1st Shoes (1)
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Yep, it's been a while! But I have a good excuse, Nick and I had a baby and I have been a little preoccupied with Motherhood. Love it though! So here is my contribution to this month's topic '1st shoes'. Being kinda obsessed with becoming a mum, you will find a pair of Jarvis's new and 1st shoes. He has rather large feet for a baby, but you would not believe this when you compare his foot size (-2) to his father's (45).
Loving our new lens too!
Nick has also asked me to post his efforts for this month while I am at it. Here he has taken the topic literally and has photographed a pair of shoes as the first item of clothing to be put on.
He has been playing with the green and red filters within monochrome settings of the camera. The difference is subtle but interesting when shooting things like skin using the green filter. Try it out, the effect is cool.
In this photo he has used a red filter.
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ReplyDeleteNicely done, both of you.
Sarah.
Used the DOF very selectively and with diffent focus points, well done. (I tend to get carried away with to much Bokeh !).
The trainer in the 2nd one is pin sharp very nice, really pops.
What new lens / exif, my guess is a 50 or 100 and a fast one f1.4-f2.8 ?
Nick
Hmm, why socks after trainers ;-)
Sorry not one of your best, unfortunatley the windows are blown out, maybe an exposure composite to keep some details in the window.
Also the deer just poping its head up ?
Black and white is very creative in camera mode is okay but you can do much better if you shoow in RAW and then use Photoshop (or most of the others) and do a B&W converstion. (If you want to check compostion / contrast etc shoot one B&W in camera and then shoot final ones color RAW.
There are lots of ways to do this, main three are.
1- Desaturation. Just adjust the color saturation to zero and you've got B&W. This is simple but can be very flat.
2- Grayscale. Similar to desturation but the colours instead of loosing color change to definate grays.
3- Channel Mixer. This has a monocrome tick box which will convert to B&W like gray scale but you then still have sliders for each so you can adjust the "color" balance. Just like having color filters.
Quick google on the subject :-
http://www.teddy-o-ted.com/tutorials/black-and-white-conversion-a-how-to-guide/
Also Mr B's hero David Nightingale has a very good article on tone mapping (levels, curves and B&W).
http://www.chromasia.com/tutorials/online/curves/
Cheers,
Richard B.
First Shoes --> Shoes First.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha! Shades of Superman's underpants!
Thanks Paul, I'm glad someone got it! First shoes, then socks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the scathing criticism, Richard. Let me try to justify my existence:
First up, I agree it's not a great photo, but perhaps better than my last few efforts which I didn't even post. Composition is pretty bad. The image I had in my mind was vastly different but required a large room with space to fall about, a subject willing to be photographed very nearly undressed, and potentially a policeman in the corner. (Although that last detail was optional.)
Anyway, window purposely blown out, I didn't want any distracting detail there. On that note, I should have moved the bonsai on the window sill (not a deer), but I didn't notice it.
Point taken about RAW, but that would involve spending time in front of a computer and I like to do photography as I spend all day in front of a sodding computer and like to get away from it as much as possible. Maybe next time, though.
Finally, the new lens is a Canon EF 20mm f2.8 USM. (The old one is the 24-70mm f2.8L USM) It's really good for reportage style photography, and shooting from the hip, as it brings the subject out well. Great at parties.
Hi Nick,
ReplyDeleteSorry I didn't mean to be hard but meant contructively.
Comments of just "nice" I hate, would rather have 1 hard comment than 20 "nice".
It's always dificult when you have a great concept but logistics don't allow. However a large rooms with naked people rolling around and police man has me very worried !
20mm f2.4 sounds like a nice peace of glass.
I'd have been worried that it was to wide to create bokeh but you've done well.
Trust Paul to pick up on the First shoes - shoes first.
I missed it completley !
P.s. If PP in the computer takes to long you just need a faster one ;-)
P.p.s. I should pick up my new MAC at lunch time !!
Cheers,
Richard B.
No dramas about the comments, if I'd said it you'd've heard the smile in my voice. And I agree: harshly constructive beats "nice" any day of the week.
ReplyDeleteMy computer is plenty fast enough, but I'm not - not on Gimp anyway. Also, I feel it's a bit purer shooting B+W - it gives me philosophical satisfaction even if I'm doing the exact same thing, technically, if I do it on the computer after the event. I like to think (dream unrealistically?) it encourages a higher standard at the camera end of things as you're not thinking you can tweak a poorly lit/framed photo later on.
Finally, you seem strangely excited by your new Mac. Two exclamation points! I think Apple is overrated. The ipod, with its infuriating wheel, the iphone with its terrible sound quality (not for the user, but for the other guy. Also see: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/dafe6d6167/iphone-4-the-guys-who-didn-t-make-the-cut) and the Mac OS where you can't interrogate problems when the arise. Give me a linux box any day of the week.
N