365/72 Something Old/7

I don't know when Folgers had this design for their coffee containers, but I do know they've been using plastic for a while now, so this pretty old!

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.8, 1/250sec and ISO 100. Flash bounced off white posterboard camera left @ +1EV compensation.

365/71 Something Old/6

I remembered I still had this old Canon PowerShoot S10 laying around. This brings back some nice memories!

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/3.2, 1/250sec and ISO 100. Flash bounced off white posterboard, camera left @ 0EV compensation.

Aperture was exactly large enough for the DOF to capture just what I wanted. And TTL worked perfectly this time, the exposure was perfect, the histogram covered the whole range!

365/70 Something Old/5

Time is the oldest thing out there, there is nothing older, not many actual objects existed at the beginning of time, if there even is such a thing.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/5.6, 3.2 seconds and ISO 100.

You can actually see how long the shutter was open by looking at the ghosted second hand!

The clock is also old, not quite that old.

365/69 Color Accent/4

I was in an experimenty mood today, and decided to mess around with textures. First the real deal, full color regular edition. This is a photo of by far the oldest jar of Vaseline I'll ever see. If you have an older one, email me, I'd love to see it! It's still about half full and I'm sure well past the expiration date it doesn't have... Even the drug store it was bought from has been closed down for ages.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/4.0, 1/100sec (oops) and ISO 100. Flash bounced off white posterboard camera right (how'd you guess?) @ +1.0EV compensation.

Now the textured version. Love it or hate it, I'm still undecided on this one. Let me know what you think!

365/68 Something Old/3

Aging dead tree trunk in the front yard. It's not the most interesting of photographs, I tried to add "interestingness" by playing with the angle and depth of field, but it's a dead tree, not sure what else I could have done here.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/4, 1/1250sec and ISO 100.

365/67 Something Old/2

I found many old things in the attic (many generations of pack rats lived in this house), but this drew my attention for some reason. This light bulb has been in the attic since before the current owner bought it, which was not exactly last year if you know what I mean. The houses in this city are at least 80 years old.

I used a soft light layer at 50% for added contrast, then various color modification layers (saturation, selective color, brightness/contrast, levels) to exaggerate the dirt on the bulb. The color tone was unaffected, it's just a little more "poppy" now.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/8, 1/250sec and ISO 400. Flash bounced off white posterboard camera right @ +2.0EV compensation.

365/66 Something Old/1

This one was very difficult. I had the light of one "60 watt" fluorescent light bulb in the really far background to "help" the camera lock on focus, and manually wasn't much better (I simply couldn't see, it was too dark). This was the best out of 4 shots, black and white conversion and then a really light red tone over it for mood.

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0, 1/250sec and ISO 400. Flash bounced off a white poster board camera right @ 0EV compensation.