Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Working with Different Apertures....
As a continuation of yesterdays thread, I decided to get out my camera yesterday with one sole purpose - to get both eyes very, very sharp using different apertures. I was very happy with the results...
A closer crop:
And 100% (approx) crop:
Canon 400D 28mm @ 2.8 1/200 ISO 400
I did run a color pop on these and sharpened for web. Are they too sharp? I know there's a fine line between sharp and oversharpened.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
The perfect pout...
No doubt about it, Teagan has the pout perfected! Canon 400D 50mm @ 1.8 1/320 ISO 200
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
Beautiful newborn!
Canon 400D 50mm 1.4 @ 1/60 ISO 400 Natural Lighting (hospital lights - yuck! and positioned next to window)
Canon 400D 50mm @ 1.8 1/60 ISO 400 Natural Lighting (hospital lights - yuck! and positioned next to window) I visited a friend in the hospital this past weekend and took some pictures of her precious little boy. He's a beautiful newborn and is so peaceful! I'm going to be taking some more formal shots of him when they come visit and I'd love some tips on newborn shots! What do you like? I ordered some newborn angel wings so I'll have those and I'd like to get some with this little guy and his older brother too (his brother is 18 months). I'll be using natural light...
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Finally a portrait of my son!
Canon 400D 28mm @ 4.5 1/80 ISO 800 defog and levels in PS
One of the only times I could get my son to sit on the backdrop. Normally he's moving too fast to slow down for even a few minutes. Natural light here. I upped the ISO on this one to get the aperture stopped down enough. Too much noise? I have to download noiseware one of these days. I'm not seeing any improvement in the reduction of noise just using PS alone. Is it distracting to have him looking off the picture? CC welcome!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Focusing on Focus...
I've been getting a little frustrated lately at how hard it is to get a good sharp focus in low light (which is mostly what I shoot in.) I would make sure the focal point was on the eye, snap the shot and was getting disappointed at how many OOF shots I had (even at fast SS). Some keepers, but many cute unuseable shots because of slightly OOF eyes in my close-ups. But it made me determined to grow. I found back button focusing (aka BBF) and spent about 3 hours reading about focus the other night. I told you I was determined. So I figured it out and LOVE it! That combined with a better awareness of focal points (I'm now manually choosing them in low light to make sure I get the shot every time) and I'm getting SO many more keepers! LOVE this! It's a joy to download my pictures again! Here's a few examples of shots that would have been slightly OOF before... If anyone wants to see 100% crops (and if I can figure out how to do it) I'll post them too... As always, CC welcomed with open arms! :) I hope these look as sharp uploaded to the web as they do on my screen!
(Ok, so this one wouldn' have been seriously OOF because it was in sun light - but I love how sharp it is!! You can see every one of her ultra-light red eyelashes!) I did nothing to these shots except a tiny bit of defog in PS.
(Ok, so this one wouldn' have been seriously OOF because it was in sun light - but I love how sharp it is!! You can see every one of her ultra-light red eyelashes!) I did nothing to these shots except a tiny bit of defog in PS.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
The Birthday Party...
You knew I would have to post pics from the party last night right? :) Here they are! Not the most technically perfect pictures ever, but I like them. CC welcome as always!! I know the lighting here isn't the best. I told my husband that the house we build will have to be lit up like times square! He rolled his eyes and mentioned how expensive the electric bill would be! LOL!
Monday, February 5, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEAGAN & MEGHAN!
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Natural Light take 2...
So I took some of the CC from the morning and redid the shot. What do you think?
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Thursday, February 1, 2007
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