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08/24/2005 08:00:50 PM · #1 |
Hi all, I'm going to be helping out with the Heart Gallery (Virginia Adoption Gallery Photos) and I've been assigned to photograph a family of 6 african-american children. any tips for photographing them? settings, etc? I'll probably be using my 50 mm/1.8 lens, and we're meeting around dinner time tomorrow night outdoors.
I really want these photos to turn out nicely for these children.
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08/24/2005 08:04:00 PM · #2 |
Use the same settings you would normally use. Skin is skin. In PP make sure you bump up the saturation and contrast to make the skin glow. But then again, I do that for all skin tones. It is only different if you go in there acting like and thinking it is different.
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08/24/2005 08:04:11 PM · #3 |
Set metering to center weight and make sure their face fills the circle. Shutter button half way, change framing and shoot. You can also use exposure lock too. Every situations will be different so may have to do exposure compensation. Expreiment if possible.
Nick
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08/24/2005 08:11:00 PM · #4 |
thank you so much for replying, Teresa and Nick! Your recommendations are great!
And Teresa, i totally agree with you that skin is skin, i've found that when photographing my husband, who is significantly darker than me and my son, and my son, my results are very different for both of them -- my son unfortunatly, inherited my coloring, which i find incredibly hard to shoot. i really want to do a good job for these kiddos -- i actually want to adopt all of them!
thanks again!!!
kelly |
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08/24/2005 08:14:41 PM · #5 |
Your son is beautiful BTW. I love the bedtime routine shot. The b/w really works for that shot.
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08/24/2005 08:16:40 PM · #6 |
ahhhhh, thanks Teresa!!!! I'm a bit partial to him as well!!! you made me smile (it is always nice to hear someone else compliment your child, know what i mean???)!
thanks!
peace,
kelly |
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08/24/2005 08:34:08 PM · #7 |
| I asked this question once and got some useful replys:See this thread |
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08/24/2005 08:37:51 PM · #8 |
I was just reading about the Heart Gallery project in Rangefinder. What a terrific idea and best of luck to you!
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08/24/2005 08:48:21 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by twm122:
Use the same settings you would normally use. Skin is skin. |
Light skin has different reflective properties then dark skin does and the camera's meter reads these different.
When I'm shooting birds I tend to underexpose 1/3 - 1 full stop when shooting white Great or Snowy egrets and overexpose 1/3 to 1 full stop when shooting Little Blues in order to get full detail and depending on the lighting. The same factors hold true when doing portraits.
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