Whispered Stories

Jumped out of bed with this crazy idea that's been lingering in my head for a long time. "I have everything I need—I think." I said as I rushed to pull out my DIY softbox. Drawn by the few silhouette shots I had taken, my mom and brother wanted theirs, too. That's how these shots happened. Lemme know what you think.

For these shots, I used the pro settings for the camera on my phone. Set the ISO at 200, shutter speed to 1/10, and kept the focus on auto and left the grid lines on (because they always are). The softbox has imperfections, so these settings were the sweet spot to hide them and also give me what I wanted.

And, of course, I had a tripod for the job. Then I took the raw photos to Adobe Lightroom and did the final touches. I had to export some to Snapseed for some things that I couldn't do with a freemium account on Lightroom, like 'Healing' to clean up some patches on the softbox and 'Expand' to adjust aspect ratio.

The idea was to tell different stories with each of them, sort of, so I tried including things like my strat guitar, podcast mic, and also my mom praying. Mom didn't initially think the praying would look nice, but guess who now says that's her favourite? "Trust the process, Mom."

I could only take a few distinct shots. Then I added text with Canva.

I'm not sure what I'll do next, but this first try at silhouettes is encouraging. And it's my entry for the #monomad challenge.