rhuel
10th of September 2009 (Thu), 07:48
Last night after we got the kids to bed, my wife and I were hanging out. I was finishing homework and she was surfing the internet. We head back to the bedroom as usual and she peels off her nightshirt and says, "OK...you get 5 pictures...so make 'em good ones"
I had quite the sinking feeling in my gut...tripod was across the house with camera, all I have for lighting are two aluminum circular clamp-on Walmart lights (one didn't even have a bulb in it), a nightstand lamp, and a ceiling fan.
I have no off camera flash, no on camera flash aside from built-in, no light stands and NO EXPERIENCE as a Boudoir/Nude (or any other) photographer!!!
The most I have done was some low-key shots with a stuffed tiger on the bed...I got decent results, but forgot what the settings were on the camera in Manual mode and I was nervous as heck.
So I set up the tripod and camera, trying to not to get distracted by my (IMO) beautiful wife sprawled out on the bed. I had made a snoot out of construction paper for the smaller clamp-lamp for the tiger shoot and it worked out pretty well, so I clamped it to the headboard and angled it the best I could. After I took a pic using the tripod (no cable release or trigger) with a good deal of blur and overexposure (somehow in manual mode I had Mirror Lock enabled, so it screwed the timer somehow)...she says "That's One" AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!
I fiddle around with the ISO, Aperture, and shutter Speed some and hope (hope is an understatement) I have settings adjusted better. I don't. "That's Two" she chuckles...I cringe.
Luckily she's got a good sense of humor and was just messing with me on the "5 shots" and she continues to let me move stuff around and snap another dozen or so shots of her in different poses. Unfortunately, she's got a bit of a twisted sense of humor and part of the deal was I couldn't go look at the pics that night. I had to wait until the next morning. I didn't like that part of the deal, especially after I was thinking all the pics I took sucked. I went to sleep pretty grim, thinking I blew my chance to capture the shots I wanted to since we were married almost 17 yrs ago.
To my surprise, when I rolled out of bed at 5AM like a kid at Christmas to copy pics off the CF, almost every shot came out really nice!! A couple were EXACTLY the shots I had in my head. Focused where I wanted, blurred where I wanted (gotta plug the Nifty Fifty - it's awesome!!)
I did a little bit of PP in Lightroom and saved as jpgs. I emailed her the ones I worked with for an hour and she really liked them, aside from one which I hadn't had a chance to crop yet, but easily fixed to make her happy.
Too bad I can't share the pics (our agreement and I can't post in G&N since i'm a n00b). I'd love some C&C on them.
Hope someone enjoys my story. ;)
I had quite the sinking feeling in my gut...tripod was across the house with camera, all I have for lighting are two aluminum circular clamp-on Walmart lights (one didn't even have a bulb in it), a nightstand lamp, and a ceiling fan.
I have no off camera flash, no on camera flash aside from built-in, no light stands and NO EXPERIENCE as a Boudoir/Nude (or any other) photographer!!!
The most I have done was some low-key shots with a stuffed tiger on the bed...I got decent results, but forgot what the settings were on the camera in Manual mode and I was nervous as heck.
So I set up the tripod and camera, trying to not to get distracted by my (IMO) beautiful wife sprawled out on the bed. I had made a snoot out of construction paper for the smaller clamp-lamp for the tiger shoot and it worked out pretty well, so I clamped it to the headboard and angled it the best I could. After I took a pic using the tripod (no cable release or trigger) with a good deal of blur and overexposure (somehow in manual mode I had Mirror Lock enabled, so it screwed the timer somehow)...she says "That's One" AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!
I fiddle around with the ISO, Aperture, and shutter Speed some and hope (hope is an understatement) I have settings adjusted better. I don't. "That's Two" she chuckles...I cringe.
Luckily she's got a good sense of humor and was just messing with me on the "5 shots" and she continues to let me move stuff around and snap another dozen or so shots of her in different poses. Unfortunately, she's got a bit of a twisted sense of humor and part of the deal was I couldn't go look at the pics that night. I had to wait until the next morning. I didn't like that part of the deal, especially after I was thinking all the pics I took sucked. I went to sleep pretty grim, thinking I blew my chance to capture the shots I wanted to since we were married almost 17 yrs ago.
To my surprise, when I rolled out of bed at 5AM like a kid at Christmas to copy pics off the CF, almost every shot came out really nice!! A couple were EXACTLY the shots I had in my head. Focused where I wanted, blurred where I wanted (gotta plug the Nifty Fifty - it's awesome!!)
I did a little bit of PP in Lightroom and saved as jpgs. I emailed her the ones I worked with for an hour and she really liked them, aside from one which I hadn't had a chance to crop yet, but easily fixed to make her happy.
Too bad I can't share the pics (our agreement and I can't post in G&N since i'm a n00b). I'd love some C&C on them.
Hope someone enjoys my story. ;)