 Jodi A. Birnbaum |
My pictures look flat Since I see so many amazing pictures out on this website, I am hoping that someone can offer me some brutal constructive criticism. Please take a look at the photos on this site and make suggestions as to how to work with or change my lighting. I am working in a room that is 12x15 and have two windows (one facing east, the other south - behind my backdrops). I have a strobe light (B800 from alienbees) and the flash on my camera, and typically I cover the window behind my subjects but a couple of them I left the window exposed which created a very bright white background. I am just not sure how to setup my room for the best effect possible. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciate. Thanks!!!
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Jodi A. Birnbaum |
I am having problems with my upload, I apologize. Can you please take a look at my gallery and give advice on any of the pictures. Thanks again!
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Slim Brady |
I'm sorry but I don't shoot studio. I guess if its cold and stormy you have to. I would like to offer that when shooting in natural light, that some place always have flat lighting. I have shot at a few hotels where the lighting was always flat (sort of dull and colors like blue and green didn't pop). Thank goodness for PS. Now before I started shooting myself, I did work in studios, and the set-up of lighting took quite some time-lots of test shots and different angles of light. A very expensive ordeal, but they had no other choice because of weather conditions. Some of them liked working in the studio(even in summer) because they would have total control over the light. What kind of euipment do you have? Maybe I could ask one of my studio buds.
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Sandra |
Hi Jodi, If you go to Just Studio Photography, www.betterphoto.com/forms/QnAdetail.php?threadID=22541 There are some very wonderful and caring people on that thread that I know would be glad to help you. Go there and ask this question and someone will help you.
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Slim Brady |
Just a joke so everyone knows: Are looking at the pictures from the side or straight on. They are printed on paper of coarse there flat.
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Craig m. Zacarelli |
maybe your subject is too close to the background? Craig.. NOW THAT WAS FUNNY! Good luck Jodi.
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Craig m. Zacarelli |
also Jodi.. what lens are you using and what mode are you shooting in? Have you tried either using a light meter or just plain old metering the shot first? And are they RAW files or shot in Jpeg? And how do you process them? Craig-
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Jodi A. Birnbaum |
Thanks for all of your responses! This is such a great group on this website. I am going to answer all of the questions in one here, but I am using a 30-75mm lens in manual mode (where I typically use 5.6 and 250 shutter speed). I do meter off of the subject, for the most part, but I think I need to be more diligent about it. I only use the 800 strobe and the flash on my camera to activate the strobe. The files are in jpeg format. I obviously don't have the technical aspects down, so hopefully I am answering the questions correctly.
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