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great shot of helen SS,the white dress is a great contrast against the woods and it works really well in black and white, i would have liked to see more frame to the left i feel its clipped a bit close to her foot, also her mouth looks a little awkward. other than that its perfect. great stuff.
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Thanks dude. Overall it was a disastrous shoot! I had no ideas for poses or anything (this is really letting me down at the moment) and I STUPIDLY messed up my settings, in an attempt to get a lighter background I was using a stupidly show shutter speed, which on the camera LCD, looked fine (I didn't zoom in to check) but when I got home realised that it had rendered 90% of the shots unusable!?!

Even the above is a little soft! I have a couple more to process which should be ok though, one of which has a quite spooky and 'enchanted forest' feel to it, which is quite cool.
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What I would've done to get a lighter background is use Av mode, set the appropriate ISO so you get a decent Shutter Speed, and set it to over expose by 2/3 of a stop using evalutive metering.

Give that a go next time :)

p.s. Don't tell people you fooked up :p it gives an illusion you are a great photographer, just as Ramsey don't let people eat food that's not up to his standard.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
What I would've done to get a lighter background is use Av mode, set the appropriate ISO so you get a decent Shutter Speed, and set it to over expose by 2/3 of a stop using evalutive metering.

Give that a go next time :)

p.s. Don't tell people you fooked up :p it gives an illusion you are a great photographer, just as Ramsey don't let people eat food that's not up to his standard.
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Thanks for the advice, when you say over expose by 2/3 of a stop, do you mean do this on camera? Would this not overexpose her as well?

Or do you mean on my flash? Sorry I'm a bit confused and I'm just rushing out the office so not able to explain myself properly :p

PS. Oh, and the mouth thing, yeah I agree, I have another shot of her looking at the camera which works well, I just need to process it tonight. I'll post them up later :)
 
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I dunno - I don't think there is anything wrong with the background - it makes Helen pop out a bit. I personally think it works well.

I know what you mean about the settings - I've previously done a whole set of shots in manual focus mode whilst shooting for a project - DOH. The advice from most pro shooters is to do a complete reset on the camera before each shooting session and get used to setting the shoot up from scratch.
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Thanks for the advice, when you say over expose by 2/3 of a stop, do you mean do this on camera? Would this not overexpose her as well?

Or do you mean on my flash? Sorry I'm a bit confused and I'm just rushing out the office so not able to explain myself properly :p

PS. Oh, and the mouth thing, yeah I agree, I have another shot of her looking at the camera which works well, I just need to process it tonight. I'll post them up later :)
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I mean the entire scene, just half press the shutter and the turn the dial on the back clockwise and you'll see the "needle" move 1/3 increment at a time.
 
SteveOBHave said:
I dunno - I don't think there is anything wrong with the background - it makes Helen pop out a bit. I personally think it works well.

I know what you mean about the settings - I've previously done a whole set of shots in manual focus mode whilst shooting for a project - DOH. The advice from most pro shooters is to do a complete reset on the camera before each shooting session and get used to setting the shoot up from scratch.
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Yeah I got it to the exposure I wanted in these shots with the slower shutter speed, it was before this that I wanted to lighten it up, as it was literally black :p

Thanks for the tips Raymond, you'll start charging me soon, the amount of help you're giving me :p

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The second one is really nice, I'd be proud of that :)

p.s. my invoice is in the post ;)

btw, when it's getting that kind of light, you really should be using an off camera flash set up with a brolly or a softbox tbh.
 
Thanks.

I was using my 430EX off camera with a Speedlight Pro Kit (kind of like a mini softbox diffuser thing), it was all I had as I had forgotten my light stand and the bracket for my softbox/brolly didn't fit on my normal tripod, so this was very much a thrown together light setup :)
 
SS - Didn't you used to be based in Kent? or am I being thick?

Either way, would wassername (cant remember :p) be up for a shoot of some sort? :)

I'm thinking location of some sort :)
 
I did used to live in Kent. I still do in fact, but I was right on the border with East Sussex so I could easily walk to a different county.

I have now just moved the other side of the border :)
I will ask her. Have you done many model shoots before? Because it would be great to learn from you if you have experience. My MAJOR problem at the moment is ideas for poses and general model direction.

I'm going to buy some magazines and over time keep a scrap book of photos to get inspiration for poses and stuff like that :)

Location stuff is all I can do really as I have no studio. Although I'm going to try and do something with her soon in my living room, just a makeshift white background set up or something.


EDIT: In fact, you just reminded me, I have moved again so no longer in Heathfield :p
 
ScarySquirrel said:
I did used to live in Kent. I still do in fact, but I was right on the border with East Sussex so I could easily walk to a different county.

I have now just moved the other side of the border :)
I will ask her. Have you done many model shoots before? Because it would be great to learn from you if you have experience. My MAJOR problem at the moment is ideas for poses and general model direction.

I'm going to buy some magazines and over time keep a scrap book of photos to get inspiration for poses and stuff like that :)

Location stuff is all I can do really as I have no studio. Although I'm going to try and do something with her soon in my living room, just a makeshift white background set up or something.


EDIT: In fact, you just reminded me, I have moved again so no longer in Heathfield :p
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Sounds good, ask her and let me know - msn is [email protected] :)

And yeh I've done about 5 model shoots so far, looking to expand my portfolio :)

Location is cool though, so it suits me - always amusing the looks you get! :p
 
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