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12/24/2002 01:00:06 AM · #1 |
How do alot of you get such amazing backdrops? Both colour and just plain black behind your images?
Any tips?
Cheers Paul
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12/24/2002 01:07:28 AM · #2 |
I have a Canon D30 digital SLR. It sucks in low light conditions and as such underexposes anything that is not well lit.
Check this one out: Kiwi
The background was a white poster board... can't tell a lick since the light was pointed at the kiwi and not the background. Basically, the background was highly underexposed. Not sure how to duplicate this effect with a point and shoot. Sorry.
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12/24/2002 01:13:45 AM · #3 |
For me it is the lighting and the focus. If I want a black background I point my light sourse at the subject and not the background. If the background shows up a little I use more contrast to make it darker. Try it and see what happens. Show us the results. We will help as much as we can.
Sonja
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12/24/2002 01:13:57 AM · #4 |
Use any background, grey sky pale yellow, and if you subject allow it, played with brightness or better with something like 'curves' in photoshop to 'blow up' the background. For black oue .. 'blow down' the brightness and the curves. Does not work with all subject though
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12/24/2002 01:15:07 AM · #5 |
so your saying my cam is a point and shoot? I thought that may be the case but I have had different opinions? It does have manual mode?
Cheers Paul |
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12/24/2002 01:25:42 AM · #6 |
This guy has the same camera and has accomplished this effect.
Scintillation
But the subject (fire) is much brigher than its surroundings.
So maybe the secret is to properly expose something that has too much light on it.
Check these two pics out I took a long time ago..
slightly underexposed
slightly overexposed
Taken with exact same lighting... just different camera settings.
Message edited by author 2002-12-24 01:26:59.
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12/24/2002 07:17:40 AM · #7 |
I just use an A3 size piece of black card or white card. They are recycled and still have my dads business presentations on the other side.
All of the photos in my profile (body challenge is my first with a new camera) are taken with a point & shoot.
If you let it auto-set the exposure while pointed at a bright object, it makes everything darker, so if you then keep your finger half pressed and look at a dark object, it will appear black.
Same thing the other way round. Point it at something dark, then move it to something light, the light thing will be very white and look over exposed.
Hope that helps.
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12/24/2002 09:57:18 AM · #8 |
Hi Paul, most cameras are referred to Point and shoot if they aren't SLR (or DSLR). My G2 has basically all the same functions as a SLR (spot metering, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Fully manual, etc). We just don't have the bragging rights that the D-SLR people do :)
Originally posted by rogerspaul:
so your saying my cam is a point and shoot? I thought that may be the case but I have had different opinions? It does have manual mode?
Cheers Paul |
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