It is so obviously a portrait, I don't understand why it was shot in landscape mode. The blank space on the RHSide is distracting.
-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Colen <lrc@red4est. >Subject: PESO, while setting up the lights > >One of my favorite photos from the shoot a few nights ago came while I >was just setting up the lights and setting the exposure. Sophia was >just sitting on her stool, biding her time while I futzed with the >camera and took test shots to set the exposure. >The backdrop was white seamless paper, with red gelled strobes >flashing at the back of it. There was a key light camera right, >and a fill camera left. > >There is something about this shot that I really like even though >there was no thought as to posing or anything beyond "is the lighting >correct" when I took it. > >It took a fair bit of processing to bring the color out of the background >in lightroom. If I brought the exposure up properly for Sophia, then >the red totally washed out. > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9427045630/in/set-72157634890993590 > >Comments, as always are welcome. Particularly for things I could do to >improve the processing. > >ISO 80, f/8, 1/80 second > >Exposure +1.65, highlights -51, shadows +40, blacks -11 >adjustment brush exposure -2.49 saturation 60 with fading in >around her and at the edges. > >-- >Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
