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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2006 15:07:58 GMT -5
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Post by Gunman_sr5 on Nov 6, 2006 15:11:20 GMT -5
Looks like I will have to get the white ballance and the flash to look better, but besides that. They look good.
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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2006 15:19:47 GMT -5
well i took them in the frontroom infront of the window so we may change where we take them. I just wanted to see how the background and everything looked just incase i didnt liek it then we would have to find something else for it
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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2006 15:21:21 GMT -5
oh and the 2nd and 3rd one are my favorites if she would smile right lol and not make that goofy smile The 3rd one we could lay Hayden beside her and see how that would look
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Post by carnosaur on Nov 6, 2006 17:29:12 GMT -5
me nothing wrong wit the pic i think there awesome ;D
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Post by CkRtech on Nov 6, 2006 17:47:44 GMT -5
Hey y'all.
There are a few things I would recommend. You may want to do this with some "props" for the picture that simulate your kids. Once you have tweaked things up, you can substitute "real kids" and take the pictures. Haha
#1 - Lighting. Good general room lighting is obvious.
If you could set lamps off camera to each side, it would help out. You may have to move them around quite a bit in order to "cancel shadows" caused on your backdrop.
Placing poster board or some other type of blocking background behind the lamps will direct the light toward the kids a lot better & keep the light from spilling across the room behind the camera & therefore out of the picture. This should be done with the lamp shades off.
#2 - Shutter, focus, etc. If you can manually focus the camera, do it. Note that the less light available to the camera, the longer the shutter has to stay open.
If the subject is not lit well, then you will have quite the flash glare once the picture is snapped. Generally you see this super bright light across your subject and the background behind them is really dark when you look at the picture after it has been taken.
You may elect to shoot without the flash, but you will definitely need a tripod, stacked books, or something in order to keep the shot in focus. No matter how steady a hand you have, the picture will still blur a bit with a long shutter speed. Note that the color balance will go nuts & things will look kinda yellow. Loading your image into photoshop and using auto colors, auto levels, and auto contrast will usually fix everything up just fine.
Most of the time, shooting people with a flash is the best thing to do. Try to use the extra lighting to "help" your camera. You probably want to use a tripod no matter what if possible. If you don't have one, you can stack things up. If you want to buy one (which would of course involve money), I picked up a travel tripod at Walmart for $4.99 a few years ago. Cheap and useful.
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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2006 18:37:43 GMT -5
Cool thanks CK. Yea this is the first time of us trying this so we are new at it. We just dont have the money to spend on pictures for his birth annoucements and christmas and everything else we need to get. I think jeremy mentioned having a tripod somewhere he will just have to find it and yeah we could prolly use the lights alot better cause no room in this house is really well lit. they all have just a ceiling fan with light and stay dark most of the time. I'll have to have jeremy home to fix the contrast and everything else on the camera. I just take the pics i dont mess with the other stuff LOL.
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Post by Gunman_sr5 on Nov 6, 2006 19:18:33 GMT -5
This will be cake. Just like shooting Transformers.
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