Post Your Favorite "Off Camera Hot Shoe Flash" Shots

MG30D wrote in post #10866297
- Unlit White-Seamless
- AB800 & Large Softbox (Camera Right)
- 40D w/ Sigma 50mm f/1.4
- f/8, 1/160 @ ISO 100
- Both images SOOC (minus slight cropping)

Nice but these are shot using AB800 and this thread is HOTSHOE Flash!

QueenChatty wrote in post #10866885
Nice but these are shot using AB800 and this thread is HOTSHOE Flash!

Oops, my bad

I guess it would be more appropriate here: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=412392

I'll post a hot-shoe flash photo latter to make up for my lack of reading skills.

MG30D wrote in post #10867140
Oops, my bad

I guess it would be more appropriate here: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=412392

I'll post a hot-shoe flash photo latter to make up for my lack of reading skills.

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Great I will look forward to seeing them.

pantherphotos wrote in post #10787791
I am looking for suggestions to make these better. I tried 2 different textures, with opacity set to ~50-70%, color balanced to make them a little more even. I know some do not like textures; that is okay. But I am looking for advice to improve these; that also includes what is wrong with them.

It's important to keep in mind a goal when applying a texture. Adding one merely for the sake of adding one is likely to result in something that looks awkward.

For example, here are some possible reasons to apply a texture:

• To provide subject separation
• To homogenize a busy background
• To heighten the particular mood or character of a photo (e.g. to accentuate a style the photo already has, such as gothic, retro, psychedelic, urban, etc.)
• To emphasize an atmospheric effect (fog, rain, sunset, etc.)

In other words, your texture should be a conceptual choice. It should follow an idea that you wanted to express with your image.

So: what does "grunge-type" or "crumpled paper" have to do with your photo? What did you hope to accomplish with the texture?

Last ones of my friend Shubo Jiang..

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QueenChatty wrote in post #10867174
Great I will look forward to seeing them.

This one is from a while ago, but still one of my favorite OCF shots using my 580EX II:

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Shot with bare 430exii...

One more of Jennifer.

mickeyjuice wrote in post #10866198
I'd be fixing the WB first thing.

what's the WB ?

I'm new in the photography

ThePirate89 wrote in post #10871257
what's the WB ?

I'm new in the photography

White balance. Its the setting in your camera that matches the colors in the images to the color of the light so white is white and blue is blue and well it goes on from there.

Until you get to purple. See purple is weird. It can't be matched on a camera. The camera looks at all the other colors and then assigns what ever is left to purple. That is the ends and out to white balance.

I'm pretty sure how that works. But you should probably ready a little more about it. If only there was a book all about your camera...

cometzx03x wrote in post #10869054
Last ones of my friend Shubo Jiang..

Shubo Jiang by Kevin Chu Photography, on Flickr

cometzx03 --- LOVE all of these!! Fantastic lighting!! In the first one of this group I keep waiting for him to turn into a giant wolf in that Twilight-ish setting!!

And here is another one from me, since I did in fact fall off the face of the earth temporarily!!