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S8NSSON · « **Reply #240 on:** July 26, 2008, 08:56:06 AM »

I bought some studio lights with my new 40D and have been playing around with them. It's going to take some practice, but I think i'll be able to get some great shots. I'd like to make a soft box and take some drops into water shots eventually.

The lights are two 500watt halogen studio lights with umbrellas in front of them to soften them up. They are sitting on either side of my daughter, each one is about two foot away.

My daughter: there is no backdrop in this picture. Just whatever was in my room at the time.

The lights are two 500watt halogen studio lights with umbrellas in front of them to soften them up. They are sitting on either side of my daughter, each one is about two foot away.

KnacK · « **Reply #241 on:** July 26, 2008, 10:13:06 AM »

I absolutely love the shots that new camera takes

S8NSSON · « **Reply #242 on:** July 26, 2008, 10:24:53 AM »

This was the setup.
Kind of goofy, but I was really doing focus tests on all my lenses. I just told her to jump in and pose when I was done testing.

Spot metering owns. She would be really dark if the camera would have done any kind of evaluative metering with the bright umbrellas in that shot.

KnacK · « **Reply #243 on:** July 26, 2008, 06:11:35 PM »

One thing I just noticed in the first shot of your daughter was that the point of focus is right in front of her face, possibly her nose,as I see her eyes are slightly blurry.

But geez, that's still a great shot.

S8NSSON · « **Reply #244 on:** July 26, 2008, 08:19:54 PM »

Yes, very true.
I was shooting at f2.8 from a close distance with autofocus on the center point.
It picked up focus on the end of her nose. Because of the high fstop and bokeh of this lens, the area of sharpness is very small.

I was getting around 1/200 sec shutter so I could have dropped the fstop a bit to increase the focal zone.

I'm still learning how to think through all of this on the fly. Only time and practice will help that.

On another not...
Notice how her hair is not pulled back? A lot of pictures set focus on her hair which was worse. If i'm going to shoot wide open like this I have to have her hair pulled back. Or I need to get the lens closed down.

KnacK · « **Reply #245 on:** July 26, 2008, 08:44:56 PM »

Can you tighten up the spot focus?

QED · « **Reply #246 on:** July 27, 2008, 08:32:53 PM »

Here is a series of four images I took, scanned and assembled in Photoshop... My first attempt

Took these (I believe) off the coast of Nice, France.

Justinph5 · « **Reply #247 on:** July 27, 2008, 10:51:50 PM »

s8n, I like that head shot. The only things is that her left side looks a bit wierd since its further away, but brighter, I would try pulling that light back further, or giving it less power. What you could also try for an effect is bringing the left light more around to the back, so her hair gets backlighting, since it looks like you'll have enough bounce from the walls to fill in the darker parts of her face in the front too.

Gosh I wish I had enough to get model lights. :/

iEATnoobs · « **Reply #248 on:** July 28, 2008, 07:55:07 AM »

Couple recent shots of my jeep...

KnacK · « **Reply #249 on:** July 28, 2008, 08:00:24 AM »

Nice cage.

Was that a bolt up or was it built in place?

iEATnoobs · « **Reply #250 on:** July 28, 2008, 08:09:15 AM »

That cage was built in place, and probably took the most work.

iEATnoobs · « **Reply #251 on:** July 28, 2008, 08:10:22 AM »

Also wanted to post another pic, most of you probably have seen it before

KnacK · « **Reply #252 on:** July 28, 2008, 08:22:19 AM »

That is a great pic, but then I'm partial to farm animals.

coLa · « **Reply #253 on:** August 01, 2008, 12:56:48 AM »

s8n, maybe you should try bouncing the light off the umbrellas instead of through them. just a thought. you could even bounce it off the walls or ceiling. kinda like the warm white balance in those pics. they fit it perfect.

my internet is still not back on yet... i have an appointment for tomorrow morning. while uploading the storm pics to my computer i saw that non of them came out too great, and you can't even tell anything big was really going on. but i do have some other shots i've taken in the past few days to post up.. hopefully i get everything sorted out with my net/cable tomorrow. i'm dying without it. i've watched every movie i own, and then some, atleast once. heh.

coLa · « **Reply #254 on:** August 01, 2008, 09:45:14 AM »

S8NSSON · « **Reply #255 on:** August 01, 2008, 09:55:00 AM »

sweet bat!!!
love it

coLa · « **Reply #256 on:** August 01, 2008, 10:27:38 AM »

yah we found it the day after the hurricane, at a house my mom and her boyfriend are thinking of buying.

KnacK · « **Reply #257 on:** August 01, 2008, 11:30:26 AM »

great job!

The bottom 3 pics are fantastic.

eradicator · « **Reply #258 on:** August 01, 2008, 12:32:39 PM »

The Mustang pic above the bat is ohhh sooo sickk.

BLONDIE · « **Reply #259 on:** August 01, 2008, 05:09:23 PM »

not the pet goats again rofl what were their names?