Thanks Paul! But they could've been so much better, I thought... BTW, what did you think of the studio ones?
tan. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 March 2004 5:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Somebody asked about *istD portrait pics? They look very nice on my monitor. Nice range of shadow and highlight. Good job. Attractive couple. 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. >
