Stock Shot Project

It all started with the light.  I had an Idea for photographing a retro microphone using one tungsten light and a red gel.  Once I had set up for this shot, I thought of adding other objects into the same lighting situation.  Here are a few of the results.

I call this type of shooting "amortizing the setup", where once I have a light I like, I reel through it with a number of concepts that maximize the stock output from the effort.  I ended up with fourteen photos from this one situation.

This was the original photo I intended to take for the blog.

The light reminded me of an emergency so I photographed a stethoscope in the setup.

Next I added this movie countdown clip, and afterwards also photographed a microscope, some forks, a red wine glass, and glass globes.