Thursday, May 14, 2009

Flower

My friend Alain and I set up a little studio to photograph this flower. It wasn't much, just a dark room with some halogen work lights, because neither of us own a flash yet. We sprayed it with water just to make it a little nicer.

Red seems to be a hard colour for me. Whenever I do something with a lot of red, it never turns out quite the way I'd like. I'm not really sure how to explain what I mean, I just think it could be better.



Posted by Joel MacKenzie at 8:00 AM
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  1. tylerMay 17, 2009 at 4:27 AM

    perhaps your reds are not looking quite the way you like because of your lighting. I know that my video prof told us that lighting was really important, usually they would have several different kinds of bulbs what give off different light. I'd only assume the principal is basically the same for still shooting. I know he hated florescent lights (made things look unnatural) I dunno much about halogens but perhaps they don't do much for reds.

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  2. hblMay 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM

    The lighting is important. One method for compensating for variations in color temperature of the lighting is to measure it using a white or neutral gray card and storing it in the camera's memory.

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  3. Joel MacKenzieMay 17, 2009 at 4:31 PM

    Thanks for the tips. I compensated for the warmer temperature/yellowish tint of the lights using a white card.

    I found the problem. I went back to look at the originals and they were better. I'm trying out a new program (Bibble) to convert my RAWs and found that it automatically added some saturation so I just needed to turn it down some, maybe I'll re-post them sometime.

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  4. hblMay 18, 2009 at 10:13 AM

    If you are in the process of evaluating photo editors, give GIMP a try. It uses ufraw (available separately) as the RAW loader. And, the price is right: $0.00!

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  5. Joel MacKenzieMay 18, 2009 at 10:27 AM

    I do use GIMP and UFRaw quite a lot and like them and will continue to, I was just looking to see what else was available.

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