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 12/22/2005 07:42:59 PM · #1
Hey guys! I have this portrait shoot tomorrow and tons of people are just going to have their picture taken, so I've posted pictures of my set-up, and I would love anything you all could do for ideas!!
THANKS!!!!!
HERE ARE THE PICTURES

Message edited by author 2005-12-22 19:46:22.
 12/22/2005 07:46:02 PM · #2
These ones? My only sugestion would be to either move it so it's all in formt of that white blind or put a backdrop behind the trees ;)
 12/22/2005 07:47:40 PM · #3
Originally posted by james_so:
My only sugestion would be to either move it so it's all in formt of that white blind or put a backdrop behind the trees ;)

We wanted to move it infront of the blinds, but my tripod and me will cut off traffic. If I did a bacdrop, would I have to wrap it around a little bit? And what color??
 12/22/2005 07:50:50 PM · #4
If you'll end up in traffic not much you can do. Try to hang something One thing I'd do thought is check your white balance. Those pictures had some serious color shifting.
 12/22/2005 07:52:28 PM · #5
What about rotating the shot to the right. In front of the big blind? Put some things down low to break up the lower border?
 12/22/2005 07:52:58 PM · #6
I was going to mention white balance but thought it was intentional because it's so extremely pinkish/lavenderish.

Good luck. You'll do fine!

Message edited by author 2005-12-23 00:17:28.
 12/22/2005 07:53:01 PM · #7
Nathan beat me to it - that pink hue is bothering me. Make sure to shoot RAW.
If you stay fairly closely zoomed in, the blinds/windows may not be toooooo big a problem.
Edited to say that TWO people beat me to it LOL

Message edited by author 2005-12-22 19:53:34.
 12/22/2005 07:53:21 PM · #8
I put some comments on the one with the person.
 12/22/2005 07:53:57 PM · #9
The pink is from a built-in filter feature, but it sounds like I should turn it off??
 12/22/2005 07:55:05 PM · #10
Yeah, a backdrop would help a lot. White would be fine.

Also, shoot raw. Take a picture of a gray card at the beginning so that you can use it to set your white balance. Then ... I highly recommend using RawShooter Premium to convert the pictures.


12/22/2005 07:55:10 PM · #11
Originally posted by Tom:
The pink is from a built-in filter feature, but it sounds like I should turn it off??

YES !!!!!!!!
 12/22/2005 07:55:13 PM · #12
yes - turn off the pink...
 12/22/2005 07:56:18 PM · #13
HaHa, ok, pink's gone! Anything else? I think I'll run back there and take a few more shots w/o pink and try to talk them into letting me set-up a backdrop

Message edited by author 2005-12-22 19:56:26.
 12/22/2005 07:57:51 PM · #14
Originally posted by Tom:
Originally posted by james_so:
My only sugestion would be to either move it so it's all in formt of that white blind or put a backdrop behind the trees ;)

We wanted to move it infront of the blinds, but my tripod and me will cut off traffic. If I did a bacdrop, would I have to wrap it around a little bit? And what color??


So long as it's smooth and you don't get the edges in the shot it should be OK. I'd suggest white to keep things simple, but any seasonal colour would probably work.

You can see from this shot roughly how big it'll need to be and where.

12/22/2005 08:19:01 PM · #15
Natural is much better....

12/23/2005 08:57:17 AM · #16
are you leaving room for people to stand behind the bench also? You may want to make sure you have room for that unless you are certain everyone will be sitting. Hate to see you panic and have to move all of a sudden and re-setup.

As far as the blinds it isn't too bad but a black or dark blue backdrop would be good. Can you play with your DOF and see if you have enough room for a slightly blurred background? I'm thinking no but it's hard to tell.

good luck.

Message edited by author 2005-12-23 08:57:44.
 12/23/2005 09:22:22 AM · #17
Originally posted by sabphoto:
Can you play with your DOF and see if you have enough room for a slightly blurred background? I'm thinking no but it's hard to tell.


I'm kinda new to photography, but isn't depth of field my f-stop? What settings do I need to use??
 12/23/2005 09:41:52 AM · #18
you would want (and I hope I have this right as I'm no pro either) your aperature wide open but more importantly (and probably why it won't work in your situation) your camera to subject distance has to be less than the subject to background distance. So if possible move the bench forward away from the background. Also most will use the greatest telephoto distance they can to help this out.

My camera doesn't do it very well but I would think the rebel would. You may want to just to ignore my input for now and play with that when you have more time.
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