Thinking hard...

[gjtoth]

Susan & Debbie lit a fire under me with attempting to make things POP. I *did* manage to find some deep blue velvet (not belonging to my wife but, found at a local Goodwill). This is a statuette I picked up an eternity ago in Venice or Florence (See? LONG ago!) set up on the blue velvet. For chuckles I desaturated 'em.

First one with no reflector and, interestingly, it picked up a "halo" (probably because it's really blown out in the real bright areas). The second is with a reflector to the right front.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2176/2207893758_935f775548.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2173/2207892414_97a053d233.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2313/2207110947_dd3137acac.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2001/2207900940_ede3e8ac6e.jpg

[ladyups]

Susan & Debbie lit a fire under me with attempting to make things POP. I *did* manage to find some deep blue velvet (not belonging to my wife but, found at a local Goodwill). This is a statuette I picked up an eternity ago in Venice or Florence (See? LONG ago!) set up on the blue velvet. For chuckles I desaturated 'em.

First one with no reflector and, interestingly, it picked up a "halo" (probably because it's really blown out in the real bright areas). The second is with a reflector to the right front.



Wow, Gary, these are awesome! It looks like they are sitting under a spot light. Cool photos! Like I said, one of these days I'm going to hound you about an external flash and lighting. If it ever gets here, that is!

Mary

[gjtoth]

Wow, Gary, these are awesome! It looks like they are sitting under a spot light. Cool photos! Like I said, one of these days I'm going to hound you about an external flash and lighting. If it ever gets here, that is!

Mary


It IS under a incandescent floodlight with no diffuser. Funny.. I have a slave flash and haven't messed around with it yet... YET. heheh These, however, were shot with no floodlight using only a bounce flash and reflector on the right. The first one is shot a ISO 100 and the other at ISO 50. Have a look:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2143/2208224508_24c6a65631.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2208222770_1bc597ed5b.jpg

[LensBaby]

I really like the one on the right. Very cool!

[dkippen]

Gary - are these very large pictures? I've been having a problem downloading them.

Anyway - I am drawn to the B&W on the right. It seems to show more detail.

[gjtoth]

Gary - are these very large pictures? I've been having a problem downloading them.

Anyway - I am drawn to the B&W on the right. It seems to show more detail.

450x500, Deb. According to the one I just d/l'ed from Flickr, 128 Kb. Small, actually.

[ladyups]

It IS under a incandescent floodlight with no diffuser. Funny.. I have a slave flash and haven't messed around with it yet... YET. heheh These, however, were shot with no floodlight using only a bounce flash and reflector on the right. The first one is shot a ISO 100 and the other at ISO 50. Have a look:



Thanks for the explanation, Gary. These look good but I still like the first ones best. I like that 'under the spot light' look. Makes me think they are sitting on display in some museum.

Mary

[gjtoth]

Thanks for the explanation, Gary. These look good but I still like the first ones best. I like that 'under the spot light' look. Makes me think they are sitting on display in some museum.

Mary


Thanks for the reminder, Mary. I just yanked it out of the camera bag so I'll start USING it.

Wait'll ya see my NEXT subject! heheheh

Oh, and... I'm the wrong person to asking about that! I try to MAKE everything I can (I'm soooo cheap!). And, I don't do portraits and stuff like that so my stuff is "make do" stuff.