Playing with filters and portraits of my dog

[Garbz]

Can you see why this didn't go in the people and pets forum

Was just playing today and couldn't be bothered calling up or going out to someone to play model, so I grabbed the first available model that couldn't complain, Snoopy.

Photographed with a +1 CTO gel on an off camera strobe set to 1/2 power. On camera flash set to 1/8th and not corrected to give a blue fill. ISO100 1/250th f/20 Colour Temp 3675K:

Yes it has many flaws, but if you saw how ghetto the setup in question was you'd realise I wasn't taking pictures that I was planning to show anyone this was a fluke.

 

[LaFoto]

Oh dear, your explanation of the making-of of this photo shows me how awfully much I will need to learn by the time I'll have scraped together enough money to get me the flash I want to buy - and how little I actually know about proper flash and camera settings when I am to use flash then :roll: --- boy, that will be yet another "study of (flash) photography" ... for right now none of these things you are describing really mean anything to me

But I like your subject!
(I like Snoopy, short and sweet!)

And I like how you took a photo against the sun, using the sun, but sort of blocking out its full power at the same time. I think that, while it might take me a couple more months before I can get myself the flash I want to have, it'll take me another YEAR from there before I can achieve such results as this (but I already know the dog that I would use, ha! )

 

[Garbz]

Thanks it's actually reasonably easy when you plan the shot out beforehand. I knew I wanted to bring down the sun and the landscapes so I set my shutter as fast as I could sync it with the flash, and bumped the aperture up to f/16. Started with the flash on quarter power, and then took pictures, pushed buttons, and twiddled knobs till it was just right.

I was actually testing something I found on a website linked to by a website linked from the basic forum yesterday. Rather than just shooting in daylight with a normal flash, put a colour correction gel on it to make it tungsten coloured and then play with the white balance. I can't wait to actually try this properly.