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    Post your best candle light shots



    Your best shots, lit solely by candles.


    I'll start with a series of 3 from yesterday. Who says learning has be dull?


    T1i + 50mm f/1.8 @ f/1.8, ISO 3200, 1/80, 1/60, and 1/125


    [img]/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.28.63/smoke0.JPG[/img]


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    Nice set! Love the 1st and 3rd photo. 1st - Shows so much joy in the eyes! 3rd - Love the DOF.
    Cheers!
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    Quote Originally Posted by MrGreenBug
    Nice set! Love the 1st and 3rd photo. 1st - Shows so much joy in the eyes! 3rd - Love the DOF.

    Nifty-fifty for the win.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidEccleston


    Nifty-fifty for the win.
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    I'd love to get one of those nifty-fifty soon. []
    Cheers!
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    The last one, where the smoke is rolling off her hand--- I love that.





    Photos by candles are something special. Something about the little island of light, it makes the moment captured seem so much more personal.








    Mine is a bit less wholesome:





    Getting lighting right for this shoot took a lot of futzing. Candle
    light in total darkness was the look I wanted, but I wouldn't have had
    the dynamic range to shoot it without losing highlight or shadow. I
    ended up having to be tricky with some small lights to garner just
    enough non-directional fill light to avoid losing all the shadow detail.



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    Perhaps I shouldn't have said "solely by candle light", just mostly, or something. Youdefinitelygot a better image with a touch more light thrown in.
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    This is my first post, but I saw this thread after reading a while and
    decided that I should upload some pictures I recently took in a room
    lit solely by a set of scattered candles. Hopefully I'm uploading these photos correctly.


    All are shot with a 40D and Sigma 30mm f/1.4 at ISO 3200. The last shot is mostly candle light but I think the first three are entirely candle light and all were hand held. I often turn my 3200 shots to black and white. I'm not a huge fan of the grain pattern it produces, but at least this way it avoids the colour problems. All feedback is welcomed.


    The full set from the night is here on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yonirab/sets/72157623226495874/


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    f/1.4, 1/25, ISO 3200





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    f/1.4, 1/40, ISO 3200





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    f/1.4, 1/25, ISO 3200





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    f/1.4, 1/15, ISO 3200

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    *Edit* Had some trouble with the photo size and editing my post above but figured it out. Sorry for this extra post.

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