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I got your hair on my pillow
And your smell in my sheets
And it makes me think about you
With the sand in your feet
You mean everything to me
Heels Over Head - Boys Like Girls
And your smell in my sheets
And it makes me think about you
With the sand in your feet
You mean everything to me
Heels Over Head - Boys Like Girls
Image size
4752x3168px 5.91 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Shutter Speed
1/125 second
Aperture
F/10.0
Focal Length
28 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Mar 8, 2011, 2:31:54 AM
© 2011 - 2024 neko-b
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Black & White is my favorite Photography Media. If you want to tell a STORY, or express MOOD or EMOTION, Black & White Photography acts as a focus for those things. There is no distraction from Color. In Digital 8-bit Grayscale Photography, you have only 256 tones to express everything you need to in a photo, compared to 3 channel of 256 colors, or 16 million colors, in RGB. This adds challenge and required skill. Tonal Quality is much more important in Black & White.
I really like the subject matter, and the composition of the shot, especially with the left side model's eyes like at you. You can feel the intimacy in this shot, and that is a sign of an excellent job done. I used to buy photos for my Graphic Design company, and the emotional impact of a shot easily trumps technical values.
The tonal range in this photo is a bit narrow, but the tonal quality within that range is Ok. The midtones seem washed out. In a shot like this, you cannot push up Dynamic Range without loosing even more shadow detail. But you can isolate your shadows and then push up the DR in the other tones by a just a bit, to gain more depth.
About the washed-out midtones, did you shoot this with flash? Your camera has a fairly good ISO performance in low light. So if flash was used, you might try avoiding flash next time. Overhead flash is the worse flash possible. A head on light source will flatten a face. Try using a flash off to the side. Flash in general tends to cause washed out color and a muddy look, especially the skin tones, as well as undesirable shadowing, especially facial shadowing, and tends to yield a low tonal quality shot, even worse, it often causes blowout.
If you shoot a lot of portraits and models, I highly recommend using a RING Flash, which is a flash that encircles the lens all the way around. Ring Flash provides even illumination with few shadows visible in the photograph, as the origin of the light is very close to (and surrounds) the optical axis of the lens. When the subject is very close to the camera, as is the case in macro photography, the distance of the flash from the optical axis becomes significant. Ring flashes are also very popular in portrait and fashion photography. In addition to softening shadows, which can be unflattering to models, and bringing out unsightly wrinkles, the unique way that a ring flash renders light gives the model a shadowy halo which is a common feature of fashion photography.
Here is an example of a Ring Flash made for Cannon cameras( $97) [link]
You can get a Ring Flash adapter for Nikon and Canon Hot Shoe Flash [link] (RING FLASH ADAPTERS) and [link] (Ring Flash Adapter PRODUCTS)
I really like the subject matter, and the composition of the shot, especially with the left side model's eyes like at you. You can feel the intimacy in this shot, and that is a sign of an excellent job done. I used to buy photos for my Graphic Design company, and the emotional impact of a shot easily trumps technical values.
The tonal range in this photo is a bit narrow, but the tonal quality within that range is Ok. The midtones seem washed out. In a shot like this, you cannot push up Dynamic Range without loosing even more shadow detail. But you can isolate your shadows and then push up the DR in the other tones by a just a bit, to gain more depth.
About the washed-out midtones, did you shoot this with flash? Your camera has a fairly good ISO performance in low light. So if flash was used, you might try avoiding flash next time. Overhead flash is the worse flash possible. A head on light source will flatten a face. Try using a flash off to the side. Flash in general tends to cause washed out color and a muddy look, especially the skin tones, as well as undesirable shadowing, especially facial shadowing, and tends to yield a low tonal quality shot, even worse, it often causes blowout.
If you shoot a lot of portraits and models, I highly recommend using a RING Flash, which is a flash that encircles the lens all the way around. Ring Flash provides even illumination with few shadows visible in the photograph, as the origin of the light is very close to (and surrounds) the optical axis of the lens. When the subject is very close to the camera, as is the case in macro photography, the distance of the flash from the optical axis becomes significant. Ring flashes are also very popular in portrait and fashion photography. In addition to softening shadows, which can be unflattering to models, and bringing out unsightly wrinkles, the unique way that a ring flash renders light gives the model a shadowy halo which is a common feature of fashion photography.
Here is an example of a Ring Flash made for Cannon cameras( $97) [link]
You can get a Ring Flash adapter for Nikon and Canon Hot Shoe Flash [link] (RING FLASH ADAPTERS) and [link] (Ring Flash Adapter PRODUCTS)