 Melissa |
portraits on the beach
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Kerry L. Walker |
I would use color film and get them printed in B&W. You and your friends may like some of the shots you get in color too. Don't try to get the sunset right behind them unless you want to create a silhouette (which would be a good idea, by the way). Get close and meter off the subject and lock in the exposure before you compose the picture. This is best done in manual mode. This will ensure that you get the correct exposure for them even though it may blow out the background a bit. After doing all this, bracket your shots by 1 stop each way. Anything less is not necessary due to the wide exposure latitude of color negative film. If it gets too dark you can use a little fill flash but try to shoot early enough that you don't have to. Use a tripod. Work fast. The light changes quickly at sunset.
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daryllucarelli.com - Daryl R. Lucarelli Contact Daryl R. Lucarelli Daryl R. Lucarelli's Gallery |
I often take images and sunsets in Orange county and I sometimes can get some nice shots at sunset using flash to light up the subject correctly and let the camera meter for the sky and sunset colors....it is not a science, iffy, but waste afew images by metering the sky behind the subject and adding some fill flash to light up the people an dyou may get the best of both worlds.....also...turn subjects around, facing the sunset befroe it gets to dark, and let the evening colors lighten them up ...use a wide open f-stop so nothing else is in focus and there will be no depth of field problems..... daryl
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Melissa |
Thanks for the advice guys. I'm going to use color film and just develop what they like in either color or B&W, their choice. Silhouette sounds like a good idea too so I've added it to the list of shots. I've never done bracketing before, but it sounds pretty straight forward in the instructions, so I'm going to give that a try. I like the idea of shooting with the wide f-stop so that I don't have to worry about the background for some of the up-close shots. I'm so excited, I hope the weather is nice. Did think of another question as I was flipping through some old photos. I have a roll that was taken at sunset, on the beach (go figure) and some of the pix were georgeous, beautiful golden light on the subjects, however there were a few that were very pale blue and washed out. I wasn't sure if maybe those had been taken with a flash, or why else they might have turned out so washed. Any ideas why and how to avoid this on Sunday night? Thanks again, Melissa
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