You keep mentioning skin tone. Set the white balance to daylight or shade, and it will be fine. You obviously like the decor enough to want to shoot in it, but you want to take all that character out of the pictures. The color of the walls is not going to affect your pictures as much as you think it will, just stay away from Auto WB.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Walter Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, P.J. That's a good point. I imagine I'll open up the aperture and > bump the ISO down to 400 on the tripod shots, and do my damnedest to keep it > at 800 or less on the hand-held ones. I'll be shooting in RAW to give > myself some extra exposure leeway, too. > > One thing I am slightly concerned about is the girl's love of tanning. I'm > not sure how that's going to look with all that yellow pine on the walls and > ceilings. I'll probably end up converting quite a bit to black and white, > and desaturating some of the yellow out of a lot of the color shots, as > well. > > Whatever comes out of it, I'm looking forward to learning a lot. And, the > girl likes being photographed quite a bit, so I shouldn't have too much > trouble talking her into re-shooting some. > > Thanks again for the tip. > > -- Walt > > On 10/13/2010 12:52 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> ISO 1600 may be a bit high for portraiture. Unless you're going for a >> grainy and possibly blotchy look to skin tones. The *ist-Ds is pretty good >> for it's age, but I usually end up converting images shot under those >> conditions to B&W. >> >> On 10/13/2010 1:47 PM, 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! >>> >>> -- Walt >>> >>> On 10/13/2010 12:31 PM, William Robb wrote: >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>> From: "Walter Gilbert" >>>> Subject: Soliciting suggestions: Model and Studio >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> [Insert standard caveats regarding utter lack of experience, here.] >>>>> >>>>> I've managed to get a young former co-worker to agree to pose for me in >>>>> order to get some experience taking photos of human subjects. She's >>>>> actually eager to do so, which is nice. But, given the fact that I've not >>>>> done this before, I figured I'd get some tips from folks who have more >>>>> experience that I do -- which would be any at all. >>>>> >>>>> I've arranged to do the shoot at a friend of mine's studio, where he >>>>> creates western/cowboy art, tomorrow. The studio is, of course, a setting >>>>> where that sort of thing would fit in -- i.e., the floors are oak and >>>>> there's yellow pine on the walls and ceilings. There's not a whole lot of >>>>> artificial light -- mostly ambient, and some very dim light from >>>>> chandeliers >>>>> that he's created. And, obviously, I don't have anything in the way of >>>>> studio lighting to take with me. >>>>> >>>>> I'm planning on doing the shoot in the afternoon, when there will be >>>>> plenty of available light, but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on >>>>> how >>>>> to get the best results for skin tones in an atmosphere that's going to be >>>>> highly saturated in reds and yellows. (I'm obviously going to do some B&W >>>>> work, too.) >>>>> >>>>> Anyway, here's a small gallery of some images from the studio: >>>>> >>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/Ldotters/MacPhailSStudio?feat=directlink >>>>> >>>>> Any tips on how to get the most out of the shoot would be very much >>>>> appreciated. I've already let the model know to be sure and bring several >>>>> outfits and and makeup, and described the room (yellow pine, etc.) >>>>> Anything >>>>> else I should keep in mind (aside from the standard cautions regarding >>>>> model >>>>> releases)? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Model releases are over rated. I rarely use them..... >>>> >>>> It looks like a nice location. Were it my shoot, I would use available >>>> light and a tripod (unless those were very long exposures in your gallery). >>>> >>>> William Robb >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
