Yes, I get bored sometimes (click photo to embiggen).

That's the first 10 days of the Countdown project done; hopefully I'll get a video slideshow thingumy online tomorrow.

I dented a while back about wanting to try this out some time over the summer. For the link averse, 'this' is a video of photographer Clay Enos shooting portraits of random people on the street in front of a piece of white seamless paper.

So, in the spirit of JFDI, I've decided to give it a shot. My seamless is on order with Creativity Backgrounds (black rather than white, however) and, once I get back from some well-earned chilling time, I'll go and try this out in the centre of Lancaster, on a Saturday. I've even got a location picked out (I think, anyway). I'm going to take some lighting gear (just one light and a softbox, I think) along as well because the location is not the best lit area of town.

Watch this blog for updates.

One photographer, one camera, one lens, one light, one background. And my aim is to get one hundred portraits, if I can.

Here's to mad ideas.

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three Hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 359

One of my fiancée's bears, Rosie, playing guinea pig in my strobist experimentation.

Strobist info: Vivitar 285HV on 1/16th power through a black straw grid to camera left.

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 300

My good friend Matt Revell. He asked me to take a couple of shots of him to use around and about the place; this pretty much sums up his character and why I like him.

Strobist info: SB-600 in a LumiQuest Softbox III to camera left on a TTL cord, used to balance out the fairly horrible ambient.

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 293

Testing my new Westcott shoot-through umbrella.

Strobist info: Vivitar 285hv at 1/16 through a shoot-through umbrella just above and behind the camera.