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Week 9: In the Doorway
Week 9: In the Doorway
jasonlprice


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Canon
Location: Mississippi College
Aperture: 1.4
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Black and White, Children
Date Uploaded: Mar 4, 2008

Viewed: 361
Comments: 14
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 This was a challenging exposure. I wanted lots of DOF so the chairs would lead your eye to Mary, but the room was completly dark. I shot at f1.4 iso 1600 1/60 and the popup flash. I don't like the flash, but didn't have much choice to get a little detail in Mary's face.

Processing was really simple...converted to black and white with photoshop's black and white filter. I didn't add any noise...it is all natural iso 1600.


Thank you all for your great comments..here is a reworking with the suggestions in mind.


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 03/10/2008 09:26:35 PM
The composition is fantastic - excellent photo.
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 03/10/2008 07:55:06 PM
Nice handling of lighting extremes.
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 03/09/2008 10:13:35 PM
I think your leading lines you've created with the chairs makes this shot interesting. I also like that Mary has nothing behind to distract your attention away from her. My eyes did follow the chairs right to her and then focused directly on her. Despite the lightening dilema you had to deal with you did achieve an interesting image.
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 03/09/2008 04:40:35 PM
I love your concept of the shot and your thought process to execute. I think you've composed well and compensated for the lighting well. I do think you can take it further in post processing to get more of what you were after. By darkening the closer chairs, you can create the idea that all the light is coming from the doorway, rather than light coming from the camera across the chairs closest to you. A heavy gradient carefully applied might do the trick. You may also want to consider cropping or cloning out the cutoff row of chairs on the right. It would be a lot of work to clone them out, though.
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 03/08/2008 11:02:23 PM
Nice leading chairs to the cute subject. Nicely done with the extreme low light.
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 03/08/2008 11:57:31 AM
Very cool lighting.
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 03/08/2008 12:08:46 AM
"Enter Stage Left" is the first thing that popped in my mind, almost as if the lighting behind her is the spotlight for her performance. I am surprised the pop-up flash didn't leave a harsher light then this, this is well done, especially with the lighting circumstances!
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 03/07/2008 12:23:04 AM
That really was a challenging photo to get due to the light conditions. I think your pop up flash saved the day. Mary would have been a silhouette instead. Nice job.
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 03/06/2008 10:37:52 AM
Wow, Jason, you did good! I have to regularly take photos inside our culinary school where there is bright light coming in from floor to ceiling windows covering the whole wall of their kitchen, so I really appreciate how difficult it is to get such great detail in your subject against that bright backlighting from outside the door. This is such an interesting photo. Life. I love it!

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 03/05/2008 11:59:40 PM
I really like how Mary is tilted opposite the doorframe and that you didn't try to srtaighten it. Have you tried a tighter crop to get the focus more on her? I completely understand the noise issue on the 350D, anything dark at 400 or higher is full of noise.
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 03/05/2008 05:56:55 PM
ok, pop up flash glare, tilted, noisey and then you see Mary! don't take this the wrong way but precocious springs to mind! I can almost hear her saying "In 30 minutes the room will be full and I'll be entertaining them!"

Love the shot and hope to see more of Mary in the coming weeks - she is your star Jason!
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 03/05/2008 11:16:07 AM
I like it. Just burn down the the chairs a little and use a layer with reduced brightness in the part of the image to get rif of the flashy look that you don't like. Great shot, just the same.
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 03/05/2008 09:19:58 AM
cute shot, the leading lines run right to her. theres not much you can do with noise at 1600iso, maybe running a noise reduction filter would help, but i wouldnt sweat it. nice capture.
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 03/05/2008 01:24:37 AM
I like the portrait and the backlighting.
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