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[digitalpimp]

Originally Posted by luismr

Hello digitalpimp,
Welcome to DPS, great images. All of them, great treatment.

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you, luismr!

[digitalpimp]

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[digitalpimp]

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[jpsilva206]

really like the shots very candid

[rawHulk]

wow.. you have a different style for your photography.. Great shots.. like all of them.. maybe you should write a tutorial for guys like us to learn.. lol..

[digitalpimp]

Originally Posted by jpsilva206

really like the shots very candid

Thanks, JP.

[digitalpimp]

Originally Posted by rawHulk

wow.. you have a different style for your photography.. Great shots.. like all of them.. maybe you should write a tutorial for guys like us to learn.. lol..

Thanks rawHulk. Glad you liked my shots. Would love to write a tutorial but I don't feel mature and confident enough with my style yet as I'm very new to photography. Maybe you can ask me some questions regarding a particular method/style and I'll try to answer them as thoughtfully as possible.


PS: Just visited your flickr and your macros are way beyond superb! I also have a 100mm Macro but I use it more on street photography lolz.

[rawHulk]

hmm.. great.. no worries..

Most of your shots seem to be candid's right ?
How do you select your subjects ? What do you look for before you try to get their shot..?
What post processing do you do.. once you have the shot ?

[digitalpimp]

Originally Posted by rawHulk

hmm.. great.. no worries..

Most of your shots seem to be candid's right ?
How do you select your subjects ? What do you look for before you try to get their shot..?
What post processing do you do.. once you have the shot ?

Hi. Thanks for the questions.

I actually select the lighting more than the subject. If you will notice, my subjects don't really do anything spectacular but what catches our eyes is the way they are isolated from the rest of the bunch (or at least I think they are LOL). And hopefully, I'd develop Nils Jorgensen's superbly timed shots in a couple more years (only started shooting last December 2008).

Anyways, before I do a shoot, I'd spend the whoIe day scouting a particular place first. It has to be crowded so I'd have a good chance of taking home a keeper. The place also has to have shaded areas with streaks of sunlight peeping through anywhere or anything (i.e. building gaps, through the leaves, windows, etc) and then I'd take note of those places and the time when those streaks of sunlight would best hit the possible subjects, and then I'd come back the next day for the actual shoot.

I use Aperture mode, burst mode, ISO100 and spot metering for the camera settings and I decrease the EV a bit so I can get the underexposure I want for the distractions. Now, my subject has to have that 'interesting factor'. He/she could be stylish, weird, funny-looking, beautiful, handsome, etc., and when that particular person passes through my streak of sunlight, that's when I shoot in rapid successions so I won't miss a single emotion.

For the PP, I blame my colors on my Konica Minolta lenses. I guess that's what they call "the classic Minolta color", which some say gives a warm and intense tone to the images. I further enhance the warm colors through CS4 by bumping up red, orange and yellow to taste. High pass filter to sharpen the images and vignetting to isolate the subjects a wee bit more.

Hope this helps.

[digitalpimp]

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