Any photographers in here?

[808MP5]

My First Attempt At Shooting The Moon

 

[FunkyBuddha]

^^^ is it wrong that im slightly turned on??

by which? Real girl or fake girl with no arms? LOL

 

[batou079]

both...

(naughty)
(freak)
(headshake

 

[Vocko]

Got to do a few portrait shoots tomorrow and need your advice.
At my disposal are Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-200mm and Nikon SB800 flash. The problem is that I haven't had the chance to test out the equipement today and this needs to be done first thing in the morning.

What setting should I use? How to setup the flash, since I haven't used an external flash ever? It's a indoor (room) shot and a white background (projector canvas) will be used.

Hope I gave enough info. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

 

[altspace]

My First Attempt At Shooting The Moon

Nice! I sized mine down a bit.

 

[808MP5]

hehe... looks like we took the pic the same night... it was a little harder than expected.... i'm sure to try it again

 

[sleeper3]

What is it for? I'd use about f8 if you can... you'll probably have to push the ISO up to counter the narrow aperture. Also, use the long side of the lens to minimize the facial distortion.

 

[judman13]

I've got to do a few portrait shoots tomorrow and need your advice.
I have at my disposal Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-200mm and Nikon SB800 flash. The problem is that I haven't had the chance to test the equipement today and this needs to be done first thing in the morning.

What setting should I use? How to setup the flash, since I haven't used an external flash ever? It's a indoor (room) shot and a white background (projector canvas) will be used.

Hope I gave enough info. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Are you doing creative portraits or just run of the mill head shots?

For the run of the mill head shots, I would set the sb800 up as an off camera flash to either light up the background or provide some fill flash to reduce shadows from the on camera flash.

If you are shooting creative stuff them you can use the sb800 if you feel like it for some fill flash, but you don't have to.

 

[Vocko]

Simple head shots for some documents and maybe a website.

 

[Radar_This]

For you A's fans...1988 Team Ball

 

[Wagonbacker9]

My First Attempt At Shooting The Moon

you play spades?

 

[Zooms]

1/250 sec @ f5.6 ISO 320 400mm cropped

 

[mobius120487]

Wow...lunar shots always elude me....

 

[SeR_Cyclops]

X2

 

[808MP5]

you play spades?

That's a negative

 

[808MP5]

1/250 sec @ f5.6 ISO 320 400mm cropped

Nice. Shot mine at 300mm. Didn't really take note of the settings. Just kept fiddling and took about 50shots

 

[FunkyBuddha]

I like Zoom's moon pic.

808 - too grainy and noisy

Altspace - too soft and loss of details.



Vocko - You might be kinda screwed if they wanted pure white with just the equipment you listed. Suggest that you take them outside against a cloudless sky. This way, you can shoot a overexposed background, with the subject being properly lit.

With one flash, you have to light the wall white, but that leaves your subject out. one way to do it, is shoot the white wall first, then put the subject in and light them w/ the flash. put the 2 pictures together in pshop.

Or take my first option and take the pictures outside.

 

[FunkyBuddha]

 

[Vocko]

@Funky - It's raining cats and dogs here, but I'll try the second option in a day or two when we do it again.

Thnx everybody for your comments, they all helped!

 

[Fireglow6]

So I got my camera adapters in!!! Started playing a little with the fish-eye! These are just the begining, will be doing a lot more with them!