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I am sad, sad no one participated in the mod challenge.
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rcman50166 posted:I am sad, sad no one participated in the mod challenge. I am, however, pleased to announce that after some deliberation, your submission qualifies as "bitchin." I'll PM you at some point for good times. Until the end of the weekend, poo poo's still open, with Fabulous Prizes going to people who submit something awesome.
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Mar 21, 2014 04:23
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Some new things with people in them:  
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Mar 23, 2014 07:07
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Yet Another Dad Shot. I tried a "rough" theme: grain, beach in winter, pretty casual clothing.
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maxmars posted:Yet Another Dad Shot. I tried a "rough" theme: grain, beach in winter, pretty casual clothing.
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Mar 24, 2014 10:43
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Did some more shooting with my wife. I gotta find someone else who is willing to let me photograph them haha IMG_3072 by kschruder, on Flickr
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Mar 24, 2014 16:04
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Don't shoot in bright cloudless sunlight.
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Mar 24, 2014 16:06
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evil_bunnY posted:Don't shoot in bright cloudless sunlight. Or have someone else hold a big-assed diffuser if you do. :V
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Mar 24, 2014 16:54
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mediaphage posted:Or have someone else hold a big-assed diffuser if you do. :V Or just stand in the shade. If there's a building, there's a shadow to stand in. It's not the sunlight, it's her squinting, squared up into the camera with a harsh side light that does it for me. Yeah, bright sunlight may not be the easiest thing to shoot with but you can make it work for you. I absolutely suck at posing, but I think getting her in a different position and a different angle of light would have made a world of difference. Edit: Here's one of my lame attempts, my sister standard senior portrait stuff in direct sun up against a brick wall. 
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Mar 24, 2014 20:31
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Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep on working on it
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Mar 24, 2014 21:10
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Cru Jones posted:Or just stand in the shade. If there's a building, there's a shadow to stand in. http://neilvn.com/tangents/photographing-in-bright-sunlight-find-the-shade/ has a couple good suggestions. Just a couple of suggestions on your shot, I'd take down the skin-smoothing/ eye-sharpening/ teeth-whitening just a tad. Maybe feather the skin smoothing a little bit around where you'd expect to see shadows and dimension, and not run it right up to the edges. The whole right side of her face (her left) has this hard-stop line that's really jarring to me. There's also a lack of definition on her upper lip, and I'm not sure if that's just how it is, or because of the skin smoothing, but some added definition there might help. One other nit, I can't help but think that her hand looks just a *tad* high, and might look more natural an inch or two lower.
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Did a quick shoot with my triplet nieces  Teamwork by capacity4action, on Flickr Duckjob fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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Mar 25, 2014 06:42
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8th-snype posted:No offense to the other child havers but that's probably one of the best "dad shots" I have seen in a while. Thank you. Actually this thread has spurred me to try and make better pictures of loved ones so thank you all indeed.
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Mar 25, 2014 11:06
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Some casual portraits of friends. The Girl Who Eats by alkanphel, on Flickr  Lao Hero by alkanphel, on Flickr
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Mar 25, 2014 11:35
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Duckjob posted:Did a quick shoot with my triplet nieces 
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Mar 25, 2014 12:45
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big scary monsters posted:This is super adorable. But is that a 400/2.8 they're wielding? Probably a 300. The 400 would crush them if it fell, and make the meteor over Russia look like a non-event. (Also lacks other visual cues of the 400, like the split focusing ring (v1) or contoured focusing ring (v2). And being the size of a truck.)
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Mar 25, 2014 14:23
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Duckjob posted:Did a quick shoot with my triplet nieces This photo is awesome, I love it haha
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Mar 25, 2014 15:04
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Duckjob posted:Did a quick shoot with my triplet nieces This is really delightful.
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Mar 25, 2014 20:36
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mediaphage posted:This is really delightful. Nthing! The seriousness of the "shooter" just puts it over the top.
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Mar 25, 2014 23:18
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Dad shots: I've had a hard time with the exposure on this. Here her hair is blown out a touch, darker and their faces are dim. Not sure which I prefer.  IS, flash, low shutter speed, and panning did some weird things.  And the age-old wisdom: Attractive people at sunset make nice pictures. 
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Mar 26, 2014 15:42
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Duckjob posted:Did a quick shoot with my triplet nieces Just echoing others sentiments on this shot, it's super adorable and interesting.
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Mar 26, 2014 18:52
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Darn right it is. I actually took a picture of person recently, but its not as exciting as that. 
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Mar 29, 2014 22:33
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Congrats on getting do a photo shoot with Skrillex
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Mar 29, 2014 23:20
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I like what you're trying to go for here, but if you're going to reduce her to an outline, I wish it were a more interesting/defined outline. Did you, by the chance, just read this blog post on Inspired Eye? The author there goes for a very similar treatment, and I just saw it drift across my reader this morning.
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I'm pretty new to photography and was hoping I could get some advice on lighting. I'm shooting two female friends in a couple of weeks, a kind of fun and silly multi with lots of bright colours. I'm used to shooting with natural light but it's a no go with this so I'm going to have to get my lights out. I've got three brolly lights (cheep continuous lighting but the bulbs are pretty decent) with two white shoot through umbrellas, one silver reflective umbrella and a bunch of reflectors. The kind of look I want is soft, even lighting with no harsh shadows, I'm just not entirely sure how to achieve it. Any tips on set ups would be awesome 
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rocketpig posted:I'm pretty new to photography and was hoping I could get some advice on lighting. With female models, pretty much the sure-fire approach to making them look awesome is clamshell lighting. One (large) umbrella from 45 degrees above, a smaller umbrella (at 1/2 power or so from the main light) from the bottom at about 45 degrees, try to shoot through the gap between umbrellas. Continuous lights are rear end but you can at least learn the general concepts. EDIT: Like this, sorta. 
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Apr 1, 2014 06:25
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Portrait assignment for this week was standard head shots. I think I missed focus a bit on the 2nd one, and how much of a problem is the background of the 3rd? I don't know how much of an issue that path is, wish I would have caught it when I was shooting.    
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SoundMonkey posted:With female models, pretty much the sure-fire approach to making them look awesome is clamshell lighting. One (large) umbrella from 45 degrees above, a smaller umbrella (at 1/2 power or so from the main light) from the bottom at about 45 degrees, try to shoot through the gap between umbrellas. Thanks, this is really helpful. I'll have to have a play and see how things turn out
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rio posted:
I know this is from forever and a day ago, but I just happened to stumble across this shot while researching the new music scene in San Francisco. I remembered his face from this thread. Small world. http://www.ryanbrownmusic.com/Ryan_Brown__Events.html
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LargeHadron posted:I know this is from forever and a day ago, but I just happened to stumble across this shot while researching the new music scene in San Francisco. I remembered his face from this thread. Small world. Ha - didn't expect to see this here since it was so long ago. I met his wife (Kate Campbell, great new music pianist) when she started teaching at the conservatory I teach at and met him shortly after; they were out here in NJ while he worked on his combined maters/doctorate at Princeton. I needed practice doing those kinds of head shots so we went around town and he bought me beer as payment. What was particularly neat was seeing that on the NY Phil page among the other head shots (although I had re-edited it since as I wasn't thrilled with this initial edit). It was also when I learned to be more careful about what images to show to people, because this was my least favorite picture I took that day - it was kind of an afterthought, and I was playing around with an old Vivitar 35mm f2 since there was a busy road behind us and I had to be close. He ended up liking it the best, though, because of the background or something so I had to try to make it work. I think it if it were a client and not a friend I might have been more careful about my selections and not just had him look at everything I got that day, but still a lesson learned.
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I love these. How are you getting that kind of glowing, washed-out look? I see it a lot with west coast photographers.
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Apr 5, 2014 21:02
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Looks like a film burn composited on top of the image?
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Apr 5, 2014 21:33
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I think she missed her lips with the lipstick...
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CarrotFlowers posted:I think she missed her lips with the lipstick... She must have just been drinking a lot of Kool-Aid
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red19fire posted:I love these. How are you getting that kind of glowing, washed-out look? I see it a lot with west coast photographers. Thanks! I think you're referring to the light leaks. There's a lot of way to do them. You can create them by hand or use presets. These were created using AlienSkin Exposure 5. CarrotFlowers posted:I think she missed her lips with the lipstick... Good eye!
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Spring breeeaaaaak
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