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Originally Posted by lissykeeper
First of all, I really like the fact that your son is wearing his camo cap underneath the santa hat. That is too cute!
I really like the expsure on the black background. but because of the bill of the cap, he has some shadows on his face. Try using something to reflect light back up to his face. I use a card windshield thing that is silver as a reflector, or you could use white matboard.
With the one on white, it is a little tougher. The exposure on your son looks pretty good, but I think the ballons caused some odd shadows on your background. Between those and the wrinkles in the background, it is really distracting to me. I really like the high key look on white backgrounds, so my suggestion would be to pull him away from the background and light it seperatly to intentionally blow it out. You could use the reflecter idea again here on the off side of the other light to light your son. OldWolf posted this link in another thread about backgounds.
http://www.zarias.com/?p=71 He has a lot of really geat stuff in there. And some awesome images too! I look forward to seeing more of your lighting efforts! |
thank you. the only way i could get him to wear the santa hat was to wear his hat underneath. BOYS!!! LOL!!!!
maybe because its late and i can't think of anything at the moment - but in the black background; how would i reflect light back to his face. i don't have a table/stand for him to sit on. he was on the floor with the present in front. do i just lay it on the floor? but if i did that then how would the light bounce back up to him? yeah you can tell i am new to this.
as for the white - i knew better to even try. but i did anyway. i read on here that it is very hard to shoot on white. and i know exactly what you mean about the shadows and wrinkles. they catch my eye everytime, then his smile gets me and i keep the photo everytime. i guess thats the mom in me.
i'm not givin up on the white backgrounds. i just have to spend more time readin up on do's and don'ts