08:46 – It’s Veterans Day, which is also my mother’s birthday. She was born 11 November 1918, the day WWI ended, and would have been 96 years old today.
I need to get a tabletop photography area set up downstairs so that I can shoot a bunch of images for the prepping book. I’m going to use white background paper with two lights on the front corners of the work surface, each angled in at 45° and angled down at 45°. Because I may be using small apertures and correspondingly long exposures, I’m going to hang my Colt 1911 Combat Commander as a weight on the center column of the tripod. The reason I’m being so specific is that I intend to file for a patent on this method. I’m going to call it the 45/45/45 method. And if Amazon comes after me, I intend to re-purpose one of those 45’s.