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Digital SLR / DSLR Camera Question / DSLR Thread 2

cycle61 said:
Anything to share from these shoots?
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You've seen 'em!

I'll put up links soon for everyone else.

I'm having to rest, you know why. I would put the pics up, but A. I'm embarrassed for being such a dumbass and B. I already fished for enough sympathy from everyone on Facebook...

Short story - Ian versus chain-link fence. Guess who won? I'm owie.

Need to finish sorting the Connie shoot and put those up. Again, kinda delayed, tho hand is starting to work again. Not typing with just my left anymore. Still can't hold an art-pad pen tho.
 
OK, I'm waiting for tea, so wtf.

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Nice!

Ok, the white backdrop is something I TOTALLY fail at. What am I missing? When I ramp up the lights enough to blow it out, the foreground is also blown out, even if I use lights to light it directly, and then I usually get this weird halo effect from too much reflected light off the backdrop onto skin.
 
Joebar4000 said:
Nice!

Ok, the white backdrop is something I TOTALLY fail at. What am I missing? When I ramp up the lights enough to blow it out, the foreground is also blown out, even if I use lights to light it directly, and then I usually get this weird halo effect from too much reflected light off the backdrop onto skin.
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http://www.zarias.com/?p=71
 
Oh, is that all? :laughing

Um. Still, the tile flooring is cool. Gives me some ideas. Maybe I can convince Doug to let me build a cyclorama in his garage.
 
Meter Man said:
A question: On inside photos in a restaurant with accent lighting, will having a slow shutter speed brighten the picture? How do people get the lush, colorful pictures when it is really dark without the flash?
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Yup. Slower shutter speed = more light. Using a wider aperture (smaller number) and a higher ISO will also help. All three have advantages and disadvantages. I suspect we'll be wandering down that road shortly.
 
I say another lighting meet, but this time do it on location, not in a studio. mix things up a bit, plus that is more of what I'd be interested in doing with lighting :p
 
Joebar4000 said:
Oh, is that all? :laughing

Um. Still, the tile flooring is cool. Gives me some ideas. Maybe I can convince Doug to let me build a cyclorama in his garage.
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Don't let all the complexity in the website fool you. It's not that hard. The main thing is that it helps to have a minimum of 3 lights. (2 for the background and 1 for the subject.) The idea is that you want to light the subject and background individually so that you can blow out the background and have the subject lit perfectly.

As for the cyclorama, it's not required if you're just going to shoot portraits about the waist. You just need a white wall. And, it doesn't have to be fully white.
 
oh it would be fun to do another lighting session...im down...as long as it wont interfere with my work schedule...
 
OK...my first post in this thread....got a new Canon 450D with a couple cheapy TAMRON lenses (don't mind if they get banged up a bit)....and have set off to improve my mad skillz (which do not exist yet).....picking up tips here and there...and from this thread..

is this the proper thread to post shots for critique?....here's a portrait of a fellow racer (from a recent MTB race).....super wet and muddy so i didn't stray to far in the muck but hung around to get my friends after they came in...

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AV 5.0
ISO 200
no flash

I can post more if this is the 'right' place...they're muddier too :)
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Next lighting shoot will almost certainly be at Doug's. He has a hoooooooooge garage (think, 4 car - 2 rows of 2).

Easily deep enough, tons wide enough. We were going to try to setup the white backdrop. And Aris yeah - there - probably quite easy to do, not easy here. Just need to buy a roll of paper and some of that tile board, figure we'll hang it from the joists instead of dedicating a backdrop stand to it, that way we can use the backdrop stand to bounce/absorb light on one side, or even shoot through some translucent stuff.

Only issue is, he's away on business.

I'm thinking if we're doing a strobe shoot, we need to limit the number of photog's, so we each have more like 5 minutes to shoot and set things up, but still don't have to wait 30 minutes before you have another go.

Now, he also has a backyard, so, we could do some stuff out there - it's a totally different set of challenges setting up diffusers and reflectors. If we can manage two models, then we can mix it up a bit :)
 
He's back Friday.

Just realised, if Nick get's off his lazy arse and shows up this time ( :teeth ) we'd have potentially, 2 lighting setups and 2 backdrops, with 2 different transmitters.

If they were far enough apart (probably easy in this garage) then they won't set each other off (much).

Just a thought... white backdrop semi-permanently setup, then I can use my backdrops stands and the few backdrops I have.
 
So I've been bit by the Strobist bug and now I am reverse-engineering light in every picture I see.

This one puzzles me.

Can anyone identify the lighting source/type? The cheekbone shadows are very sharp. I would guess the light is direct, almost on top of his head. What confuses me is there are no shadows under his eyes. Is it being filled? Is it just one light or two? Maybe I am over thinking it. Maybe it's just one spotlight and the shadows under his eyes are there, but not very pronounced. :confused

Note: this is a screen capture from a video, so you're looking at continuous light, not a strobe-lit scene.
 

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That looks like an ellipsoidal slightly to his right and about 20° in front of vertical. I'd guess it's a 4"-er at about 12' away from his head on a small to medium-sized stage. No gel.

<ETA> I take that back. I think it's a par can. The fade-off I see on the kbd is looks more like that and usually on music stages it's just easier to use par cans since they're less controlled and the performers move around. I think my big problem in guessing what instrument was used is I can't see the floor.

How many lifelines do we have?
 
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VeloceMoto said:
So I've been bit by the Strobist bug and now I am reverse-engineering light in every picture I see.

This one puzzles me.

Can anyone identify the lighting source/type? The cheekbone shadows are very sharp. I would guess the light is direct, almost on top of his head. What confuses me is there are no shadows under his eyes. Is it being filled? Is it just one light or two? Maybe I am over thinking it. Maybe it's just one spotlight and the shadows under his eyes are there, but not very pronounced. :confused

Note: this is a screen capture from a video, so you're looking at continuous light, not a strobe-lit scene.
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a honey comb grid might have been used...
 
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