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A second run at a file from the archive - this time using CS3.
The first time I used Lightroom in OS-x.
Please see Local Birds & Wildlife 2013 set www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157632400771125/
Simply Making Christmas... easier said than done. This year I'm branching out from painting to a faux #gingerbread #putzhouse thanks to @lucyf7b There are big #learningcurves but its fun.
This indulgent project was therapeutic. My first cardboard #putzhouse sculpture made with a house pattern and tree tutorial by @lucyf7b and adapted with many embellishments of my own.
A good friend asked, "Will it be for sale?" The answer is NO for many reasons. Artists constantly undervalue their work. This piece took me many days to create for a #zoom #Christmas #familycelebration
There are many delightful artists and designers out there. I reccomend finding an artist whose story compels you to invest in them. @jillrenaedesigns takes 30-40 hours to hand make all of her houses. That's $3.95/hr for her highest price house on etsy. What do you deserve to be paid per hour?
Lighting Suggestion- One thing to avoid is shooting with two very different temperatures of light. in these shots it's flash and the orange sodium vapor lighting. I shot these images in RAW and played with them slightly in L.R. While the skin looks near lifelike; the orange, blue, pinkish contrast didn't work for me. Now; while It is possible to further tweak in PS5, or use a gel when shooting, I felt that B/W would be acceptable.
If you would like to see angle 1, look at the strangers set.
How about some thoughts?
Thank you,
Damian
From a test shoot at my Studio Portraiture class. Model here is Megan, one of my classmates nieces. BTW I'm with Anthony on this one- any disrespectful comments will be deleted.
The lighting are all Bowen flashheads, two behind with honeycombs at 45 degree angles for rim lighting on the hair, and one softbox in front. The softbox is set for f8, and the other teo are about 1 and half stops below.
In Photoshop I've slightly tightened the contrast, turned it monochrome, and used colour balance to simulate a dutotone effect.
BTW I've kept the flare from one of the flashes in on this one, as I think it adds an interesting detail to the pic
I've found that I have to hold my finger over the the little light meter thing that controls how long the shutter stays open. :)
learning, learning, learning... slowly trying to add a little skill to that moment before i point and shoot
Planted these in August, a little late, but they got mature enough to harvest in January! small but tasty!
6 x 30 second image combined with Startrails action in Photoshop. Added one Dark Frame to remove noise. Attempting to combat Amplifier glow and noise with shorter exposures and combining the 6 shots. Unfortunately my DSLR says it is overheating and stops processing images after only 3 minutes. I think I may need a faster Compact Flash card.
learning, learning, learning... slowly trying to add a little skill to that moment before i point and shoot
I've been admiring TTV for a long time now, and decided to give it a try.
Here are my first attempts.
This may not be for me because I got motion sickness! Seriously. I had to sit down for a couple minutes. And then Ollie, who watched me take forever to make it, grabbed the contraption and ran out into the yard with it for an exciting game of keep-away!
The first nuthatch I've seen in ages... knew they had nested in the woods but hadn't spied any since. These are from my first trip out with the 70D, focus not quite perfect - think that is me, not the camera! (managed other sharp shots later in the morning of other subjects) but these seem to have a sort of 'watercolour' feel to them that I rather like.
Please see Local Birds and wildlife set 2013 www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157632400771125/
Please see Local Birds & Wildlife 2013 set www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157632400771125/
Please see Local Birds & Wildlife 2013 set www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157632400771125/
From a test shoot at my Studio Portraiture class. Model here is Megan, one of my classmates nieces. BTW I'm with Anthony on this one- any disrespectful comments will be deleted.
The lighting are all Bowen flashheads, two behind with honeycombs at 45 degree angles for rim lighting on the hair, an additional honeycomb light pointing at the white background, and one softbox in front. The softbox is set for f8, and the other two are about 1 and half stops below, and the one on the background is one stop over.
In Photoshop I've slightly tightened the contrast, turned it monochrome, and used colour balance to simulate a dutotone effect.
BTW I suppose I could crop out the floor and the cables, etc, and do a straight up and down head and shoulders crop, but I do like the angle of this one.
Hereby hangs a tale virtualspacetravel.blogspot.com/2024/10/small-culinary-er... virtualspacetravel.blogspot.com/2024/10/learning-curve.html
A good story!
“Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of demons”
~ Aldous Huxley [English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963]
From a test shoot at my Studio Portraiture class with Kensia in front of the camera.
The lighting is a Bowen flashhead with a snoot, shot from the front, slightly right and sightly above, with a white reflector from the left to blanace out the shadows The light's set for an f8 exposure. There's also a background light, one stop below.
When you are just learning how to use a camera, sometimes you end up with horrible ghosts of images that you can sometimes tease into something. This being an example.
Apparently it's actually quite common to have difficulty with the focus on the Agfa Ansco I got in December. So that's my excuse for the fuzzy, and not my lack of understanding the new camera.
Please see Local Birds & Wildlife 2013 set www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157632400771125/