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Originally Posted by KodiakStar
As for the shot. I think you covered your basic problems. Needing more light and less ISO. What was your white balance set on? I can't give critical feedback on lighting because of my computer screen and being color blind... but you may want to shoot in RAW if your camera supports it so you can tweak it more in PP.
Do you have a tripod? For a point and shoot, it may be helpful with these lighting situations to make your shots more consistent, and lower any hand shake, since it seems like it is a pretty slow shutter speed, so any small thing you can do to eliminate those minor problems will help.
Where you zoomed in at all with the camera?
If you were zoomed in at all, consider zooming with your feet, or cropping down later.
It should give you a lower F stop, (shooting more "wide open") so you can lower the ISO and get less noise.
I have used 250w hotlights, and they didn't quite do the trick. Looking at the stuff that Russ did with the shop-light type florescent light fixtures may be the way to go for these shots for you.
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Thank you for the additional feedback. I just finished reading all 6 parts of that tutorial and there is some awesome info in there! Thanks to you and Joe for the link!!
To answer your question, the WB was set on auto. I did that because I knew they'd be changing outfits and I was trying (
trying) to remember to check and test various other settings (aperture, ss, iso (ugh, forgot about that one at one point)) so did not want to screw everything up by having jacked up WB after every clothing change.
My P&S doesn't shoot in RAW unfortunately, but I'm hoping to resolve that w/ a dslr before the end of the year (which will probably create a whole host of new problems for me to solve!
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I do have a tripod and just totally flaked on remembering to take it. I had a list and everything! It just got overlooked. That would have made all the difference in the 50+ shots I have to scrap b/c of camera shake.
As far as zoom goes...I was zoomin in, zoomin out, movin in, movin out. Probably more so with the lens than with my feet, but some of the really close ones I physically moved in to take. Had not considered, however, that moving in (versus zooming) would allow me to shoot more wide open, thus lower ISO. Thank you. I'll definitely remember that in the future.
Still so irritated I bumped up to ISO800 and then forgot to change it back.
You're right the shop lights definitely work very well. I'm going on a hunt for a 500 watt shop halogen light next weekend. I think the 120 I used might've been slightly - like, just a little - more effective without the diffuser panel. Seems I diffused my way out of any effective light whatsoever!
Good thing they were sitting in front of an 8' wide picture window!
Thanks again for your comments/feedback.