Some new headphones

Yesterday I received the new headphones I'd ordered. I don't really want to talk about why I needed new headphones but my old pair has ceased to exist. Since I work in a brick and mortar retail establishment I try to purchase locally whenever possible but due to our Covid 19 situation I had few options if I wanted a pair any time soon.

When I got the box I thought to myself "I should play with some black on black lighting."  Photographing anything against its same color presents challenges. Black against black can be especially challenging because edges can simply disappear. So why not occupy some of my free time with such a challenge?

My 7D was at the ready and after a bit of digging through my collection of "broken and junk" lenses I settled on an old Nikon 200mm film camera lens. I had to do a bit of modification to attach it but I made it work.

I was pleased with the results of black box against a black background I achieved. Its nothing terribly exciting of course, but interesting subject matter wasn't really the goal. That's neither a condemnation nor endorsement for these Cowin headphones by the way.

Once I'd finished with the box I was rather excited to open it up and see about grabbing an image of the headphones themselves. As I recalled, they were black.

Opening the box brought me a surprise. I'd forgotten, or possibly hadn't even noticed, how incredibly shiny these headphones are. Oh my! At that moment I gave serious consideration to scrapping the idea of shooting the headphones independently. You know what's even harder than shooting black against black?

Black and silver reflective surfaces. That's what.













Well... why not? I have time right?














So I got to work and, while it may not be anything Cowin would want to use for their advertisements,  I'm fairly pleased with the result.


Old broken camera. Old beat up film camera lens. Some old studio lights, and to be fair, one new light too just because it was handy and I was being lazy. The headphones might be new and shiny but for the most part, these images were shot with equipment that would normally be discarded. And, most importantly, I had fun doing it!









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