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Monday, July 18, 2011
That thing I did last month...
Here are some photos of a wedding I helped shoot last month. Much thanks to Kyle and Mayra for having us on their special day :-).
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Monday, July 4, 2011
I'm Blind! part 2: So I kind of like Flash now
Don't get me wrong. I'm still a warm orange sunset guy. But using flash (particularly off camera flash) can really save your shots when you don't have the greatest lighting conditions outside.
For example, yesterday I was hired to shoot a very large family reunion. They wanted essentially portraits of each individual family plus one giant group shot of all of them (there was easily 90 plus people there). My window to shoot was about 3 hours (from 10:30 - 1:30) and if you were outside in Riverside, you know how bright and awful the sun was. On top of that it was a disgustingly hot 105-ish degrees.
But anyways, under regular circumstances, those lighting conditions will not do. The light is way too harsh and the straight down noon light just flattens everything. Not only that but everyone is inclined to squint and not want to take off their sunglasses.
-_- <--- squinty face emoticon!
Your only real option is to shoot in the shade. But there's a big dilemma here. If you expose for the background, the shadows become super black holes of nothingness... but if you expose for the shadows, everything outside the shadow becomes bright white nuclear winter.
For example, here's the area I chose to shoot.
Now in comes flash. By using my two flashes, I was able to put my subjects in the shaded area (eliminating the squinties -_-) without blowing out the background, AND simulate some decent side lighting. Thereby saving my shots and the day!!!
YAY FLASH!!! HIGH 5!!!
Moral of the Story: Flash is Pretty Sweet!
Thanks for reading! If anyone has any comments, questions or critiques, feel free to say so below.
P.S. Happy Fourth!!! :-D
For example, yesterday I was hired to shoot a very large family reunion. They wanted essentially portraits of each individual family plus one giant group shot of all of them (there was easily 90 plus people there). My window to shoot was about 3 hours (from 10:30 - 1:30) and if you were outside in Riverside, you know how bright and awful the sun was. On top of that it was a disgustingly hot 105-ish degrees.
But anyways, under regular circumstances, those lighting conditions will not do. The light is way too harsh and the straight down noon light just flattens everything. Not only that but everyone is inclined to squint and not want to take off their sunglasses.
-_- <--- squinty face emoticon!
Your only real option is to shoot in the shade. But there's a big dilemma here. If you expose for the background, the shadows become super black holes of nothingness... but if you expose for the shadows, everything outside the shadow becomes bright white nuclear winter.
For example, here's the area I chose to shoot.
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| Top is exposed for background and the bottom for the shadows |
Now in comes flash. By using my two flashes, I was able to put my subjects in the shaded area (eliminating the squinties -_-) without blowing out the background, AND simulate some decent side lighting. Thereby saving my shots and the day!!!
YAY FLASH!!! HIGH 5!!!
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| Example of Triumph 1 |
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| Example of Triumph 2 |
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| Example of Triumph3 |
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| I still almost died of heat stroke, but at least my shots came out pretty decent. ;-) |
Moral of the Story: Flash is Pretty Sweet!
Thanks for reading! If anyone has any comments, questions or critiques, feel free to say so below.
P.S. Happy Fourth!!! :-D
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