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I'd drop that "photography" from your tag too. It doesn't look well that way you have it placed.
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Originally Posted by Mr Fongstarr
think everyone should cause it seems redundant
Originally Posted by DJ bana
like she should of got a full shot of the house or something?Originally Posted by Mangudai954
Originally Posted by DJ bana
I feel like this picture could have been sooo much better..I don't know, I feel like you were too close or something or maybe if the white car was a little further back.
1. WB can be correctedOriginally Posted by Mangudai954
Originally Posted by DJ bana
I feel like this picture could have been sooo much better..I don't know, I feel like you were too close or something or maybe if the white car was a little further back.
Originally Posted by DJ bana
i was manually focusing in low light (which i have a very very difficult time with), there is no flash. it is not focused well (im aware).
the WB is NOT off, this is exactly how street lights should look, sorry.
the subject of the image is not the trees, hence the shadows and darkness in that area.
that is actually a cropped version of the original image- there is a reason it is cropped, there was a car behind the other car that bothered me a lot. i spent 15 mins messing with the crop bc i just couldnt decide which i preferred, so i used the crop bc well, i just couldnt decide. however, the central point of focus is better in the OG. now that i have some feedback, i shouldve stuck to my initial image and worked with that.
here is the original image:
Originally Posted by Mr Fongstarr
^^^Even though that is how the imaged looked, you can fix the white balance so that it doesn't come out yellow and have more of a white look.....unless the yellow is the desired look that you are looking for.
I didn't do anything with the lighting, all i did was adjust the WB. Again, the vignetting simulates light fall off (simulating light sourcecoming from your camera directly and not having enough power to light the entire frame. IMO the vignetting does not work with the light situation. But if itfloats your boat, by all meansOriginally Posted by DJ bana
i like what you did with the lighting, but i dont like your choice of white balance, just my personal preference. i was going for a specific mood, so i edited it the way i saw it.. with the vignetting and shadows on the trees. i wanted to glorify nothing but the cars and possibly a bit of the sky.
thanks for you input, though.
and santi, the white (its actually baby green) car is not cut out of the first image ... its just a tight crop.
im well aware what vignetting is.Originally Posted by RuleOfThirds
I didn't do anything with the lighting, all i did was adjust the WB. Again, the vignetting simulates light fall off (simulating light source coming from your camera directly and not having enough power to light the entire frame. IMO the vignetting does not work with the light situation. But if it floats your boat, by all meansOriginally Posted by DJ bana
i like what you did with the lighting, but i dont like your choice of white balance, just my personal preference. i was going for a specific mood, so i edited it the way i saw it.. with the vignetting and shadows on the trees. i wanted to glorify nothing but the cars and possibly a bit of the sky.
thanks for you input, though.
and santi, the white (its actually baby green) car is not cut out of the first image ... its just a tight crop.
i wasn't trying to school you on Vignetting, I was making direct reference to the impact it has on this particular photo. Since the light isalready concentrated on your subjects (the cars) I feel that there is really no need to bring emphasis to them with Vignetting. You have a good balance oflight/darks, but adding the vignetting to it simulated light fall off. In some cases its good, some not so good. If your background/sky were brighter, Ithink the vignetting would have been better, and would have been apparent that you used it for that purpose. But like I said, since it was already dark, itjust made it look like your flash wasn't powerful enough.Originally Posted by DJ bana
im well aware what vignetting is.Originally Posted by RuleOfThirds
I didn't do anything with the lighting, all i did was adjust the WB. Again, the vignetting simulates light fall off (simulating light source coming from your camera directly and not having enough power to light the entire frame. IMO the vignetting does not work with the light situation. But if it floats your boat, by all meansOriginally Posted by DJ bana
i like what you did with the lighting, but i dont like your choice of white balance, just my personal preference. i was going for a specific mood, so i edited it the way i saw it.. with the vignetting and shadows on the trees. i wanted to glorify nothing but the cars and possibly a bit of the sky.
thanks for you input, though.
and santi, the white (its actually baby green) car is not cut out of the first image ... its just a tight crop.
i shoot wide open, 90% of the time. you can either enhance the vignetting effect, or try and get rid of it. in some cases its not that easy, and others it also adds to the mood of a photo. vignetting is NOT, by any means, a bad thing.
from the looks of you flickr, we shoot completely different styles, so i can understand why your initial reaction was to correct the white balance. and thanks for that, but i just prefer my images to look a certain way
Once you go OCF, you will never look at lighting the sameOriginally Posted by KobeBeef
next time you do a shoot, can you post pics of your setup? i'm curious on what it looks like-- cause i'm about to get into some 'strobist' stuff (bought my wireless triggers, light stands, umbrellas, etc)Originally Posted by RuleOfThirds
more work from last saturday:
so i'm curious on how other people setup their lighting.
thanks.
Nice shooting D. Look like you putting in "work" brah!Originally Posted by RuleOfThirds
Once you go OCF, you will never look at lighting the sameOriginally Posted by KobeBeef
next time you do a shoot, can you post pics of your setup? i'm curious on what it looks like-- cause i'm about to get into some 'strobist' stuff (bought my wireless triggers, light stands, umbrellas, etc)Originally Posted by RuleOfThirds
more work from last saturday:
so i'm curious on how other people setup their lighting.
thanks.Here is my setup for this shoot
*300W model/strobe to models right at 45 degrees, large softbox at 1/2 power
*300W model/strobe to models left at 20 degrees, large softbox at 1/8 power
*150W model/strobe directly behind model bare at 1/2 power