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For Shane, I wasnt totally convinced about the selective colour either. Apologies to those who commented on earlier upload.
| Camera: | Pentax *ist D |
| Title: | Lights, camera |
| Username: | 
answersonapostcard |
| Uploaded: | 14 Oct 2004 - 7:25 AM |
| Tags: | Close-up / macro, Portrait, Toffee apple |
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Forgot to say, bribed with a toffee apple for practice, nothing more nothing less. Thats why the title is as is, I got it right for a change and only had to do one adjustment in Photoshop otherwise straight out of the camera.
Excellent shot - just love the expression - Sorry its next to my Duck's arse pic in the gallery. A flower would have been better next to your pic.
Great work
Click from me
Martin
Oh wow - what a brilliant portrait K - such gorgeous eyes! MMmmmm love those toffee apples too 
Linda x
Morning K! Hmmm....the eyes are really gorgeous, but that is only when i cover the toffee apple. 'Cos I currently found the red on the toffee apple too distracting that it really distracts me away from his lovely face/eyes. So, if your intention was to show off his eyes/face as a portrait shot, it doesn't quite work for me.
BUT since your category was "Close-up", i can certainly imagine this as a great advert image for toffee apples (cos that was what caught my attention)...and if so, it works! [His eyes seemed to say that the toffee apple was "heavenly"...]
Just my personal opinions... =)
Click. =)
Thanks everyone. Bit more explaination I think. This was just a test shot to get camera and lighting correct. My portraits have been lacking quality and sharpness as I struggled with the technical aspects of it. Having to sit and rescue an image in photoshop frustrated and annoyed me, I wanted to get this right so I could take things further. Last nights attempt was purely practice and I had to bribe Ryan with a toffee apple, he sat for 15 mins and I reeled off 122 pictures, only 4 were of duff quality. I changed lighting, camera settings all in those 15 mins and got some of the technically best to date. Now all I have to do is put the creative and the technical together. Thanks again.
Thanks all. Sze it was highly hilarious, wish I could put a montage together, I was almost crying with laughter at one point. K.
Love the picture. I'm sure he enjoyed the session too with that treat 
mmmmmmmmm ..... munchies .... nice tooth rotting shot ... lovely
Lovely portrait, K. Haven't had a toffee apple for years! Click
Jules
lol I know, bad mum but it was so funny.
Thanks Matt, I know the composition doesnt work but so chuffed for getting it right at last. K.
Thanks Gemm. Matt positioning of the lights helped and dont know why but they wouldnt sync with manual on the camera before but they did last night which meant I could manually set the camera, worked brilliantly. Tried it with a white background too but I need to make a few adjustments to get that to work as well, too reflective I think.
Oh yes, just to mention, the *ist-D can do some odd things with auto flash especially in its P-TTL mode... I've not got to the bottom of it all, but have found that manual flash will give you much more consistency. Some subjects will come out perfect, others about 2 f-stops underexposed.
(If you don't have a flash meter, just guess and take test shots. e.g. use 1/125s at f11 and adjust the aperture depending on the histogram. Once you've got it right, you shouldn't need to worry too much more.)
Have fun, and do let us know how you get on
Matt
Great portrait although I think I would prefer eye contact but then again perhaps you have one..wish I was still getting bribed to have my photo taken!!
Regards Nigel.
You really are very good at these. Love the pose and the lighting - especially the lighting. Excellent shot K,
Edward
Thanks all so much everyone. Steve thanks for the beer, enjoy your hat K.
Hi K - excellent - glad to hear you feel you're beginning to crack it - certainly looks like it here - the angle of light is spot on
Click -
an interesting point here and I run into it as well - is that the light has caught his hair parallel to his right cheek - it's a little distracting - creating a blur effect ??
I think in studio work which by definition is more formal - these little things become more significant - and I, more and more as I progress (ho! ho!), start trying to anticipate them
Cheers
Dave
Thanks Dave, yes I hadnt noticed that before, attention to detail I can see I'm going to have to attend to. K.
takes me back to bonfire nights when I was his age!
click for the nostalgia.... and the top photo of course
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