Daily Mandy's 365 Challenge started 17/11/13 Day 262 Added

Adow2 said:
I do like the idea of these shots, love the colours, feel this one is a tad underexposed, the white background needs to be brighter. Like it compositionally.
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Thank you i am not entirely happy with it, but i have spent ages on it cloning out straggly bits off smoke my eyes have gone funny. I may come back to it after a good nights sleep.
 
LOL - smoke's like that and as the song says it gets in your eyes - have a good nights sleep Mandy :)
 
Well i am off again on a quick catch up, due to my pc having fresh windows installed yesterday and i have been busy with getting all my stuff back into the pc, Not to mention freshly calibrating my screen again. But it's safe to say my pc is happy and running very speedy now and is fully set up for the world of photography. Both images are just quick grab shots in my defence through being so busy taken on my 400d for a change and my flash was used on camera.

Day 58 RS3


rs3 by pinkbikerbabe 1, on Flickr

Day 59 Rossi


rossi by pinkbikerbabe 1, on Flickr
 
I like what you were going for here Mandy, the only thing letting them down is that the light tent needs a little more light into or ideally through it so as to avoid the creases showing it, now I cannot be totally sure as I'm only on my iPad but it looks like there is a little bit of softness there, What aperture were you using? That said the softness could be down to the print on the models but they do look like really detailed models so I'm not totally sure on that front
 
MWHCVT said:
I like what you were going for here Mandy, the only thing letting them down is that the light tent needs a little more light into or ideally through it so as to avoid the creases showing it, now I cannot be totally sure as I'm only on my iPad but it looks like there is a little bit of softness there, What aperture were you using? That said the softness could be down to the print on the models but they do look like really detailed models so I'm not totally sure on that front
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When viewing on my lappy which is not calibrated they look very very bright to me i think i may have to re look at the calibration off my monitor. When viewing on my laptop the background is more noticeable so not so sure havent checked them full size on my pc tho to see what they look like on there will do that tomorrow and re calibrate my monitor if need be. There is some softness but i think that is down to my dodgy camera angle, the rossi bike was shot at 1/60 f4.5 iso100 and about 35mm dont ask me about the flash settings as my flashgun is not a proper canon flashgun its a yn 560iii
 
Pinkbikerbabe said:
When viewing on my lappy which is not calibrated they look very very bright to me i think i may have to re look at the calibration off my monitor. When viewing on my laptop the background is more noticeable so not so sure havent checked them full size on my pc tho to see what they look like on there will do that tomorrow and re calibrate my monitor if need be. There is some softness but i think that is down to my dodgy camera angle, the rossi bike was shot at 1/60 f4.5 iso100 and about 35mm dont ask me about the flash settings as my flashgun is not a proper canon flashgun its a yn 560iii
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Could well be a camera angle issue, personally in the past when I've done this I'll usually shoot at a slightly smaller aperture in the region of f/8 ish it just makes the DoF that little bit broader :thumbs:

You should give still life light painting ago that is a lot of fun to play around with no use of flash just a torch :)
 
MWHCVT said:
Could well be a camera angle issue, personally in the past when I've done this I'll usually shoot at a slightly smaller aperture in the region of f/8 ish it just makes the DoF that little bit broader (y)

You should give still life light painting ago that is a lot of fun to play around with no use of flash just a torch :)
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It is something i plan to have a go at with one off my model bikes just need to buy myself a torch, What kind of torch would you recommend?
 
Pinkbikerbabe said:
It is something i plan to have a go at with one off my model bikes just need to buy myself a torch, What kind of torch would you recommend?
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Oh that's a dangerous question to someone like me, in all seriousness when I've done my still life light painting in the past I've just used a small double AA maglite as you don't really need a massive touch or a highly power one but it does help if you can focus it
 
MWHCVT said:
Oh that's a dangerous question to someone like me, in all seriousness when I've done my still life light painting in the past I've just used a small double AA maglite as you don't really need a massive touch or a highly power one but it does help if you can focus it
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I shall have to see what I can find when I go shopping next.
 
The level of detail is great you've totally nailed focus it looks to me sharp all over, the exposure on the model is perfect, but your going to need to try and light the light tent a little more, an option could be to do it digitally by merging two shots, one the background and one for the subject but I'm not entirely sure how convincing that would be ideally its the tent that needs lighting if not with flash you could pick up a couple of cheap desk lamps and use them as constant light with a little bit of on camera flash as fill light
 
MWHCVT said:
The level of detail is great you've totally nailed focus it looks to me sharp all over, the exposure on the model is perfect, but your going to need to try and light the light tent a little more, an option could be to do it digitally by merging two shots, one the background and one for the subject but I'm not entirely sure how convincing that would be ideally its the tent that needs lighting if not with flash you could pick up a couple of cheap desk lamps and use them as constant light with a little bit of on camera flash as fill light
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Thank you for the in depth feed back i used a different angle for taking this photo tonight, i have taken on board what you said the other night about needing to light the tent up which i will sort out by getting some desk lamps when i have some spare cash. Also for this image i did try some different settings with in my camera but i am happy that there is nothing wrong with my calibration on my monitor. The images i took the other night looked odd my laptop due to me having the screen on that set to movie mode so it was very bright and in your face have altered that now so everything seems good to me.
 
Pinkbikerbabe said:
Thank you for the in depth feed back i used a different angle for taking this photo tonight, i have taken on board what you said the other night about needing to light the tent up which i will sort out by getting some desk lamps when i have some spare cash. Also for this image i did try some different settings with in my camera but i am happy that there is nothing wrong with my calibration on my monitor. The images i took the other night looked odd my laptop due to me having the screen on that set to movie mode so it was very bright and in your face have altered that now so everything seems good to me.
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I take it that you can see the ripples/creases in the light tent, as I can see via my iPad which isn't perfectly calibrated I will admit, but its near as damn as accurate as my perfectly calibrated monitor when checked side by side, that little more light into the tend will hide them which of course is the general idea of a light tent, that said I can see the changes you've made from the other night and it is heading in the right direction :thumbs:
 
MWHCVT said:
I take it that you can see the ripples/creases in the light tent, as I can see via my iPad which isn't perfectly calibrated I will admit, but its near as damn as accurate as my perfectly calibrated monitor when checked side by side, that little more light into the tend will hide them which of course is the general idea of a light tent, that said I can see the changes you've made from the other night and it is heading in the right direction (y)
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Yes indeed i can see some creases when i view on all off my devices i will leave my iPhone out off the picture on account off it being to small.
 
another nice detailed shot and TBH the background detail isn't that intrusive/distracting to me here
 
Liking the bike shots! I agree with the feedback about more light on the background, which would make them perfect. Great focus and detail on the bike which focuses the attention away from the ever so slight imperfections of the background. :-)
 
Adow2 said:
Liking the bike shots! I agree with the feedback about more light on the background, which would make them perfect. Great focus and detail on the bike which focuses the attention away from the ever so slight imperfections of the background. :)
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Thanks for stopping by and commenting, I will be addressing the lighting soon.
 
nicely exposed but I'd suggest moving it a lot further away from the background and/or using bounced flash to tame the shadows a bit :)
 
Looking at the size of him a tin of something would probably have done the job of propping him/her up assuming that your shooting from roughly this angle the tin would be hidden, I don't really have any technical flash help to offer as my use of flash is shall we say limited :lol: but ideally you need to give him a little bit of character give him a prop of some kind :)
 
MWHCVT said:
Looking at the size of him a tin of something would probably have done the job of propping him/her up assuming that your shooting from roughly this angle the tin would be hidden, I don't really have any technical flash help to offer as my use of flash is shall we say limited :LOL: but ideally you need to give him a little bit of character give him a prop of some kind :)
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Haha i will let you off on the flash knowledge as I have no idea what I am doing with mine lol. And it's very much a boy bear, I will bear your thoughts in mind for my next teddy shot I do.
 
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