nazgul350r
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Any photographers in here?
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FunkyBuddha
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- 2003 Spicy Orange MSP
My buddy Jim when we went on a road trip to Yellowstone in the summer. Long exposure and pretty much told him to sit still
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FunkyBuddha
Tuned by Slick Nick
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- 2003 Spicy Orange MSP
Use the ND filter to bump the exposure down so you can use a slow enough shutter speed during broad daylight or else you'd have to wait till it's almost dark out, which is what I did.
yup.
yes, I see the dirt/dust. I dont know how to get it out. I bought a camera cleaning kit and tried blowing it out but its still there. nothing I do can get those out.
earlier attempts..
I over saturated this one to compensate for the blurriness
and all the back to my first attempt. No tripod = noob!
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FunkyBuddha
Tuned by Slick Nick
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- 2003 Spicy Orange MSP
yup.
yes, I see the dirt/dust. I dont know how to get it out. I bought a camera cleaning kit and tried blowing it out but its still there. nothing I do can get those out.
earlier attempts..
I over saturated this one to compensate for the blurriness
and all the back to my first attempt. No tripod = noob!
Your sensor needs cleaning for sure.
How? I tried blowing it out, using a microfiber cloth, etc etc. nothing works.
There are NO camera shops on the island. ??
for sensor cleaning click
http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Photography-Tips/Sensor-Cleaning.aspx
http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Photography-Tips/Sensor-Cleaning.aspx
thank you. I'll give that a shot.
Happy New Year everyone!
I am catching up going through the last few pages of shots and see some very good images.
AWDTerror,
Congratulations on getting the sweet AB set-up. I have just a few comments to make on the shots you posted. First, as a general work flow critique: the majority of your images appear underexposed on my monitor. Since I have calibrated my monitor with a HW calibrator I am inclined to conclude that your monitor may need to be calibrated. It is also possible that you were going for a dark and mysterious look for some of your shots, but I don't think that's what it is.
Regarding the self portraits: the lighting is nice and soft but you kind of appear to be coming out of the carbonite; a phrase I use to describe a scene lit without the use of a hair/rim light. Placing a bare strobe at low power directly behind you, or a gobo'ed strobe just out of the picture camera right, would provide much needed separation of the subject from the dark background. Since you have the equipment you might as well...Also consider putting a colored gel on that back light.
EDIT: My own Coming out of the Carbonite image
Of course, these look underexposed to me, too. I highly (highly!) recommend you shoot in a RAW format and process starting with Adobe Lightroom. This work flow will allow you to recover from under/over exposure while still getting good shots. While you are learning there are going to be many times you just don't get all of the elements (exposure, composition, facial expression, lighting, etc) to come together just right. Using RAW will allow you to control for at least a few of those variables.
I am catching up going through the last few pages of shots and see some very good images.
couple self-portraits playing around with the strobes
AWDTerror,
Congratulations on getting the sweet AB set-up. I have just a few comments to make on the shots you posted. First, as a general work flow critique: the majority of your images appear underexposed on my monitor. Since I have calibrated my monitor with a HW calibrator I am inclined to conclude that your monitor may need to be calibrated. It is also possible that you were going for a dark and mysterious look for some of your shots, but I don't think that's what it is.
Regarding the self portraits: the lighting is nice and soft but you kind of appear to be coming out of the carbonite; a phrase I use to describe a scene lit without the use of a hair/rim light. Placing a bare strobe at low power directly behind you, or a gobo'ed strobe just out of the picture camera right, would provide much needed separation of the subject from the dark background. Since you have the equipment you might as well...Also consider putting a colored gel on that back light.
EDIT: My own Coming out of the Carbonite image
Of course, these look underexposed to me, too. I highly (highly!) recommend you shoot in a RAW format and process starting with Adobe Lightroom. This work flow will allow you to recover from under/over exposure while still getting good shots. While you are learning there are going to be many times you just don't get all of the elements (exposure, composition, facial expression, lighting, etc) to come together just right. Using RAW will allow you to control for at least a few of those variables.
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Here are two from the other day.
Lighting Info: Nikon SB-600 flash through a white umbrella above camera right. 42" reflector camera left. The subject is standing about 18" from the background which allowed it to be illuminated by the key light.
Lighting Info: Nikon SB-600 flash through a white umbrella above camera right. 42" reflector camera left. The subject is standing about 18" from the background which allowed it to be illuminated by the key light.
I took this the same day, playing around with a sample gel pack.
The above pictures were taken with one light in a medium sized soft box.
I was going for the dark and mysterious look. I also have my monitors calibrated.
And I shoot in RAW.
3 ABs
one in a large soft box
one hair light
one background light
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yes TONS of good info. I still get a kick out of the 12 580 exII "gang light"....
on your pictures there seems to be not enough contrast, a "stonewashed" effect. Is that what you were going for?
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FunkyBuddha
Tuned by Slick Nick
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- 2003 Spicy Orange MSP
Strobist is the temple and we are the minions LOL
I'm not sure you meant "contrast" as I believe there is plenty, especially the couple pictured in my original post. If anything, there is way too much contrast in that image.
Maybe you meant "saturation" in the two images with my brother? I agree that the image appears desaturated but I believe that is somewhat of an optical illusion given the similarity in shade and tone between the subject's clothing (the sweatshirt as well as the "rose" and "cheese" elements on the shirt) and the background. In reality the saturation has been amplified to a small degree in post.
FunkyBuddha
Tuned by Slick Nick
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slight boost in contrast
there seems to be a gray haze on your pictures.
also got rid of the vignetting
Too much contrast. The previous 2 pictures actually looked okay on my monitors. Calibrated as well
I hope you don't mind some editing of the pics.
funky: i though so to, they looked ok though. it was done using a kubota action on my sis comp(calibrated mac). I'm kinda on the fence about them, some of them work great, others not so much, what do you guys think on kubota actions?
ETA:Sorry, I should have asked permission before I edited them. Pictures removed until further.
funky: i though so to, they looked ok though. it was done using a kubota action on my sis comp(calibrated mac). I'm kinda on the fence about them, some of them work great, others not so much, what do you guys think on kubota actions?
ETA:Sorry, I should have asked permission before I edited them. Pictures removed until further.
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