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05/25/2007 04:03:28 PM · #26
Originally posted by Ben:

Is that Cindi?


Dude, there's an echo in here. I think David has some splaining to do. :P
05/26/2007 07:07:14 AM · #27
Wow, these are all really amazing.

It would be very helpful if you could give some insight into the lighting set-up for these images.
05/26/2007 07:13:33 AM · #28
Originally posted by dwterry:

Originally posted by Lowcivicman99:

WOW you really do some good work. Although they look like they took a similar processing transformation, did you individually process them separate or did you use a action to apply certain steps to all the images then touch up from there?


I have a "default setting" in Lightroom that I use. The majority of these are straight out of Lightroom with minimal tweaks beyond my defaults. A few of them have already been edited, but only because my daughter wanted some 4x6's done. Since they were 4x6s, I didn't spend much time editing other than to clean up some of her mascara that had flaked. But I did adjust the lighting just a bit on a couple of those that I edited (mostly dodge and burn kind of stuff).

If you see anything specific that you want to know more about, I can look it up to see what I did.


That is wonderful, and so are the pictures. I'm sure she will be very thankful for you doing that. You really did a wonderul job. I think I speak for everybody when I ell her we all said Congratulations...
05/26/2007 07:52:44 AM · #29
She's a very beautiful model! Wonderful shooting David ......it looks like you both had a lot of fun!
05/26/2007 08:55:45 AM · #30
Originally posted by wavelength:

Originally posted by Ben:

Is that Cindi?


Dude, there's an echo in here. I think David has some splaining to do. :P


If ever the chance were to arise, I'd definitely shoot Cindi. But alas, no, that's my daughter. (now to reload my shotgun to keep the boys away)
05/26/2007 09:01:31 AM · #31
Originally posted by Raziel:

Wow, these are all really amazing.

It would be very helpful if you could give some insight into the lighting set-up for these images.


Some of them are completely natural lighting. I have a habit of NOT shooting 100% natural lighting (using some kind of fill flash) and so I was trying to "push myself" a little. I noted a few comments posted on the images about dark eyes... that only makes me wish I had turned the flash on. I gotta get better at natural lighting!

Most probably have an on-camera flash (580EX) as fill light. But in the images where she is walking (strutting? dancing?) on the road, those were taking with an off-camera 420EX using a shoot-through umbrella to soften the lighting.

You can read more about this technique in a thread I posted here just a couple of days ago.
05/26/2007 09:01:36 AM · #32
It really pays to have your dad be a kick-ass photographer. I bet she's got the best senior portraits of all her friends. :-)
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