a little fur under my monolight C&C please.

[Ernicus]

So I stuck the bunny in my little "studio", lol. I have never shot anything so white. I took a few shots, he didn't wanna hold still long enough to get a good pose out of him. These are two of the same images with a tad different processing of the same shot.

Which is better? Did I have too much light? anything obviously wrong that I am missing? or are they ok? Something seems wrong to me, but I can't place it.

I had the monolight with 24x24 softbox about 8 inches or so higher than bunny pointed down onto bunny, altogether about a foot, maybe 1.5 feet away at about between 1/2 and /14 power, I adjusted during the shoot to what looked good on the cameras histogram. This was on the left about 45 degrees ish. on the right was a strobe in a reflective umbrella at about 1/16th power about 2 feet away, also up about 6-8 inches higher in elevation than bunny.

Camera was about 2 feet away in center-ish depending on where bunny hopped to, 50mm 1.4 lens 1/160 f/8 iso 100


Thanks.

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[Ernicus]

Here is an unprocessed image. Just used "default" and "as shot" in the raw conversion. Maybe it can help in seeing if my processing sucks or capture or whatever.

 

[Ernicus]

after reviewing my own thread, I think I lost some of the "fluffy bunny" look oversharpening.

 

[PinkDoor]

Wait. . . . you have a bunny?

 

[Ernicus]

as of yesterday, yup. lol

 

[PinkDoor]

I like he/she! Really cute!

 

[Ernicus]

I've never shot anything so white, lol. I wasn't really sure how it'd come out.

 

[Ernicus]

it's a "he", his name is Theodore.

 

[PinkDoor]

I like #1 best. . . focus is good, whites are good. Looks like the light is doing what it should. Thumbs down on the towel/bottom.

 

[Ernicus]

It wasn't a towel, it is a very comfy throw blanket, thank you very much. lol.

I know, I still need backdrops...then my little "studio" is complete.

 

[Ernicus]

So you don't think it's oversharpened? That's good if not, guess I am just overthinking things. I want to print one of those for her tomorrow as a surprise.

 

[PinkDoor]

I don't think so (anyone, anyone???) It's like echo'ing in here. Do you have anything black? To put under the bunny and stretch it up and to the back? Like a full on backdrop? That might be fun in b/w too.

 

[Ernicus]

I did convert this one to b&w to see, i like how the bunny converts, but not the crappy background. All I have is purple sheet and white sheet. No black sheets. Bunny not going anywhere, so when I do get a black cloth to use I'll revisit this shot.

I'm getting less and less crit on my shots, so either I'm getting better or people just hate me. lolz.

 

[PinkDoor]

Use the purple and do a b/w! Done

 

[rokvi]

Did you do any masking after the sharpening?