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Post by juanita on Sept 25, 2009 12:53:56 GMT -5
It urned out to be a really nice day and the shower went well...but for the photography-not all was peachy...Everything is as is except for resizing/cropping...Shot manually so I kept forgetting to change settings-probably would of been better to just take the p&S. What could I have used or done differently? Mommy to be...     |
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Post by OrcaBob on Sept 25, 2009 21:04:12 GMT -5
For on all of them... Color temperature. They're all on the yellow/green side. If you shot in RAW, it's a very easy fix.
And the third pic, of the mom in the banner, is a lot of blowout. I've found that using a flash unit for fill helps in the harshest light. It seems paradoxical, but the harsh daylight shots are the ones that most need fill light, whether by reflector or flash. Those shots tend to have the greatest dropoff from sunlight areas to shadow. If you're metering for the daylight, the shadows are too deep. And if you meter for the shadow (as you did in pic3), you blow out most everything but the shadow.
Sometimes you want the blowout, but sometimes you don't.
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Post by NCPhotoTrekker on Sept 26, 2009 6:20:16 GMT -5
This is a bit out of my realm of expertise, but I agree totally with Bob in his assessments. What I have found beneficial when doing portraits on the move (similar to what you are doing here), I will shoot in aperture priority. My main concern is the depth of field for the shot. I let the camera meter determine shutter speed based on evaluative metering. I will also use a diffused flashgun either directly aimed at the subject, or aimed up slightly just for a catch light in the eyes.
Check your LCD after the shot and determine if the exposure value needs to be adjusted, or if a change in flash output wold be needed. As Bob said, shoot in RAW so that you can coax the exposure since you don't have the time to make precise adjustments on the fly. White balance can be adjusted in post processing, but you can also use something like an ExpoDisk to set your custom white balance before the shoot if you expect lighting to be constant for the duration.
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Post by OrcaBob on Sept 30, 2009 6:37:14 GMT -5
Yep. What Greg said. Shooting in RAW is especially important when you're changing shooting environments as you were at this shower, going from plain daylight to the shade of a tent and then into the shadow of a tree. White balance can shift from scene to scene and RAW allows you to more easily tweak those settings.
I once had a massive brainfart and I shot JPG at a corporate shoot where each person was shot in three different environments. The post-processing was a real handful. Luckily, on that day I shot only five or six people.
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