New Model Is In The House, Y'all!

Big brother came back in the country from a business trip in China. This stuff is one of the best things he brought home for me and my wife. Thanks a lot!

So glad, aside from being a home decoration, I can use it as one of my photography subjects when I just feel like shooting still life or "model-like" indoors. I used to check out Danbo online for character shots, but I'll skip that in the mean time and make really good time out of this. From the Ikea shelf to my studio setup.

What name should I call him or her or it?

Do an S-shape please? Now hold it! Great!

It's really great, because it can be positioned in any "human-like" form.

Shot from a stepladder. Not really.

That's more than an 18% grey card. Wow!

So, you want to book my freelance still life model, huh?

Fifty Shades - I Don't Read, I Just Shoot

f10 at 1/200, ISO L1.0

bare flash with blue gel @ right of subject

bare flash with yellow gel @ left of subject

I was shooting still life (below) and trying the DIY color gels I got for cheap, really cheap!

After I got the shot, I saw those books (above) stacked in the shelf. Those aren't mine and I haven't read them, didn't even open them even a page. I know they are interesting books, for the stories, but I'm much interested in photography and just had them as subjects. 

f10 at 1/200, ISO L1.0

bare flash with red gel @ left of subject

white card board as fill @ right of subject