Keani and Deliliah

[miyukisarah]

This is my fellow musician Keani and her cello Deliliah. This was shot in my dorm room with a black sheet as a backdrop. I used a lamp for some lighting and sorry guys, flash on my camera that I diffused with some muggy looking plastic. I also added a photo filter for the coloring and cropped. Critique on composition, color, contrast and lighting please.


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Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: On

[PS*]

Your ISO needs to be higher. The photo is very dark. I think if it were lighter it would be much more what you were looking for.

[Alefeb07]

I really like this shot. My only critique is the subject is too dark. You need to increase the ISO or just add more light to shot. Good job though!

[irishmuth]

I brightened up the photo in Photoshop and the background stayed pitch black, so I think you could afford to properly expose the subject with this set up and still get the dark backdrop that you achieved here. Also, I think you could increase your aperture to get better exposure without having to increase ISO (and potentially add noise).

[daddyoproductions]

Like the idea and the colouring. Agree it's too dark...you could play with exposure and curves and see if you get some neat effects. Wondering what a more portrait crop would look like...but there were probably space constraints (been there).
~C

[miyukisarah]

daddyoprodcutions: There were serious space constraints. I hung my backdrop in the doorway of my little college dorm haha.
I messed around with the exposure. How does this look?


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[Sterling]

That's a big improvement.