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Nov 13, 2009 02:13 |  #1

Had a shoot with Caroline last night, here are the first couple that I have worked on. Let me know what you think.

If anyone has some tips on how they get the correct focus at night please tell, i had the hardest time get my lenses to focus. what i normally do is use the auto assist on the pop up flash lock the focus in and then reattach my flash trigger but that only works to a certain range. If some seem soft this is why.

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Nov 13, 2009 02:48 |  #2

Nice the first despite in all these shoot i think the smile is forced.

For focus why don't simply use manual focus?




  
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Nov 13, 2009 03:38 |  #3

i would use manual focus except it was so dark i could not see her through the viewfinder or liveview clearly enough to focus.


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Nov 13, 2009 03:58 |  #4

Why not try a small portable lamp just for help you during the focus?




  
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Nov 13, 2009 05:50 |  #5

.. lol he means use a flash light. point to where you want it to focus, and then turn off af and make sure the model doesn't move from that plane.


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Nov 13, 2009 06:45 |  #6

1 and 2 show perfect flash balance. #3 seems just a bit hot on the flash on my monitor. After hearing the same low-light focusing issue, I'm glad that my only lights are strobes that came with modeling lights! Won't have THAT problem when I shoot outdoors at night!

Nice model and well exposed shots. And the focus isn't bad enough in #3 to complain about.

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Nov 13, 2009 08:39 |  #7

You were obviously near a source of electrical power, so use a clamp on light on your light stand with a 100 watt light bulb in it, or if your light source was an a/c powered studio strobe leave the modeling light in the "on"position. If you shoot in Raw and shoot a gray card you don't need to worry about the bulb affecting the white balance because it will be included in the gray card reading.

Critique. Image 1. The light source is rather hard. I would soften it up and then add a silver reflector to the opposite side to lighten up those dark shadows. Her right hand looks deformed.

# 2. Her hands are "spaghetti hands" and look bad. They are also have the brightest skin in the image. With her leg up it allows the viewer an eyeful of her crotch! Lowering that leg will prevent that.

# 3. Fists look great on prize fighters, football players and wrestlers, but not on beautiful young women. The female should have open flowing graceful hands. Her bright knees fight our eyes for attention and draw them away from her face, therefore the impact of the image is lost. Black slackswould have taken care of that rather easily.

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Nov 13, 2009 09:54 |  #8

I think 2 and 3 are pretty darn good and the smile looks OK to me.


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Nov 13, 2009 12:04 |  #9

I like #1 on the composition a lot. Maybe warm up the skin and burn the edges down to give some extra depth.


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Nov 13, 2009 13:01 |  #10

I like Dan's edit. The color of the original was bothering me but the composition and the background are right on.


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Nov 13, 2009 13:19 |  #11

Chris wrote in post #9008953 (external link)
I like Dan's edit. The color of the original was bothering me but the composition and the background are right on.


To my eye the original is much more pleasing.


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Nov 13, 2009 14:34 |  #12

I like your edit Dan, did you just worm it up a bit and add a vignette?

So it seems the thing I need to work on the most is hand placement, am I correct?

Thank you for all of the helpful comments, it is much appreciated.


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Nov 13, 2009 19:25 |  #13

I like Dan's edit, I was going to suggest to you to warm up the light a bit given the context of the shot and the ambient light. the color of the light on your flash is more of a daytime tone




  
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Nov 13, 2009 20:34 |  #14

Yes, I just warmed the skin tone and added a vignette. Also I would agree among the other 3,000 things a photographer must remember watch the hand placement and no fists.


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