The equipment I used were the camera, a tripod, two flashlights (not in all shots), some paper, sticky tape, cardboard and the subject. Speaking about the subject, I went round the house looking for something proper to shoot. O finally found an old russian film camera and the film next to it, so I thought that might be a great subject.
I put two white big toy boxes (cardboard) perpendicular to the white wall in the background, in order to let the light bounce off the edges. I didn't want a white background, so a glossy black rigid magazine did the trick. In order to create a more focused ligth out of the flashlight, I created a paper cone around it and sticked it with sticky tape. Then, to create the gradient in the background i used my phone's flash. The actual phone was hidden by the subject, and the light of the flash was more difused than the flashlight's ones, so it made a great radient in the background.
A plus added to the photo, I think, is the framing. It's quite unconventional, isn't it?
The latest picture, as you can see on google plus, it's more focused than it appears here, but that is because, again, I had to resize it from the HTML code of the post, and that afected the quality.
Ending with a photographer's "quote", he said: "So I convinced a little chinese boy on his bike to come on a narrow dark street so I can flash him...". This is actually taken from a digitalrev TV episode which, by the way, I find quite interesting...
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