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This is the first fruits of my new adventure - dabbling in photographic lighting. The subject of this photo, Chris, is a Trustee of the Hastings Pier campaign group. He is responsible for getting the Engineering feasibility study done. An interesting character and truly committed to making Hastings Pier safe and getting it open again.
These shots were taken with 2x Elinchrom D-Lites powered from a portable battery pack. As these are part of a series of environmental portraits I have used a 24mm Tilt shift lens as the shift feature is very useful in allowing me to position the elements in the frame.
Any thoughts and comments on this set are very welcome.
| Title: | Engineering the Pier |
| Username: | 
randomrubble |
| Uploaded: | 31 May 2010 - 3:46 PM |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 1Ds |
| Lens: | Canon TS-E 24L |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Tags: | Architecture, Chris, Flash, Flash / lighting, Hastings, Pier, Portraits / people, Shift |
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It's good. I like the balance of exposure of natural and flash. Also like the location. I disagree that you could have got this with on camera flash. That would have resulted in a strong frontlit person and not as you have with shadows on the right.
Being critical I feel its a bit too undynamic...but it depends what you want.
As the structure of the pier is important maybe you needed to bring that out more rather than it being a silhouette. But still maintain the dark sky. So a bit of flash to the underside would have helped.
Another option would have been to shoot from a slightly lower angle with a wider angle so he's looking down into the camera and behind is more of the underside and structures, making sure the supporting struts are also included. Put the V more in the centre so you have him breaking out in front of the centralised V.
Thaks to all, especially Pete.
I have Taken on board the comment about getting more information by use of another image comped the main one with and a touch of Photoshop's Highlight & Shadow tool. I have also adjusted the crop, going some way to placing the 'V' more centrally as I'm finding a 5x4 format is working better for the portrait shots in this project.
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