Hoff Design Studio

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Friday, February 15, 2013

02-15-2013 Horses

My Aunt Marylin Hansen is a fabulous Sculptor. I shot an image of her work as it sat on her worktable when I recently visited her studio. This is the result of applying my artist angle to the photo that I took. Contact me if you would like a print of this. Of course without the watermark. ERHoff

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Life Church Boise - "We're In"

Life Church Boise - "We're In"
New Location - First service today at 10:00am.
It was awesome, and everything went very well. We had a great turnout (filled the house). Audio and Video went nicely considering there were many "firsts". What is most incredible is the amount of work that has been accomplished in the last couple of months. Great job to everyone involved!

Video by Hoff Design Studio

Come And See

Visit Life Church Boise new location on Eagle just north of Franklin, Sundays at 10:00am.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Splash and Pink Rose

Yesterday morning, I shot this with a couple of halogen lights (one on each side of the sink) with the camera set on a tripod. Believe it or not, the two 500w halogen work lights were nearly not enough light for this high speed shot. I think that next time I will experiment with flash. Here is the result of timing a drip from the faucet on my kitchen sink that splashed into a pan filled with dirty dishwater, (thats right, I meant to do the dishes but got sidetracked). Once I captured the image, I converted it to black and white in photoshop, then created a blue gradient image and an amber gradient image and combined all three using the photoshop filter 'multiply'

Next, this morning I was making coffee and looked out the window...yes I got the coffee made first! Then I took a white umbrella (to diffuse the direct sunlight and to reflect my flash), a radio flash unit (fires from a radio signal rather than a flash signal), my 70-200mm 2.8 lense and camera. I put sand bags on the light stand to keep it from blowing over with the umbrella connected. This flower was in the direct sunlight and would have been way over exposed if shot with the direct sunlight, so I placed the umbrella in front of the sun diffusing the light. Then I pointed my flash into the umbrella for light that would enable me to capture a crisp image. The lower the f-stop the blurrier the background and less light in the background. Here is the result after doing some practicing...