Metal.
Oooh I got excited when I saw the comp. title!
Hubby works with metal so we have lots of metal off cuts in in our garage
. I spent last Saturday rummaging through his pile (geez some are so sharp, they're like knives- I've never handled metal before!). I'm scared of knives
so this was a double challenge for me
.
Once I set it all up hubby really enjoyed seeing some of these old bits he hadn't seen for a long time- CAD laser cut bit, some machined bits etc. Hope my metal lingo is correct
Rewind when I'd just started setting up and he spotted me handling that long spiral off cut at the front trying to un-knot it from others. He went crazy with fear, I got a lecture on how he's seen finger pads ripped off by them blah blah. I don't ever think I've ever scared him so much
. He handed me tongs
.
Geeeez this photo challenge business with blokes toys can be dangerous
.
I set up when it got dark to try and play with light and shadows- a subject that's fascinating to me and I want to learn, so was lots of fun. Aside from my ceiling light, I had one to the side and I had alfoil everywhere incl. hanging down vertically to bounce the light. I shot in RAW which is something I don't normally do. And omg the nightmare it gave me. After all that effort, both my basic editing programmes wouldn't open it
. I'm only just starting to learn the Canon editing software and I don't have a very good head for understanding editing as it is, and the RAW files showed up with so much info, it was confusing, my head was well and truly being fried.
I tried several attempts, none of them being as good as the RAW pic
.
I gave it to hubby to have a go at editing but gave it back to me quite dark, I was like.... I spent so much effort to bounce light and you go and remove it, what the hell
, so I fired him.
So anyhow.... here it is, straight out of the camera, just cropped.
I won't be working with RAW again for a really long time
!