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Horse & Boy Exposure Lesson

© Jay A. Grantham

Horse & Boy Exposure Lesson

Uploaded: November 07, 2005

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Pete H November 07, 2005

Hi Jay,

1) f/3 is not a good choice here as you have limited depth of field. You can see the young man is not well focused.
2) Increse your ISO so you won't have to shoot so slow.

Technically, this is a rather difficult shot to expose properly.
There are several ways as one poster has already mentioned, dodge & burn.
You can also shoot two shots sequentially, expose for the boy and the next one, expose for the horse..sandwich the two images and erase away the overexposed parts.

If ya really want to get crazy, shoot with a off cam flash that has barn doors to block the flash from striking the horse and allow the flash to strike to boy.


May your light be pure,

Pete #339994


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