On Oct 13, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Walter Gilbert wrote: > Thanks, William. Those were fairly short exposures. In aperture priority > with an auto-ISO of 1600, the shutter speed set at 1/50. Didn't even think > about using the tripod, but that would obviously be a good idea. Thanks for > mentioning it!
I'm a big fan of monopods for shots under about 1/2 second. Shoot in raw it'll compensate for a world of problems. Every time you change the setup, take another grey card shot. Weird color from the lights isn't a problem with modern gear, however a weird mixture of light temperatures is. If you have sunlight coming in the window and tungsten light in the room, you can get some weird mixtures where it's impossible to color balance the whole scene. Likewise with flash and tungsten, that's why I have straw filters for my flashes, to help bring things into line. If you can get someone to help, possibly holding a 3x5 foot white foamcore board for fill light, that could make your life a lot easier. If you can bring a computer to look at your pictures do so. Shoot for a while, take a break to download and look at what you got. Learn from what you see, then do it again. That keeps both of you from getting too tired, and helps you find out about mistakes while there is still a chance to correct them. Treat the first couple of rounds of shooting and correcting as a warm-up, and make sure your model knows this. Anything that you can get from them will be bonus, but that'll take the pressure off until you're both used to working with each other. Don't try to force smiles. If someone doesn't smile naturally a forced smile won't look any better. Occasional jokes may help, playing comedy albums in the back ground may help. I find that one of the most important things is to get the model to relax. I get some of my best shots when I get my model to "play act", or "make believe". -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
