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This is Doc Hendley, founder of www.winetowater.org. He brings clean water to places the UN won't let larger groups go and funds it through wine tastings.
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This is a fan of his at the rally.
Gary
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Thanks twistedframe! A couple cool shots came out of just pointing and shooting haha.
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Very cool. I've never heard of him. Is he a big name? Did you crop or were you that close when you took it?
-Rodger
I shot this tonight just messing around with lighting. Not crazy about the green wall and the fuchsia sweater but liked the light and expression.
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As soon as I saw the picture I thought to myself, "Wow, that's great lighting.." The colors don't bother me, though...but I imagine they might clash a bit more for those who aren't colorblind. ;-)
Thanks Sean! I'm holding that in high regard since I've been a fan of your work for some time now.
This kind of thing always happens, I tell my girlfriend I'm just messing around don't worry about posing, just sit there. I don't get concerned with colors in the shot because I'm just checking lighting. And then when I realize I'm really liking everything else about the shot and that they are keepers except for the color. BW just doesn't do much for the lighting in this shot either.
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You know, that's something I've come to realize--delicate strobist lighting doesn't always translate well to black & white. Sometimes the color of the light (as in a gelled background or mainlight) significantly helps draw the viewers eyes to specific elements within the frame. Every now and then, though, I like a picture better in black and white. Take this one, for example, from the same shoot:
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The color version simply wasn't working for me because her shirt was actually a light blue. However, when I converted it toB&W and applied a red filter in post, the shirt became darker and the picture worked better. You might want to try the same technique.
@ Keith... that IS some good lighting... but I agree that the green background is not the most appealing.
@Sean.. Love the railroad shot. There are very nice lines and an intriguing pose selection, I can see that black and white really would do more for the shot than color.
Took this according to the strobist idea of shooting with white balance set on tungsten with a CTO gelled flash.
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Canon 50D + 70-200 f4L @ 70mm f11 1/100" ISO-100. One 580exII camera right full power shot through roscoluxfull CTO gel and 6" DIY paper snoot.
Sean, love the railroad picture!
Dave, Nice catchlights!! Personally I'm not sure how I feel about both warm tones and cool tones on her face. But that's personally, very nice shot!
Finished up some more senior pictures:
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C&C welcome, right off the bat, I should have taken a serious pose face on the third image. I'm not sure if the lower perspective of the third image lends itself to a happy-go-lucky type of expression.
I'm starting to realize I really like shooting portraits. Or at least "people pictures". They're more interesting to me than Cranberry, PA landscapes haha.
-Rodger
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Dang Sean...
That shot is awesome. Not just the lighting but the composition is phenomenal.
Kieth,
I like your messing around portrait. The colors aren't that bad. The lighting is soft and very natural. It sorta looks like you took the shot while she was watching TV. I agree with Sean, mess around with black and white filters, you'd be suprised at what can come out. Picasa 3 has a very good filtered black and white converter. I play with the white balance and color deflection in Silkypix when converting from RAW to B&W.
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Thanks Chuck. I like it too. It's kind of surprising how much I like it because I skipped over it in my initial review of the images. I didn't catch it until the next day when I took a look at them on my home machine (I had originally gone through them on my girlfriend's laptop). In fact, it had the honor of being the first photo I ever printed on my new Pixma Pro9000. ;-)
That's cool....How's that new printer...we expect a good thorough Sean Setters review....[:D] in a seperate thread...of course
That's a great shot Sean.
Here's a self-portrait I did the other night while bored. I wanted to get shadows from the tree in the front yard but couldn't make it work so I just switched up my flash placement
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Very cool one-light there, twisted. Nice comp.
I agree, nice shot. I like the restricted light area (like when using a grid or snoot), and it works well with your framing.
it was actually two cinimon toast crunch snoots set onto one another (i'd say in the area of 8-9") from about 10-15 feet. and thanks guys.
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Thanks Chuck
I mess around with BW filters in PS all the time the thing about this shot I don't care for in BW isn't the wall or sweater, the skin tones are shadowy and you actually lose the fact there is a difference in light ratios and angles. She was actually watching TV, but the lighting is all strobes. 580EXII in a 36" Softlighter II for the key and a 580EXII on camera with a Ray Flash ring for the fill.
Sean
The tracks shot IS awesome. Great comp.
Keith-
I hope you don't mind, but I thought I'd take a shot at making your picture black & white while trying to preserve/enhance the lighting ratio. I think it turned out alright.
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Don't mind at all. Looks good. It looks real similar to what I had. I think I meant more of, I would have lit it entirely different If I were shooting for BW.
Here is what I got from PS CS3
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Yeah, I like yours better. I tried to enhance the contrast (locally, on her face)...but I like the more typical red filter results you have there.
Keith,
I dont think I mentioned this before, but nice catch lights!
BW looks good!
-Rodger
Thanks Roger!
The Soflighters make a real nice catch. They are almost perfectly round and have the diffuser on the front too. I really, really like them. I have the 36" and the 60". I highly recommend them.
Here's a few I shot last night after dinner and a BIG bottle of pinot grigio. Canon 1D Mk II, Canon 85mm f/1.8 at f/2.2, ISO 400, 1/60th on Manual, WB 5200K, using ambient and one CF5500K through a small umbrella.
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I recently purchased a 14" Lumodi beauty dish. I tested it out this weekend and was quite impressed with the results. Since it was quite cramped in this location, I used the 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5. The second flash firing on the background wasn't used in the 1st and 3rd shots.
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Thanks Sean, Keith and Rob. Your work is inspiring :) Thanks to your motivation I ended up taking one more self obsessed click, of myself. Heres an attempt at B/W
Cheers!
Dev
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devsalvi- Great shot!
Thanks Sean.
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This was simply a test shot I did this afternoon. I wanted to see if I could kill the ambient enough to see detail in the clouds while still exposing the subject (me) fairly well. I used a circular polarizer (to make the colors pop a bit), and only used 1/2 power on the 580EX. However, I didn't like the composition the way it was shot. In the end, I cut out most of the sky by cropping it in an anamorphic widescreen format. I'm still not 100% happy with my pose, but sometimes I just have to let the little things go... :-)
Thanks
I am new to the website and find it invaluable. I am a new photographer purchasing my first SLR a couple of months ago. I have a few shots of my kids. I will keep them small and sourced from Flickr. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
All shots were taken with my Canon XSi.
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EXIF 50mm 1.8II F/8 1/50 ISO 100
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EXIF 18-55mm IS 1/30 f/5.6 ISO 100
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EXIF 18-55mm IS lens F/5.6 1/25 ISO 400
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Welcome trav.cunningham! We're glad you've joined the community. One tip--you can edit your previous posts by clicking MORE-->EDIT in the upper-right corner of the post. I don't think you can delete a previous post, but you might just delete all the textinyour firstpost to keep the clutter down. ;-)
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
-Sean
Took a few shots of my good friend on Friday.
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Canon 50D, 17-55mm f/2.8 IS
f/4.5, 55mm, 1/250 sec, ISO 100
strobist: Canon 580EX, 1/2 power, camera left (high), diffused by a 14" beauty dish
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Canon 50D, 17-55mm f/2.8 IS
f/4.5, 21mm, 1/125 sec, ISO 100
strobist: Canon 580EX, 1/2 (-.3) power, camera left (high), diffused by a 14" beauty dish
Shoot from Wed nite - Damon Marks, guitarist for Lipstick Magazine - Canon 1D Mk II, 24-105 f/4 L IS at f/4, 105mm, 1/60 sec, ISO 400
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i'll give a self portrait a shot, taken with my new Tamron 10-24
11m ISO 400 f/5.6 1/200s
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kinda looks soft on here, not sure why, looks fine at larger resolutions
I'm glad it wasn't too cold to shoot this weekend. Used a Canon 580EX in a 14" Lumodi beauty dish. I was pleased with the results.
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Canon 50D, 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS (70mm, f/4, 1/200, ISO 100)
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Canon 50D, 17-55mm f/2.8 IS (28mm, f/3.5, 1/250, ISO 100)
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Canon 50D, 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS (70mm, f/3.2, 1/250, ISO 100)
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As you should be... Fantastic work Sean. I always enjoy seeing your work.
Dave.
Sean,
In the last shot, something about the clear seperation of subject and the far-ground gives me vertigo. I feel like she's about to fall into it.
& nice lighting in all of them.
Here are a couple of my own:
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This is my Canon 20D IR, with my 70-200 2.8 attached. My affection for the subject probably skews how I see it. She's a little lens shy, so I was trying to get her used to having cameras pointed at her all the time. This one came out better than I'd have expected.
On the flip side:
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I have no affection for this subject. He was a producer at an event I was asked to shoot. I'm not sure why I'm so fond of this one.
The above was with my 5DII and 85 f/1.2.
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Man, babies are so, so, so weird looking. It's a testament to the power of evolution that we find them adorable.
(No offense intended. That in particular is a nice lookin' baby. Far less Winston-Churchilly than most. I was just commenting on babies in general)
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Taken with a Canon 5D MKII, 24-105mm lens, f6.3 , 1/50 sec
Took this as a favor for a freind.
David