Ok, you have to understand that I can be lazy at times. It's much easier for me ( and I understand its a personal taste) to drop the sat and just accept the bkg result. I really don't find it offensive but again it's just personal taste.
Ok, you have to understand that I can be lazy at times. It's much easier for me ( and I understand its a personal taste) to drop the sat and just accept the bkg result. I really don't find it offensive but again it's just personal taste.
Totally understand! Just throwing up what I saw! I enjoy your posts regardless!
I have to lessen the warmth or drop the saturation a tad when I photograph black skin for it to look realistic. Whenever I white bal it comes out way too warm. I have heard many comments from the black community that they would rather come to me than others because their skin looks real and not orange in my work.
Her skin tone looks great. You can change the wb of the subject independently of the background using LR4. It works great.
I'm not the biggest fan of LR, I rather use C1 instead. One, I know how to use it and secondly the images seem to be a tad, just a tad, sharper in C1. If I was going for a competition print I would put more time into a print but when your doing a lot of prints I will take some short cuts.
Again I really like when someone points out a better way and will look into what you suggest. Thanks for your comments.
Not a fan of the first one. For some reason it looks like its been cut out to me. I love spaniels though! we have a cavalier king charles spaniel. the second one is awesome!
Just some pull backs from a Vid shoot from Feburary. Charles; et al, hopefully me interjecting this won't detract from the awesome photos I see daily posted here.
I have to lessen the warmth or drop the saturation a tad when I photograph black skin for it to look realistic. Whenever I white bal it comes out way too warm. I have heard many comments from the black community that they would rather come to me than others because their skin looks real and not orange in my work.
Well done Charles. Forgive me if this has already been asked but what lights are you running with your setup? Thanks.
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I use Alien Bees and White Lightnings. Throw in a ring light and one of Paul Buffs Ring Flash with a moon unit on it. Modifiers are generally Larson softboxes and a Paul Buff PLM. Mostly 400 or 800 units. I had a photogenic 1200 but it was too much power and I could never dial it down enough to get 2.8 when I wanted to.
I use Alien Bees and White Lightnings. Throw in a ring light and one of Paul Buffs Ring Flash with a moon unit on it. Modifiers are generally Larson softboxes and a Paul Buff PLM. Mostly 400 or 800 units. I had a photogenic 1200 but it was too much power and I could never dial it down enough to get 2.8 when I wanted to.
Excellent choices with the AB's & WL, I'm a fan of them as well. Wasn't sure if they were 400 or 800...thanks for clarifying.
These were all taken with one Canon 600 EX RT flash with no box on it. I needed more power so the box came off and just used the flash. #2 & 3 were lit as shown in #1. Bright sunlight to my left side. Roughly 3 to 4:30.
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This one was in a shaded area and wanted a brighter bkg and the camera was in one hand and holding the flash pole over my head with the other hand.
Hackbone, very nice...well done. I don't know how I missed this thread the first time around...but, thanks. We ought to figure out a way to give you a merit badge.
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Same basic setup and on the first few added some furniture. A doctor needed a print for a magazine cover that didn't have too many distractions so the text on the cover would stand out. I did crop them differently for the mag to allow room for text but these are a more traditional crop.
Used large main, reflector for fill, a timid kicker and bkg lt.
Same basic setup and on the first few added some furniture. A doctor needed a print for a magazine cover that didn't have too many distractions so the text on the cover would stand out. I did crop them differently for the mag to allow room for text but these are a more traditional crop.
Used large main, reflector for fill, a timid kicker and bkg lt.
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The lighting on this series is beautiful & very well balanced! Well done Charles
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These two shots were done with just the reflector. In the first shot it was about 15-20 ft away catching the very bright sun and on the second one it was leaned up against me about 10 feet away. On the first one the sun was so bright the reflector is casting one heck of a shadow. This side of the bldg is a north light situation. No flash on these two.
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Though not a pullback in the sense of this thread, what with my having forgot to actually take a pullback shot, I still thought I'd risk it and give everyone a look behind the curtain of my last project.
The umbrella is an 86" PLM
The gridded boxes are Large PCB boxes.
All the lights were Einsteins.
The Key was at f/8 and the kickers were at f/5.6 (I don't care what anyone says, light meters rock!)
The Subject was shot in our gym, no backdrop - don't have one yet.
I wanted early morning light, but the gates to our field don't open till 7:00am and the coach didn't have the net in the goal until 7:30am, so you get what you get.
Took this one a couple of months ago on my iPhone 4. It was just one of those days that looked incredible. Now I shoot clouds and other stuff whenever I can and stuff it away. You never know when it might be useful.
The top three photos are SOOC. The only thing done to them is convert to jpeg with the exception of the cloud photo which was already a jpeg.
And the finished product. I have no expectation of getting a call from the World Cup anytime soon, but I'm a little proud of it and the soccer team loved it.
So there you have it, 3 ho hum shots that anyone could have taken that came together quite nicely IMHO.
I will post one from today. I do not have the pull back part this time. I will work on that down the road. I am a work in progress and kinda rusty at that. Part natural light coming in from the left, speed light bounced off the window and a foam-core over head. There was also a white foam core to the right to reflect light in. I was holding a white board in front of the table too. Kind of a balancing act. So that is why no pull back on this one sorry.
I will need to try that. I found a tutorial for that but it is for CS6 and I only have CS5. Thanks for the tip I will take a look at that. I will need to do a deeper search for older tutorials.
I will need to try that. I found a tutorial for that but it is for CS6 and I only have CS5. Thanks for the tip I will take a look at that. I will need to do a deeper search for older tutorials.
Re stacking, it'd also be worth checking the macro forum to see what ppl there use - there's at least one free stacker app and I suspect that something like zerene (commercial) may well be better than pshop's. ( was written by a very experienced guy who knows exactly what it's all about)
Personally, I prefer the wide open / shallow dof food shots - often as seen in colour supplement mags ... but each to their own
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Totally understand! Just throwing up what I saw! I enjoy your posts regardless!
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Her skin tone looks great. You can change the wb of the subject independently of the background using LR4. It works great.
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Again I really like when someone points out a better way and will look into what you suggest. Thanks for your comments.
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Lighting:
2 500w shop lights above and behind talent.
3 250w shop lights shooting thru thin board cut-out, to light eyes.
1 750w fresnel off to ( collective) actors left. dimmed to put out about 400w.
1 250w shop light hitting reflective board to right of actors.
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Lights, Shop lights in fact. Long slot cut thru board for lighting to just skirt the eyes of the talent.
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Listening to the talent...
Hoping I don't run out of energy or talent!
Doing that one man production thing.
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Well done Charles. Forgive me if this has already been asked but what lights are you running with your setup? Thanks.
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I use Alien Bees and White Lightnings. Throw in a ring light and one of Paul Buffs Ring Flash with a moon unit on it. Modifiers are generally Larson softboxes and a Paul Buff PLM. Mostly 400 or 800 units. I had a photogenic 1200 but it was too much power and I could never dial it down enough to get 2.8 when I wanted to.
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Excellent choices with the AB's & WL, I'm a fan of them as well. Wasn't sure if they were 400 or 800...thanks for clarifying.
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This one was in a shaded area and wanted a brighter bkg and the camera was in one hand and holding the flash pole over my head with the other hand.
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The lighting on this series is beautiful & very well balanced! Well done Charles
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The umbrella is an 86" PLM
The gridded boxes are Large PCB boxes.
All the lights were Einsteins.
The Key was at f/8 and the kickers were at f/5.6 (I don't care what anyone says, light meters rock!)
The Subject was shot in our gym, no backdrop - don't have one yet.
I wanted early morning light, but the gates to our field don't open till 7:00am and the coach didn't have the net in the goal until 7:30am, so you get what you get.
Took this one a couple of months ago on my iPhone 4. It was just one of those days that looked incredible. Now I shoot clouds and other stuff whenever I can and stuff it away. You never know when it might be useful.
The top three photos are SOOC. The only thing done to them is convert to jpeg with the exception of the cloud photo which was already a jpeg.
And the finished product. I have no expectation of getting a call from the World Cup anytime soon, but I'm a little proud of it and the soccer team loved it.
So there you have it, 3 ho hum shots that anyone could have taken that came together quite nicely IMHO.
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I was going to try to shoot a pull back on my little practice food shoot I was playing
around with Charles but I did not have it all clamped in place and was holding half of
my reflectors. So to shoot the pull back it would have been a collapse mess.
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Re stacking, it'd also be worth checking the macro forum to see what ppl there use - there's at least one free stacker app and I suspect that something like zerene (commercial) may well be better than pshop's. ( was written by a very experienced guy who knows exactly what it's all about)
Personally, I prefer the wide open / shallow dof food shots - often as seen in colour supplement mags ... but each to their own
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