True Blood

True Blood

Yes that is human blood. It's my blood.

This is really sadistic but originally I was going to cut myself to do a similar shot with less blood. I wanted the authenticity of true blood. I was in the bathroom, I had the knife pictured above in my hand and I had my Nikon D300 sitting on the counter ready to go. As I looked in the mirror holding a knife and my arm out, I just couldn't get myself to do it. It really freaked me out just running the tip of the blade over my skin.

So I figured shit, there goes my Macro Monday.

Luckily I've been sick this whole week and when I get sick, I occasionally get a nose bleed. As luck would have it I got a major nose bleed Friday night and I grabbed my camera in my computer room, grabbed the knife in the kitchen and ran to the bathroom sink and I let myself bleed out for a few minutes into the sink and over the knife. And here we are.

This is for the group Macro Mondays. This is a fun group where every Monday, a macro photograph is submitted for the week's theme. This week's theme was "Halloween".

Taken with a Nikon D300 w/ a 60mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor Lens

Nikon Speedlight SB800

In The Middle Of My Chest

In The Middle Of My Chest

Quote Of Title Inspiration : "A great photo happens when a photographer sees a situation unfolding in front of them that evokes an emotion that the photographer feels deep down, in the middle of their chest. And in a split second, they then make a conscience choice of exposure, lens, depth of field, lighting, body language, composition, etc., and releases the shutter. The film is then processed, scanned, laid out on a page, printed on a press, driven across town to the newspaper carrier who throws it on some guy's porch, who then opens the newspaper and looks down at that photo … and if that guy gets the same feeling deep down in the middle of his chest that the photographer did when they viewed the situation in the first place, they have made a great photo." - Anonymous



For technical questions : This image took me 4 hours of postprocessing. If you have ever done postprocessing on one single image you know that sometimes the longer you process the harder it gets to like it ;) .

Question To The Readers : What was the longest time you postprocessed 1 image? Do you remember? Btw : Thanks for reading until here!

Piena del Tevere 13/12/2008

Piena del Tevere 13/12/2008

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