Sitting Still Life
Is it HDR, fancy photography or Photoshop? The answer is never that simple. Especially if you look at the subject matter, can you imagine getting a young boy to sit long enough for just just one image?
Original Location
The little video I did of nine brackets on a three bracket camera was originally at a wonderfully decorated house for Halloween. But I had various sound issues as well as the street was much more busy than I thought it would be. But I did finish the image I wanted to make and wanted to share it. What do you think?
Hold really really still
Back in the ancient days of photography you had to hold really still for a basic exposure which was really long. Then along came flash powder and then flash bulbs and eventually the wonderfully fast flash units. But along comes a new technology and we are back to standing still… sort of. HDR processing is still in its infancy and I expect that in a few years cameras will have an HDR mode that captures multiple exposures of the same instant. But until that day, the exposures are taken one after the other which has the issue of ghosting any movement when the images are combined. So any movement has to be calculated out of the final image. There are several ways to do this, but all require losing some of that extra exposure information you went through the trouble to get in the first place. So if you want to HDR a person, they have to hold really still for a couple of seconds.
At a recent photography event I had the pleasure to work with Emily Darnell a professional model from West Virginia very briefly. She can hold a pose extremely well, well enough where doing a HDR image of her was rather easy. In fact I think I shook the camera more than she moved since I was using a monopod instead of a tripod.
Emily Darnell a professional model can hold really still for an HDR image.
Orbis Ring Flash Contest
I had a chance to use an Orbis Ring flash at a recent meetup. Not much to say about it other than it really does the job. Wish I had one to practice more with it and to help in removing those blemishes on peoples faces without having to resort to Photoshop. Here are my entries into the contest.
Just being a bit different
Photography is all about customer service. If the customer doesn’t get what they want, you haven’t done your job. It doesn’t matter if you get paid as a photographer or you just take/make some photos on the side. With a recent session I noticed that all the photos they had hanging in their house were sepia tone. So I didn’t even bother with making black and whites. But I did do something I thought would be an eye catching change (this is a pun.) Not only did I give them their sepia tone images, but on several I brought the natural eye color through so you see the blue eyes of their children. I don’t know if it’s something they will truly like, but they have the option. Not only is it a bit different, it’s giving them more than what they asked for.
An Incredible Compliment
The other day I got an incredible compliment, but it was hidden in a matter of fact statement. I went to an end of summer pool party for a bunch of youth. Of course I took my camera because I enjoy photography and a pool party is a perfect opportunity to hone one’s skills in photographing in direct sunlight and high speed action. But while I was there, I got the compliment, “I didn’t need to bring my camera, Philip is here.” For someone to feel so incredibly at ease with me photographing them and feel that they didn’t need to worry about photos for the event is what I consider to be an incredible compliment.
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