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The non-night night shot
On 2010-10-11 17:49:32 -0700, Vance said:
The Night Shot SI is coming up and I was a little tempted, but just a little, to enter the final version of this shot. This is a test location shot for a book cover. Very noire, 40's, Dashiel Hammet type of thing. Finished, it will have the requisite model in trench coat and big floppy hat, shadowed face and something threatening (still to be determined) . However, it's not a night shot. I'm just posting this in case anyone has a flash and wants to play with it a little. Here's the stairwell as it was on an overcast day: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink And here it is with a flash mounted behind the light fixture to the right. Shots like this are pretty easy. Meter the ambient light, or the reflected scene and decrease exposure. In this case, 1 2/3 stops. Set your flash to give you the proper exposure for the aperture you are using. The flash here was a Canon 580 EX clamped to the conduit feeding the light fixture with a black piece of construction paper in the shape of a tube wrapped around the flash head and secured with a rubber band. The flash was angled to rake the light across the doorway. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...t=d irectlink In the midst of all the fascinating technical talk here in RPD, I thought there might be someone out there that might want to get out and recreate with there camera and maybe try something new for themselves. It's an old technique, but not used often by the recreational photographer. Vance Put your model down there. Get your shot. Then in post add a texture overlay and some noise, or pseudo grain. adjust to set the mood, and I give you noire doorway. http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechut...MG_0231-2B.jpg There is also last week's PhotoShop TV where, at about the 9:50 mark, Corey Barker demonstrates using layer effects to get the sort of effect you might be looking for, complete with fedora! http://kelbytv.com/photoshopusertv/2...5/episode-245/ -- Regards, Savageduck |
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The non-night night shot
On 2010-10-11 23:29:53 -0700, Val Hallah said:
On Oct 12, 8:21*am, Savageduck wrote: On 2010-10-11 17:49:32 -0700, Vance said: The Night Shot SI is coming up and I was a little tempted, but just a little, to enter the final version of this shot. *This is a test location shot for a book cover. *Very noire, 40's, Dashiel Hammet typ e of thing. *Finished, it will have the requisite model in trench coat and big floppy hat, shadowed face and something threatening (still to be determined) . *However, it's not a night shot. I'm just posting this in case anyone has a flash and wants to play with it a little. *Here's the stairwell as it was on an overcast day: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...-eJQamOqnPnVYU... And here it is with a flash mounted behind the light fixture to the right. *Shots like this are pretty easy. *Meter the ambient light, or the reflected scene and decrease exposure. *In this case, 1 2/3 stops. *Set your flash to give you the proper exposure for the aperture you are using. *The flash here was a Canon 580 EX clamped to the conduit feeding the light fixture with a black piece of construction paper in the shape of a tube wrapped around the flash head and secured with a rubber band. *The flash was angled to rake th e light across the doorway. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eBZgamOqnPnVYU... In the midst of all the fascinating technical talk here in RPD, I thought there might be someone out there that might want to get out and recreate with there camera and maybe try something new for themselves. *It's an old technique, but not used often by the recreational photographer. Vance Put your model down there. Get your shot. Then in post add a texture overlay and some noise, or pseudo grain. adjust to set the mood, and I give you noire doorway. http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Doorway-to-Below_MG_0231-2B.jpg There is also last week's PhotoShop TV where, at about the 9:50 mark, Corey Barker demonstrates using layer effects to get the sort of effect you might be looking for, complete with fedora! http://kelbytv.com/photoshopusertv/2010/10/05/episode-245/ -- Regards, Savageduck I didnt get past the ****e music... Try. You might learn something. I also hate enthusiastic music sound tracks (particularly when it is awful), but sometimes the information available is quite good, and worth checking. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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The non-night night shot
On 2010-10-12 02:12:34 -0700, Vance said:
On Oct 11, 11:21*pm, Savageduck wrote: On 2010-10-11 17:49:32 -0700, Vance said: The Night Shot SI is coming up and I was a little tempted, but just a little, to enter the final version of this shot. *This is a test location shot for a book cover. *Very noire, 40's, Dashiel Hammet typ e of thing. *Finished, it will have the requisite model in trench coat and big floppy hat, shadowed face and something threatening (still to be determined) . *However, it's not a night shot. I'm just posting this in case anyone has a flash and wants to play with it a little. *Here's the stairwell as it was on an overcast day: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...-eJQamOqnPnVYU... And here it is with a flash mounted behind the light fixture to the right. *Shots like this are pretty easy. *Meter the ambient light, or the reflected scene and decrease exposure. *In this case, 1 2/3 stops. *Set your flash to give you the proper exposure for the aperture you are using. *The flash here was a Canon 580 EX clamped to the conduit feeding the light fixture with a black piece of construction paper in the shape of a tube wrapped around the flash head and secured with a rubber band. *The flash was angled to rake th e light across the doorway. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eBZgamOqnPnVYU... In the midst of all the fascinating technical talk here in RPD, I thought there might be someone out there that might want to get out and recreate with there camera and maybe try something new for themselves. *It's an old technique, but not used often by the recreational photographer. Vance Put your model down there. Get your shot. Then in post add a texture overlay and some noise, or pseudo grain. adjust to set the mood, and I give you noire doorway. http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Doorway-to-Below_MG_0231-2B.jpg There is also last week's PhotoShop TV where, at about the 9:50 mark, Corey Barker demonstrates using layer effects to get the sort of effect you might be looking for, complete with fedora! http://kelbytv.com/photoshopusertv/2010/10/05/episode-245/ -- Regards, Savageduck I didn't post the shot to show what I could do with Photoshop and lighting, or what I can do at all. Photography isn't an ego thing for me. Most of the time, it's a job and positive feedback comes in its preferred form of check. This was just something that anyone could do if they wanted to dress up a shot or experiment a little and have a flash that they can use off camera. Some people like to do that, some don't and prefer to capture things pretty much as they are in camera. I just put it out there as a 'If you try this, you can get a result something like this' post. It's illustrative and not meant to be an image on it's own. Vance OK! I was just saying. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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The non-night night shot
On 10/12/10 PDT 12:28 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2010-10-11 23:29:53 -0700, Val Hallah said: I didnt get past the ****e music... Try. You might learn something. I also hate enthusiastic music sound tracks (particularly when it is awful), but sometimes the information available is quite good, and worth checking. My keyboard has a button to completely silence all sounds... And good web design will have a stop button for music. Just sayin' |
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The non-night night shot
On 2010-10-12 09:11:46 -0700, John McWilliams said:
On 10/12/10 PDT 12:28 AM, Savageduck wrote: On 2010-10-11 23:29:53 -0700, Val Hallah said: I didnt get past the ****e music... Try. You might learn something. I also hate enthusiastic music sound tracks (particularly when it is awful), but sometimes the information available is quite good, and worth checking. My keyboard has a button to completely silence all sounds... And good web design will have a stop button for music. Just sayin' Unfortunately Kelby does both Photoshop User TV and DTownTV as a video production, and the bad music is part of that production, not a part of the web site per se. It is imbedded in the site and also available as a PodCast. So, if there is an episode of particular interest, I will mute through the titles, chit-chat, and fast forward through the tired ads. Fortunately the music is limited to the title sequence and their one ad break. Plenty of the content in these two shows is very informative, and is worth the few minutes to take a break and check what they have to say. It is always good to get a different take on some things. Photoshop and Lightroom fall into that category. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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