AngoXC
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Uni friend of mine had a galah. She called it Harry till they found out that it was a girl - kept the same name anyways as the bird is a bit of a bastard!
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LJG
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OK, exposure is off. Treat it the same as a portrait, spot expose for the face and let the background fall as it may. Yes it'll blow out to the top right but you can fix that in Lightroom. If you try and up the exposure on the face it'll start to show noise, so better going the other way. The other thing is the light is behind the bird, try shooting with the light behind you so it highlights the bird. Is that harsh enough?
Nick53
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I'm a bit curious as to whether the darkness was due to the way I edited it or straight off the camera. I'll see if I can find an original. 100% get what you're saying with the direction of the light, unfortunately the subject wasn't quite willing to swivel and I was on a balcony. Cheers for the hints, very helpful.
Nick, here's a tip, if you have a difficult model to work with such as this one, try using a piece of white paper as a reflector and bounce light back up into the models dark areas. Either that or get a model that will happily swivel on it's perch!
A bit of dodging and burning in Photoshop should be able to fix your Galah.
Where are all the snobbers?
Hi all,
I have a gig for our work's anniversary, it's a big deal and the girl that normally shoots these things has cracked under pressure and they have asked me. Happy to do it as I'll be there anyway.
Now, my question is, I have a 580EXII that I'll be using on camera and I was thinking of either using the plastic Stofen diffuser or investing in a cheap one of these.
The location will be a hall/convention centre so the ceilings will be pretty high.
Shooting with 7D + 24-70 f2.8 and a 40D + 70-200 f2.8 for the speakers up on stage.
Now as I have had limited experience with both devices, is it worth investing time or should I just stick with what I know.
Cheers
Hux
Hi all,
I have a gig for our work's anniversary, it's a big deal and the girl that normally shoots these things has cracked under pressure and they have asked me. Happy to do it as I'll be there anyway.
Now, my question is, I have a 580EXII that I'll be using on camera and I was thinking of either using the plastic Stofen diffuser or investing in a cheap one of these.
The location will be a hall/convention centre so the ceilings will be pretty high.
Shooting with 7D + 24-70 f2.8 and a 40D + 70-200 f2.8 for the speakers up on stage.
Now as I have had limited experience with both devices, is it worth investing time or should I just stick with what I know.
Cheers
Hux
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There's basically no need for a diffuser ever (in my snobbish opinion).
Just zoom your flash all the way in, up the ISO a bit and you're good to go. I've shot in numberous churchs with a 580 with no diffuser and never had a problem. Bring a few sets of batteries as it will use more power than if you use a diffuser.
There's nothing wrong with diffusers, they just don't give as nice a light source.
Awesome! .....Better bump this thread up..
This was actually a focus stack, two images of two exposures each (not HDR), so four photos in total.
CraigS
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Precisely and as I've already told Andrew, AWESOME SHOT.
It would be two different focus points each with the same two exposures taken.
Can't wait to see what Andrew brings back from his trip.
Thanks Craig.....
Just learnt how to stack images, now I'm going to give this focus stacking a try.
Just learnt how to stack images, now I'm going to give this focus stacking a try.
Unlearn
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Thanks guys, much appreciated.
Craig nailed it, I took two exposures for the foreground, to make sure I didn't lose any of the shadows/highlights. Then two exposures (same as the first two) for the other 2/3rds of the depth and blended them the same, then finally I used a plugin (Helicon Focus) to do the focus stack. You can get good results just with photoshop by doing:
Edit>Auto Align Layers
then
Edit>Auto Blend Layers
You might find imperfections that you'll have to fix by hand, sometimes the focusing will slightly zoom the lens which can throw things out (you might need to crop a tiny bit of the border), or something can move in the scene (wind might be blowing etc).
But in this case it didnt do such a great job in photoshop itself. The real challenge here was actually shooting it, the change in focus was so small to get the results that it took a fair bit of concentration just getting that right..
Thanks again
Craig nailed it, I took two exposures for the foreground, to make sure I didn't lose any of the shadows/highlights. Then two exposures (same as the first two) for the other 2/3rds of the depth and blended them the same, then finally I used a plugin (Helicon Focus) to do the focus stack. You can get good results just with photoshop by doing:
Edit>Auto Align Layers
then
Edit>Auto Blend Layers
You might find imperfections that you'll have to fix by hand, sometimes the focusing will slightly zoom the lens which can throw things out (you might need to crop a tiny bit of the border), or something can move in the scene (wind might be blowing etc).
But in this case it didnt do such a great job in photoshop itself. The real challenge here was actually shooting it, the change in focus was so small to get the results that it took a fair bit of concentration just getting that right..
Thanks again
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Unlearn
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Cheers man, I'm living for it at the moment, hopefully the light shows me some love!
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Newts
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Craig told me about the trip Andrew..... so not jealous
Should be amazing, cant wait to see some shots
kl3ggy
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Where was this taken? Is it possible to get a high-res version for personal use as a wallpaper?Better bump this thread up..
This was actually a focus stack, two images of two exposures each (not HDR), so four photos in total.
Thanks!
Tristan23
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Second this. It needs to be blown up HUGE on metallic paper and acrylic face-mounted then hung on a feature wall in a sexy modern house. THAT good dude.