On Oct 15, 2010, at 2:55 AM, Walter Gilbert wrote: > Hi all, > > Well, I had my very first photo shoot today. All things considered, I think > it went fairly well. I did get some good shots, a couple of great shots, and > many that will wind up being salvageable. Here are a few shots to give a > reasonable approximation: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157625167892920/
As you said, you got a couple of good shots. You also got a few that you'll be able to look back on and see how much you've improved. > > Nothing went as planned, and I hadn't the foggiest notion what I was doing. > But, somehow, I managed not to lose my friend (Megan, the model) -- at least > until she's seen the images. There are a few that have clunky backgrounds > that I intend to obscure at some point. Beyond that, does anyone have any > hits or tips that I might use to make the images look better? A) Drink four shots of single malt. B) Delete the ones that don't work as well. C) Learn from what went wrong, and try again. How many good shots does she need? Don't try to save every one that might be salvageable, just try to get a couple of really good shots out of the set. You could spend a lot of time right now improving your technique at salvaging less than wonderful shots with lightroom or photoshop, or you could go out, practice taking photos, so that as soon as possible you're taking more shots that don't need the leet photoshop rescue techniques. If you shoot in raw, you can always go back later and rescue shots once you feel more competent with the camera, and start working on your post-processing technique. That was my theory anyways. Although the more I shoot, not only do I see my improvement, I keep seeing more and more room for improvement, so I don't know if I'll ever get to the point where I feel good enough with a camera that I'd get more out of an intensive post-processing education. -- 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.
