced, a 2 inch piece of ginger peeled and julienned, salt to taste.
Eggplant Subzi
ingredients: 3 medium eggplants, 1/2 cup of oil, 2 pureed tomatoes, 1 tblsp each of ginger and garlic paste, 1/2 tsp each of kalonji or whole cumin seeds, 1 tsp of fennel seeds, 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp chili powder or cayenne pepper, salt to taste.
