My trick is to use fairly bright lights and the inverse square law for what is behind to leave it in the dark.
On November 20, 2020 11:58:50 AM PST, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >Igor, you needn't let lacking a "suitable backdrop" stop you. Just use >a wide aperture with a decent distance from behind your kid to the >background and let blur create a nice randomly mottled background. > >And, I don't know about you, but in these stuck-at-home pandemic days >I *relish* finding an involved project! Presently I am pursuing the >perfect pour-over coffee (using spreadsheets, weigh scales, >thermometers, and timers) and just today I have added learning how to >make decent protein smoothies to my task list. > >I can safely state that shooting portraits is a breeze compared to >consistently making good pour overs. :-) > > >On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 1:06 PM Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> >wrote: >> >> >> Cool photo, and a nice kid! >> >> Just on Tuesday, I took our daughter (who is in the "virtual mode") >to the >> school, for the school photo. I was entertaining the thought of doing >one >> myself, - but I lack any suitable backdrop. Besides, not doing this >type >> of shots routinely would make it a rather involved project. >> So, I let it to be done by the people who are better set up than I >am. >> I wish some PDMLers were closer. :) >> >> Cheers, >> Igor >> >> >> >> Bill Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:40:26 -0800 wrote: >> >> On 11/20/2020 11:35 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: >> >> Ok, so a sweet looking kid nicely photo-ed but what is with the >silver >> hair? If she were living down here it would have to be purple or >green >> highlights to fit in :-) >> >> Or is that just the lighting? >> >> >> ann >> >> >> She had her hair dyed bright blue a couple of months ago, the colour >has >> faded to a kind of silvery blue >> >> >> bill >> >> -- >> 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. > > > >-- >-bmw > >-- >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. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
