Waiting

rwells

for me to get through taking pictures of him... (one of my grandson's)




Edit: Added some more pics.

(Note: I've not cropped/straightened any of these yet)

nicoleshilliday

great lines and color!

joshhuntnm

very nice. like the wide angle on a portrait. color nice. lines nice. like him not looking at the camera. lighting is great.

Zanotti

Hey Randy, nice to see you back posting here - I have missed your shots.

Nice one here, flash left?

Z

rwells

nicoleshilliday wrote:

great lines and color!

Thanks for the comments.

rwells

joshhuntnm wrote:

very nice. like the wide angle on a portrait. color nice. lines nice. like him not looking at the camera. lighting is great.

Thanks Josh.

I like the perspective a wide angle gives also.

rwells

Zanotti wrote:

Hey Randy, nice to see you back posting here - I have missed your shots.

Nice one here, flash left?

Z

Hey Z,

thanks for your comments.

Lighting:

Two 580EXII flashes. One camera left (key), one on the hot shoe (fill). This setup allows you to use ratios to get the look your after. I like to use about a 4:1 (Canon version) ratio. It gives some level of dramatic light and still prints the shadows.

A lot of people don't even notice that lights are used this way. Good eye.

Paulcao

I like this one. nice shot man

JulieLawsonPhotography

Sounds like my daughters.

I love the architecture around him and the coloring in this

jayegirl

I like the shot and I have seen the "look" in my own kids, you captured it well.

rwells

Paulcao wrote:

I like this one. nice shot man

Thanks Paul.

rwells

JulieLawsonPhotography wrote:

Sounds like my daughters.

I love the architecture around him and the coloring in this

This location matched his clothing pretty well. The blue sky in the door glass goes well with his shorts.

Thanks for looking.

rwells

jayegirl wrote:

I like the shot and I have seen the "look" in my own kids, you captured it well.

He takes directions well. I told him to look like he was waiting for a buss. He's kind of a natural for posing.

Thanks for your comments.

Antonio Correia

rwells wrote:

Hello Ryan. How are you ?
I like all of your shots. However, the ones I like best are the black and white picture and the last one.
The black and white because of the mood, the composition, the way the young man has light on him... It doesn't look you used the fill flash here. But sometimes, with a so light use of it ...

The last one looks to me very interested because you overcome the harsh light of that time of the day and the result is very interesting. And here you do have used the two flashes !
Rather small aperture: the star on the motorcycle ...
How do you hold the flash on the left ? A talking assistant ?:D

Cheers !

rwells

Antonio Correia wrote:

Hello Ryan. How are you ?
I like all of your shots. However, the ones I like best are the black and white picture and the last one.
The black and white because of the mood, the composition, the way the young man has light on him... It doesn't look you used the fill flash here. But sometimes, with a so light use of it ...

The last one looks to me very interested because you overcome the harsh light of that time of the day and the result is very interesting. And here you do have use the two flashes !
Rather small aperture: the star on the motorcycle ...
How do you hold the flash on the left ? A talking assistant ?:D

Cheers !

Hello Antonio,

I know it was a typo, but you can call me Randy , and I am fine, thank you.


The B&W shot: I did use on camera fill to keep the shadows from plugging.

The last shot: I used -1 EC to pull down the ambient light, then used (2) 580EXII units. One camera left (key - slave), on top of a monopod held by my wife (talking lightstand), the other (fill - master) on camera. Both units had Stophen diffusers on them. And yes, a small aperture - f/18.

It appears that all of your practice/use of off camera lighting is training your eye to be able to reverse engineer lighting setups.

Good eye


Thanks for the kind words.

Antonio Correia

rwells wrote:

Hello Antonio,

I know it was a typo, but you can call me Randy , and I am fine, thank you.


The B&W shot: I did use on camera fill to keep the shadows from plugging.

The last shot: I used -1 EC to pull down the ambient light, then used (2) 580EXII units. One camera left (key - slave), on top of a monopod held by my wife (talking lightstand), the other (fill - master) on camera. Both units had Stophen diffusers on them. And yes, a small aperture - f/18.

It appears that all of your practice/use of off camera lighting is training your eye to be able to reverse engineer lighting setups.

Good eye


Thanks for the kind words.

Hello Randy
As I was driving home I just couldn't remember how I called you as I was in doubt if it was right or wrong.
And I was wrong.

I'm sorry if I baptized you with another name.
Of course I didn't mean anything.
But Randy, it was not a typo. It was a mistake.

Thank you for your comments but I do need much much (twice) more practice.
I hope tonight to be able to experiment with my two flashes using the ST-E2 and come to some conclusion (another) about their use.

dawssvt

Very nice shots. I love ever single one of them

pathfinder

Very nice set, Randy. Good to see you in action again.

And everyone always says you can't use the EOS wireless flash control outside in sunlight too! Hah! You just have to know what your you're about, right?

KED

You've never posted a bad shot here, IMO, and I am glad to see you back!

rwells

dawssvt wrote:

Very nice shots. I love ever single one of them

Thanks Dawson, I appreciate you taking the time to look/comment.

rwells

pathfinder wrote:

Very nice set, Randy. Good to see you in action again.

And everyone always says you can't use the EOS wireless flash control outside in sunlight too! Hah! You just have to know what your you're about, right?

The EOS system works well for me...maybe I just don't know what I'm doing


Thanks for the reply Jim.

rwells

KED wrote:

You've never posted a bad shot here, IMO, and I am glad to see you back!

Hey KED,

Hope all is going well with you.



Your always too kind. One day your gonna snap and just tear one of my pics up


Hope you guys didn't think I left, I've just been busy.


Thanks for taking the time to reply.

KED

rwells wrote:

One day your gonna snap and just tear one of my pics up .

Well, you know our history so if that happens, I will have come a long way up and you will have to have gone a long way down - I think NOT!

Busy is a good thing, right? Assuming so, I hope you stay that way.