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RE: Photography - 5/16/2008 3:45:04 PM
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BeckeyZ
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we had sticky bugs in here?
who knew?
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RE: Photography - 5/16/2008 5:31:45 PM
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ezri
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There were a few bugs up top a bit. Skeery up close and too personal bugs.
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RE: Photography - 5/16/2008 11:17:33 PM
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Okay-
This is a first draft so be nice.
I was going for a more artsy fell. I do not think the mother would ness. want to hang this in her livingroom but I'd love to frame it and hang it in mine. I wanted the babe to "pop" to be the center of attention. I could probably lighten up a step more and still be happy. ALSO please understand that monitors are all different. Mine was calibrated using the EyeOne Display 2 two weeks ago so I am trusting that it is right.
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I added the NiK color efex 3.0 midnight filter and then the lighten center filter.
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RE: Photography - 5/17/2008 11:54:36 AM
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I Love both photos but in the monotone version, I would try cropping in much closer.
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RE: Photography - 5/17/2008 11:59:12 AM
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ezri
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I did want to keep mom in the shot. though cropping in closer would make another feel all together eh?
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RE: Photography - 5/17/2008 6:23:01 PM
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ezri
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Agape- yes it came and I am playing around with it. My ADHD stuff is looking at all the different options and going OooOooOooooo which one to play with first!
Then I come here and find one of the moms in the homeschool chat thread posting a few old photos of her and her folks when she was like 3... she scanned them in and the color one them is bad. I have been playing with them too.
If you scroll back a few posts there is a before and after link to a shot of my sis in law and baby neice i did with the new NiK software.
I also played with a few of the shots of the bass player at a concert at a coffee house we went to last night-
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another:
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After(I need to get more light on his face...Maybe later)
hope you have fun with your software!
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RE: Photography - 5/17/2008 6:49:13 PM
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If you scroll back a few posts there is a before and after link to a shot of my sis in law and baby neice i did with the new NiK software. yep, they are beautiful.
I've installed, but that's it... I had 5 programmes, but 1 was a web design, and I didn't bother installing it. I want to play but am not sure my brain is up to it right now...
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RE: Photography - 5/17/2008 7:02:37 PM
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I also played with a few of the shots of the bass player at a concert at a coffee house we went to last night-
try spot metering for shots like that. nail the exposure for the face and let the rest fall where it may. spot metering is so effective you can stay in it most of the time.
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RE: Photography - 5/17/2008 11:44:14 PM
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I also played with a few of the shots of the bass player at a concert at a coffee house we went to last night-
try spot metering for shots like that. nail the exposure for the face and let the rest fall where it may. spot metering is so effective you can stay in it most of the time.
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Thanks- I will look into it. I am not even sure if my bottom of the line Canon d-SLR (EOS Rebel XTi) has the ability to spot meter "in camera". I will have to look it up. I know that when I was reading the comparisons on it and it's big brothers that was something they talked about it missing the boat on. As it was, I was shooting manual and over exposing by 1 stop to try to defeat the back lighting.
My issue with the coffee house was not wanting to use the external flash. It was a small place packed with folks and I did not want to blind anyone, Uh I mean EVERYONE! I was not paid to snap, so it was all on me ya know.
How does my camera hate the orchard house coffee shop? Let me count the ways...
1- High ceilings
2- BLACK ceilings
3- Big nasty reflective windows behind the band
4- Small Small SMALL (the place was standing room only)
5- Book shelves on EVERY decent wall worth bouncing flash off of.
6- *sigh*
7- decades old florescent lighting
8- not enough of the aforementioned lighting.
9- *gag*
The saving grace is that the band was awesome and so was the Iced Dark Chocolate Frappe was just as good.
I did some shooting today, Working the Yearbook this year and was asked to shoot some images for the Senior section cover page. It was a blast- See the un-touched images HERE. I uploaded them so the kids could see them.
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RE: Photography - 5/18/2008 1:10:29 AM
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OLEEguacamole
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if you don't have spot metering, you can walk up as close to possible to your subject fill the frame with the skin (or petals whatever) set your exposure and go back and re-frame and focus. sometimes it's not possible to get that up close but that's the idea. get as close and full frame as possible.
also check your shot as soon as you take it. if you find one stop not enough reset and shoot again. or bracket which i never think to do. don't know if your antique rebel brackets. 400 ISO would have helped and 400 is usually reasonably good quality.
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your "partial" is close to spot, it's 9% of the frame instead of appx 2.5-3% of the frame but that narrows the evaluation quite a bit. i didn't notice if your focus points move, if so the 9% will be surrounding your point of focus.
i do almost all of my shooting in spot. it's get me much closer to the right exposure.
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RE: Photography - 5/18/2008 10:13:13 PM
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Agape- it takes a bit doesn't it? I mean, there are so many options I am overwhelmed. Oooo what to click next? Oooo how bout this one? Mmmm neat! how bout...
LOL!
back to the senior shots- The Senior in charge said she wanted a main image with one or two insets. She wanted the casual chat one as the main photo and then the smaller photos to be the more serious shots... Oh and she wanted some area for them to sign- then the page to have a border of the photo kiosk photo strips.
So far I have played with the main element idea, THIS is what I have so far.
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RE: Photography - 5/24/2008 2:38:21 PM
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OLEEguacamole
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ezri, your photo strips came out great. did you make the strip template yourself?
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RE: Photography - 5/26/2008 9:55:33 AM
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Ezri, do these young people know how fortunate they are to have you do this work for them? It is wonderful!'
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RE: Photography - 5/26/2008 11:00:49 AM
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New Pix
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RE: Photography - 5/26/2008 5:18:57 PM
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ezri
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Ezri, do these young people know how fortunate they are to have you do this work for them? It is wonderful!'
tooney,
the 7 that showed up at the initial shoot had all seen my stuff before. the 3 that had not seen it did not bother to come. I sent out emails to the 3 and included the link to the work I had already done and got an immediate call from the 8th. I found out at a meeting late last week that the other 2 young ladies email addresses are wrong. I have plans to call them tomorrow.
I have to plan a test shoot out at a small picnic pond near the ball field for a senior in our church. she had her portraits done at school like all the others but the basic package 1 8x10, 4 5x7, and wallets was near 200.00. Her folks do not have that kind of money- she goes to the Christian school on a partial scholarship for families with financial need. Her mom said that she was very disappointed because they were some of the best photos ever taken of her. I asked to see the proofs and her fave shots??? OUTSIDE! and what wa the background? Trees. They are going to be easy shots. the camera and my reflector... possibly some fill flash... She is a lovely young lady with stunning red hair. I would really like to do the shots around 10:00am as the originals were done but her only free time is in the afternoon between 3 and 6pm.
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RE: Photography - 5/26/2008 5:39:31 PM
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OLEEguacamole
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practise your fill. the light ON her hair from the daylight would be lovely. the fill will scare shadows off her face.
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