5D3 Owners Unite! Discuss & Post Photos 4!

Hey, the Bel-Air Motel in South Austin! Just passed this last night.

JohnPh wrote in post #17692684

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/y9JL​j4 Retreat mono by John Phelan, on Flickr

That's quite mesmerising, John. I keep waiting for the next wave to come in! Great image.

My model today

Renata, these are great - I particularly like the first one. Do you mind sharing what lighting you used? I really want to learn more about OCF but am finding it hard to find resources that I feel comfortable with.

Annie, this site has been around for a while, so you've probably read it. But I found that going through the "Lighting 101" pages helped me with OCF.

Here it is ... http://strobist.blogsp​ot.ca/2006/03/lighting​-101.html

Cheers, Dave.

AnnieMacD wrote in post #17693330
Renata, these are great - I particularly like the first one. Do you mind sharing what lighting you used? I really want to learn more about OCF but am finding it hard to find resources that I feel comfortable with.

Annie, thank you so much. The first shot was shot with natural light only; I cranked up the shadows just a bit in PP. The second was a mixture of natural light and a speedlite manual 1/16 power just to get rid of some shadows because the natural light was coming vertically down on her. We were in a 15 story hotel with a glass ceiling. I am not good at shooting with speedlites at all, it was more or less trial and error. I set it on 1/8 at first and realized it was a little too much, so went down to 1/16 and that was it. The strobist resource is great. My other resource is "Understanding Flash Photography" by Brian Petereson. I keep reading it all the time and still don't understand it all...But i do bounce my light, rotate my flash at 45 degrees away from the subject etc. Just experiment and have fun

AnnieMacD wrote in post #17692721
That's quite mesmerising, John. I keep waiting for the next wave to come in! Great image.

Thank you Annie

shooz wrote in post #17693385
Annie, this site has been around for a while, so you've probably read it. But I found that going through the "Lighting 101" pages helped me with OCF.

Here it is ... http://strobist.blogsp​ot.ca/2006/03/lighting​-101.html

Cheers, Dave.

itsallart wrote in post #17693510
Annie, thank you so much. The first shot was shot with natural light only; I cranked up the shadows just a bit in PP. The second was a mixture of natural light and a speedlite manual 1/16 power just to get rid of some shadows because the natural light was coming vertically down on her. We were in a 15 story hotel with a glass ceiling. I am not good at shooting with speedlites at all, it was more or less trial and error. I set it on 1/8 at first and realized it was a little too much, so went down to 1/16 and that was it. The strobist resource is great. My other resource is "Understanding Flash Photography" by Brian Petereson. I keep reading it all the time and still don't understand it all...But i do bounce my light, rotate my flash at 45 degrees away from the subject etc. Just experiment and have fun

Thanks both for the info. I'll check out both the book and the Strobist website. In the meantime I'll keep posting!

70-300 @300mm, cropped and worked on (a lot!)

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Ang

Is that the V2 of that lens?

No, V1

Thanks. It looks very sharp