On Mar 7, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
A few weeks ago...
Well, here are some that I took today...
The first gallery is a couple, these are their engagement pics. They suck
majorly cause there is way too much flash in them. But, I guess that
happens when they turn up at MIDDAY (4 hours late and then I still had to do
her makeup which takes almost an hour itself!!) for their sitting. I had to
use HEAPS of flash due to the hugemungo shadows on their faces. Remember we
are in Outback QLD and at midday today it was approximately 42degrees
celcius with barely a scrap of shade in sight. So, I found the only shade I
could and spent the whole time swearing under my breath about how beautiful
the light was at 8am when they were supposed to be there!
Exposure varied greatly, but I think they were mostly around f16, 1/150th
(using Tamron 28-200mm asph. f4-5.6, and also old manual Tamron 135mm f
2.5). Took a couple of shots without flash and the exposure was reading at
f27, 1/750th!! There was waaaaaay too much light to be outside shooting
bloody portraits!
Oh, and they look a bit dark and over saturated on the web on my monitor,
but when working in my lab's colour space in PS they look better...
FYI, there is one shot amongst these that I think is hilarious, I am not
going to point it out, but I am interested to see who notices it first...
Here's the link...
http://www.tanyamayer.com/boothgallery/index.html
Secondly, I managed to rope a model into posing for me so that I could try
out some studio stuff... Before you go looking for them, there are NO BUTT
SHOTS (or fanny or whatever you refer to it as!) here, and no looking down
her top either ok!
http://www.tanyamayer.com/portrait8march04/index.html
Comments, criticisms, praises, whoops of delight, cries of disgust, threats
of lynching or even pleas that fairygirl be cannonised all welcome...
;-)
tan.
