Goin' Wide.....

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[djready1202]

These are so cool, very handsome kid by the way. I especially like #1 and I love everything about #4 (the composition, lighting, the kid's expression is priceless).

[kandyredcoi]

last pic is awesome...are you using backdrops or was the background fixed in PP?

[theveed]

DJReady: Thanks :)

Kandy: That was just a plain wall in our living room, color came from a 550EX with gel and snoot in most cases.

[djready1202]

no prob theeved, by the way...I'm reading your articles on your Simple Photography website and they're great. I'm very new to SLR photography and your articles are so well written, should be a big help to me. :D

[theveed]

Glad the write-ups help DJReady :)

[kandyredcoi]

DJReady: Thanks :)

Kandy: That was just a plain wall in our living room, color came from a 550EX with gel and snoot in most cases.

sweet!

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Hero's Agony


Forgot this one...


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Dark Intentions

[KatiaShermanPhotography]

i am not a big fan of too dramatic effects on kids...I think dramatic lighting and serious kid's face make him look like a bullie or something...but its just me... i want kids to be small and innacent :)

[theveed]

Doesn't hurt to veer off the conventional path once in a while.

[kandyredcoi]

spiderman doesnt cry...lolz

great shot!

[theveed]

LOL... I asked my son to act as if Spidey is screaming in frustration after getting hurt, that's what he gave me, so we went with that...

[bull]

cute kids!!

[YankeeMom]

I like the first series (not too sure about the super-heroes, mainly due to the lighting.) You really captured his "boyness." :)

[theveed]

He's quite "dramatic" when he's wearing his costumes, that's just how he is and a "cheery" lighting won't work well IMO, and besides, he was the one who told me to make it darker like "Batman" he says... LOL.

[theveed]

Here's my 10 year-old niece... Accidental shot as I forgot to pop-up my in-cam flash, rim light provided by the pool's surrounding spot-lights.


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Here's one taken after the swim... Didn't have my flash guns with me, so a pop-up will have to do here.


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[rmr21]

These are fantastic! Love the personality & style of them......and of course the cute subject. :)

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Ikea Window... Paper Towel reflector...

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[JGelks2007]

Really like the series, esp. the first and fourth one.

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[swimchic]

These are so great! Love them!

[moeronn]

Great series and he looks like he's always having a blast.

[javanutsy]

Very neat and nicely done! Enjoyed looking at each and every one.

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Transformers Fever...


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@swimchic/moeronn/javanutsy: Thanks for visiting :)


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Tribute to the King

[djready1202]

Awesome tribute to the King of Pop Theveed, now all he needs is the white glove and it would be perfect.

[theveed]

Thanks DJ... Too bad I don't have one lying around the house yesterday :(


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[javanutsy]

Awesome tribute to the King of Pop Theveed, now all he needs is the white glove and it would be perfect.

Wow, very nice! I was thinking the same, white glittery glove, and maybe white shirt...

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[JensVad123]

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Awesome!!! Where can I get a mask like that?? LOVE spiderman!

[theveed]

Jens: It's only for kids actually. My son's head is a bit too big to close the velcro back.

They do sell cool ones on ebay though... :D

http://************/nxp889 << 95USD

[Soni]

very nice photos...I really love them all.

[TamEric]

lol these are awesome

he looksl i ke he has some serious personality

[theveed]

Thanks for dropping by Soni/TamEric :)

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It''s Raining Gumballs

[terumi]

wow I LOVE them all. what great shots!! gorgeous kids, and that watch is sick =P I adore the simplicity of all the shots, thx for sharing!

[theveed]

Thanks Terumi.


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[terumi]

ok. where'd you get the watch? :cool:

[theveed]

Toys R' Us.

http://www.10bentoys.com/ben-10.html :D

[terumi]

lol domo =D

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[plattepro]

Awesome - loved looking at all of them! Esp 'You're Next'

[zelseman]

These are all really good. You have a very large selection of styles to choose from.
You are going to love these shots when he graduates high school and college and gets his own family.

[theveed]

Thanks for commenting...

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It's fugly bokeh moments like this that makes me yearn for that 85 f/1.2 grr... None of my existing lenses have good bokeh.

EF 50mm f/1.8 Mark II
On-cam Flash + 1/2 CTO Gel
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/2.2
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 1000

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A little different orientation this time

[l330n]

These are awesome shots. Great stuff, thanx for sharing.

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[raypix813]

Nice series. Cute kids

[Honduh Chicken]

last pic is awesome...are you using backdrops or was the background fixed in PP?

I love the lighting and the comp! The color is really good too. F'it, I like everything about it.

[theveed]

I appreciate the visit/comments for my son :) thanks

[terumi]

haha!! the woody shot is great. awesome shot

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[Arkon]

Love 3 & 4. Very clean shots.

[Honduh Chicken]

Hey the headset one you just posted.. can you give the details on this shot? The Exif was stripped. Thanks!

[theveed]

Arkon: Thanks
@HC: 1/250 f/5 @ ISO100

One Canon 550EX @ 1/8 with 10deg grid, camera high right. Triggered with Flashwaves 2 Triggers (http://*******/4c3Rw).

One Cobra D650 @ 1/16 bare flash at 50mm camera left, flagged to prevent light spilling to background. Triggered with CTR-301P (optical slave)

[biffbyun]

david, excuse the noob question, but how do you get your backgrounds perfect white and black? is it done in post processing or do you turn up the power of the background light? i keep seeing the wrinkles in my pics.

[theveed]

Biff: Hi, I use my living room's wall, not a cloth or paper, so wrinkles are non-existent.

But in order to get really dark background, you just have to make sure that the background is about 3 stops darker than your midtone (subject), conversely, you have to overexpose the background by 2 or 3 stops brighter than midtone.

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Bought a new playrug from Ikea... This was shot in the bus on our way home, the light from a passing truck provided the nice short light.

[Fabian9931]

hey great pics by the way. i have a question about your last post. I totally understand your explaination about the 3 stops under/over but after that part is figured out, now its the flash settings. lets assume its off camera. do you just try a setting, for ex. 1/8 then see if you need more or less and go from there? do you use anything on the flash? disfuser of some sort? zoom?

[vinunleaded]

beautiful work. Did you crop those pictures in photoshop or theres a camera that can do that?

[theveed]

Vin: Thanks for looking.. Cropped in Photoshop as my camera doesn't have 16:9/18:9 modes. I just shoot with cropping in mind so I leave more space at the top and bottom for cropping :)

Fabian: Hmm, in many cases, I use a shoot-through umbrella if indoors. For post #62 (the one with the ear-gadget light) was shot with a grid attachment, while shots like post #60 (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=8558744&postcount=60) was shot with an on-cam flash via ETTL bounced around walls and stuff.

Personally, I take a shot without the flash on to see if the ambient has been "killed" to get a dark background, then turn on the flash and move the subject as far from background as possible to make sure the BG doesn't get lit. For bright BG, I often just light for the background (overexposing the BG) then I add a diffusing scrim in front of the subject to reduce subject illumination, I find that easier than setting up a background light and a main light.

[Lunajen]

Great series. Love your style.

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Thanks Lunajen....



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[Honduh Chicken]

David, you have some beautiful kids.

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HC: Thanks :) :)

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[Fabian9931]

then I add a diffusing scrim in front of the subject to reduce subject illumination, I find that easier than setting up a background light and a main light.

hey what do you mean by diffusing scrim?

I tried today to take some pics of my daughter with off camera flash (just one 430ex) and I was trying to achieve the blacked out BG. I set my flash off and took a pic and everything was dark (black black). then i turned on my flash on my stand and took a pic of my daughter standing away from the BG about 10 ft. and my flash still illuminated the BG. I bounced the flash off an umbrella towards my daughter. camera left. I turned down the power and then my daughter wasnt getting the exposure i was looking for. if i turned it up then the background was lite up. maybe i need her to be further away from the background? I also tried turning it from manual to ettl and i wasnt successful. maybe im not understanding my flash settings? for ex. ettl...

[theveed]

Made this for you, hope it clarifies some things.

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First image (upper left) is the scrim/diffuser setup. The light that passed through the scrim is diffused and has less intensity than the light hitting the background.

Second image (bottom left) is how you use a flag to block light from hitting the background.

Third and fourth image basically describes the inverse square law. The closer the subject is to the light, the faster the light fall off afterwards, so assuming both image 3 and 4 receives the same exposure on the SUBJECT, image 3 will have a darker background than image 4.

However, Zach Arias (http://www.zarias.com/?p=101) << (click) will explain it much better :)

[Fabian9931]

Made this for you, hope it clarifies some things.

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First image (upper left) is the scrim/diffuser setup. The light that passed through the scrim is diffused and has less intensity than the light hitting the background.

Second image (bottom left) is how you use a flag to block light from hitting the background.

Third and fourth image basically describes the inverse square law. The closer the subject is to the light, the faster the light fall off afterwards, so assuming both image 3 and 4 receives the same exposure on the SUBJECT, image 3 will have a darker background than image 4.

However, Zach Arias (http://www.zarias.com/?p=101) will explain it much better :)

wow thanks for the explaination and taking the time for that. awesome! now is a scrim something you have made of some material or you purchased it? how will it stand on its own?

[theveed]

I use a generic version of this << (http://www.amazon.com/Lastolite-Triangular-Shaped-Translucent-Diffuser/dp/B000GLHDBC).

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[Kerilynn]

I love all of these pics! Great imagination

[theveed]

Thanks Kerilynn :)


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EXIF: 1/80 - f/4 - ISO 1000
Lighting: On-camera flash with 1/2 CTS Gel @ 1/4 power, fired to angled bridge support for main light.
Post: Color/Contrast converted in Bridge ACR
Models: Marcus and Nicole - Models were paid with wafer ice-cream.

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[abs01]

Really great shots!

[theveed]

Thanks :)

[gyoung06]

These are really nice!

[theveed]

Thanks gyoung06 :)

[Kristy]

#4 of the first series really grabs me. :) Nice work and framing.

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Hmm, didn't know there's an 8-image/thread limit in POTN, sorry mods/admin.