Thanks, David.
You do have a point about taking the character out of the room. I guess
my biggest concern is due to the fact that I've been using auto white
balance whenever I've been there to take shots. The room really seems
to make the camera behave unpredictably when I go auto. And using flash
-- I really have no clue what it'll do from one shot to the next, so I
hope to avoid that altogether.
I'll toy with the white balance. That sounds like a perfectly
reasonable solution.
Thanks again,
Walt
On 10/13/2010 2:03 PM, David Parsons wrote:
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:
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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
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