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02/20/2007 10:20:15 AM · #1 |
Wrote a bit of a 'how to' and 'why to' for this splash shot.Thought it might be useful.
Making a splash |
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02/20/2007 10:34:35 AM · #2 |
| Thank you, Gordon.... I bookmarked it for future reference. I would love to try some "water" stuff someday soon. I think what you said about using ISO 400 and lower light power to get crisper water will be very useful information! Thank you for taking the time to do this! |
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02/20/2007 10:44:18 AM · #3 |
nice tutorial ...
perhaps you could add it to the dpc tutorials too! :)
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02/20/2007 10:51:52 AM · #4 |
Great stuff Gordon!
As someone who doesn't know squat about lighting, things like this really help.
Love the part about the garage drying out a couple days later.
:)
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02/20/2007 10:52:45 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by super-dave:
nice tutorial ...
perhaps you could add it to the dpc tutorials too! :) |
Great idea |
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02/20/2007 10:57:48 AM · #6 |
| Gordon, great tutorial and very easy to follow. Thanks a bunch! |
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02/20/2007 11:04:46 AM · #7 |
Thank you Gordon
Very nice explanition (seems so easy wneh you read it :-)
Just one question
What is the advantage of the flash with colored gel in comparison to a textile or paper colored background?
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02/20/2007 12:05:14 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by dreamy:
What is the advantage of the flash with colored gel in comparison to a textile or paper colored background? |
I have ~200 backgrounds that cost me 1c from BHPhoto (see link and other similar swatch books from Lee). They take up about the space of a packet of cards.
I can control how dark or light those backgrounds are relative to everything else by changing the flash power. I can change the shape and fall off of those backgrounds, with snoots/ bits of paper, diffusers. With a strobe I can focus and zoom the light (or move it), to change the fall-off of the edges (e..g, the vignetting in the splash shot is all just light position and zoom)
I can mix in textures and patterns by shooting through things (some people use plants a lot)
I can take these backgrounds anywhere and set them up in a few moments.
If you combine them with already coloured backgrounds, you can really get outrageous colour too - so if you have a blue paper background and hit it with a white light, you'll tend to wash it out, but if you have a blue background and hit it with a light with a blue gel, you get much stronger colour saturation. The green background shot is like that - a green wall, hit with a green strobe.
Textile/ seamless backgrounds have their place too, different advantages/ disadvantages depending on what you are trying to achieve.
Message edited by author 2007-02-20 12:06:32. |
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02/20/2007 04:19:45 PM · #9 |
Thank you Gordon, for the explanations and the enlighting examples
I love this site and the way many of the members share time and experience.
The green on the green background shot is just awesome. I always thought those are just photo Shop colours
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02/20/2007 04:23:54 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by dreamy:
The green on the green background shot is just awesome. I always thought those are just photo Shop colours |
That green/ orange portrait is pretty much as shot. Very little extra done to it at all, other than the basic stuff I normally do to a RAW file. |
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02/20/2007 04:34:49 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
That green/ orange portrait is pretty much as shot. Very little extra done to it at all, other than the basic stuff I normally do to a RAW file. |
It's just great
I didn't meant your picture in particular
You have quite often this kind of very bright background in advertisements.
I would definitely try this lighting
The only problem is that apart from the coloured gels I need to buy some other stuff and there is plenty of time till my birthday :-)
But at first I'll go for an umbrella and the gels
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