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12/28/2005 08:52:54 PM · #1 |
I used ordinary 75w lightbulbs in these photos, because I'm broke, and cheap, and broke....I need some 'redneck' fixes if anybody has any advice,
Alright, here is the photos, ya'll tear em up, and let me know what you would do differently. The two photographs are Grandma, and Grandchild, and they were both born on July 25. I wanted to snag a photo with the connection moood, <---for lack of a better word.
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12/28/2005 08:54:41 PM · #2 |
| I'd put a reflector on the left side of the picture to lighten the shadows a bit. Otherwise, great pictures. |
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12/28/2005 08:57:34 PM · #3 |
| sure like aluminum foil, <---now thats the 'redneck' stuff im talkin about. Thanks Zep. |
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12/28/2005 08:59:33 PM · #4 |
I really like the second pic. The pose is more...connective-artsy. The younger girl's face is a bit overexposed, but with the lights you're using, that happens easily. (I use them too!) I'll second the first suggestion to reflect some light onto their other sides, although not a lot. And you might put a diffusor (read, T-shirt, tracing paper) to help cut down on the intensity of the lights.
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12/28/2005 09:05:46 PM · #5 |
| It would also be cool, if you guys have any 'redneck' set-ups you have used on photos, to post them here. I would love to see them. |
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12/28/2005 09:11:58 PM · #6 |
Here's one of mine.
It was lit with a piano lamp, a reading lamp, and a work bulb. Used some foamcore as a background and to reflect some light.
This too was 'redneck'... i made a ghetto softbox using construction paper and my trusty piano lamp.
Lee
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12/28/2005 09:17:57 PM · #7 |
| Those shots are just incredible tranquil, and knowing you did them 'redneck' style, makes it impressive even more yet. Beautiful! I think I might take inspiration from that, and do a test drive with the new camera on some shots similar. TY TY. |
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12/28/2005 09:21:46 PM · #8 |
White card stock, window light and a reflector made with tinfoil. :)
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12/28/2005 09:27:57 PM · #9 |
Wow, that is brilliantly composed idnic, very nice! I stared at it for 3 or 4 minutes looking for a flaw. And well, of course because I am a genuis when it comes to critique, I found one!
How come it doesn't smell when I scratch the computer screen. ROFLMAO, TY for posting, its an excellent, excellent photo. |
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12/28/2005 09:29:43 PM · #10 |
| Well, I can't post my entire portfolio, but what I use the most is natural light that shines through my bathroom window with the shower curtain as a diffuser. This is the method I used on most of my self portraits. You can also use headlights from a car and diffuse them too if you are taking the shot at night. |
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12/28/2005 09:41:55 PM · #11 |
Owe my Mandy, I looked at your portfolio, and thats...pretty impressive.
I cant fathem how you can translate such innocence, and then still take some of the freakiest photos I have ever seen. 3 inparticular freak me out. 1-you never notice me, 2 shelter, and 3 that freaky doll in [?]. Owe and that Butterfly Blue is pretty sweet too, very nice editing. The others were nice, angelic, sweet, innocent, and very pretty. The self-portraits are also quite nice, you are quite attractive <----don't worry no intention there (im married), nonetheless technically good as well, I like your portfolio! TY for helping take notice. |
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12/28/2005 09:57:26 PM · #12 |
You would love my set up - $35 halogen lights from HomeDepot, cuphooks screwed into the cieling, sheets with hand hammered grommits hanging from them. Tissue paper lightboxes, a burned to all heck tablecloth (from being thrown over lightbulbs), a little desk lamp, a hald of a milk carton over my flash, tin foil on cardboard reflectors... tons of those 5 dollar clamp on lamps from the Depot again... a free lightbox thats HUGE and older than I am... a bunch of old clothing boxes that are white... leftover rolls of paper from the papermill nearby... a box full of scrapcloth, a grey slab of warped drywall to warped to use on the renovations painted white, a box full of salvation army props and a lot of hard earned po'girl ingenuity. LOL
I'll get around to taking pictures of it all ... and since my costs are down I can charge very little for "studio" shots, and am starting to do very well from all the referalls this is giving me for other stuff. :) |
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12/28/2005 10:00:39 PM · #13 |
you might be interested in this tutorial //www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=20
But I am also of the 'redneck' breed. and most of my shots are done with work lamps, brooder style lamps, tin foil, bed sheets, pvc pipe, duct tape. *L* about anything thats on hand. then off to photoshop and learn how to deal with poor lighting scenes.
One thing you might want to do is work with setting your white balance in your camera. |
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12/28/2005 10:03:18 PM · #14 |
I don't have any 'redneck' advice but I am a 'redneck'!
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12/29/2005 12:55:10 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by sacredspirit:
Owe my Mandy, I looked at your portfolio, and thats...pretty impressive.
I cant fathem how you can translate such innocence, and then still take some of the freakiest photos I have ever seen. 3 inparticular freak me out. 1-you never notice me, 2 shelter, and 3 that freaky doll in [?]. Owe and that Butterfly Blue is pretty sweet too, very nice editing. The others were nice, angelic, sweet, innocent, and very pretty. The self-portraits are also quite nice, you are quite attractive <----don't worry no intention there (im married), nonetheless technically good as well, I like your portfolio! TY for helping take notice. |
Thank you very much for the compliments! The innocent photos are pleasing and make money...the freaky stuff is what I love to do. I have always produced freaky and bizzare artwork since I was a small child. Didn't go very well in the small southern rural town I live in though. People where I live think that a great painting is a barn painted on a saw blade. They think that a great portrait is only one where the subject is infront of a solid background and smiling at the camera. I hate that boring crap. |
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12/29/2005 01:03:56 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by sacredspirit:
sure like aluminum foil, <---now thats the 'redneck' stuff im talkin about. Thanks Zep. |
Which might work to soften the lighting on your Mannequin from Phobia as well. (Although I doubt you are interested in revisiting that one. ;) |
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12/29/2005 01:14:46 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by notesinstones:
.......a hald of a milk carton over my flash..... |
Just be careful NOT to use the Light Block version :-)
Edit: Drop the size of the milk bottle (plastic?).
Message edited by author 2005-12-29 13:16:20. |
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12/29/2005 01:32:17 PM · #18 |
I love 'redneck' lighting. It's all I used until I got my 430EX strobe, which now I bounce off the ceiling sometimes. My version of 'redneck' lighting is called (drum roll...) "daylight". I have a kitchen island in my house with a north skylight above and behind it, and a sliding glass door to the deck on the southwest wall of the house, which I have vertical blinds on so I can "control" that light. All of the following were shot with that "setup":
    
This one was the same except the subjects were placed on a translucent cutting board suspended between two chairs, with a 100W daylight bulb from a reading lamp shining up from beneath:
For whatever that's worth. Now, as I say, I'm playing with bounced, semi-diffused flash:
Robt. |
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12/30/2005 12:12:16 PM · #19 |
What I find most useful in "'redneck' lighting" is not pointing the headlights of my pickup truck directly into the subjects eyes. I find if you park the truck on a 45 degree angle to the person it takes the "deer caught in the headlights look" away from the subject. I also find if you break out the 1,000,000 candle spot light you can use this to further brighten the subjects or the background. Sometimes I also use my shotgun as a flash unit but the timing is very hard to get right and the bang will disturb the neighbours and possible deafen your subjects. But don't worry as it is not perm. and the ears should heal over time.
Message edited by author 2005-12-30 12:12:55.
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12/30/2005 12:15:36 PM · #20 |
| i put walmart shopping bags over my worklights to work as diffusers the other day. |
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12/30/2005 12:17:32 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by mesmeraj:
i put walmart shopping bags over my worklights to work as diffusers the other day. |
I do that too... in fact, the blue light in this shot is from a thin blue "gel" made of Wal-Mart bags. ;)
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12/30/2005 12:40:37 PM · #22 |
| If you have a flash unit you can use poster board as a surface to bounce light, use colored poster board to add color highlights to the shot (like the walmart bag trick) |
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