 aileen cockburn |
Please look at this photo i need advice on image
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Rebecca A. Steed |
Hi Aileen. First, natural light does not matter if you are going to use an on-camera flash, which I usually recommend not using. Depending on how serious you are about learning the art of photography, on-camera flash gives your subjects a flattened, harsh look. Try this: turn your camera mode (if you can) to either aperature priority or shutter priority and don't use the flash. Get in closer to your subject and experiment with different settings. Natural light is a great thing and it's fairly easy to meter in your camera, because it won't change in the next minute before you shoot.
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Mark Feldstein |
Well Aileen, if you're doing this kind of work on a regular basis, the first thing you need to do is get the flash off the camera or as Becky said, turn it off. The first problem I see in your shots is that the highlights are completely blown out. In the darker portions, like the reds and greens, you not only lose detail but there are some hot spots, like on the leaves. The leaves are also out of focus which is a depth of field problem. The bigger problem is you need to control your lighting. The best way to shoot produce, whether it's flowers or veggies, is to tent it, put some diffusion material between it and the light source whether it's sunlight or artificial lighting like strobes. Use a lens shade to prevent unwanted reflections or glare. No, don't use a polarizer or any kind of neutral density filter. If you have a hand-held light meter to take incident readings (the amount of light falling on the flowers) or if you must use flash, a flash meter to get an incident light flash reading. Now, assuming your eyes aren't rolling around in your head from all this, there's one last thing: You need to increase your depth of field. You won't get it by moving in closer. That'll compound your problem. Rather, you can do this in a couple of ways: Either add more light to the formula since brighter means you have to shoot at a smaller f-stop which will help bring the back of the plant into focus. OR, increase your ISO first to 200 then perhaps to 400 to gain an extra f-stop or two. Take a couple of shots and bracket them and see what err, develops so-to-speak.
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