cheroxy
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Hello, first time poster here with many years of professional video editing experience, and many years of consumer photography experience. I'm trying to up my photography game and have a couple questions. I shot the following (as you can see in the RAW images) with a Canon 40D. The practice Christmas shots were shot with a camera mounted Speedlite 580 II with a softbox over it. My two questions:
1-is the only way to get rid of the hard shadow on everyone's (camera) right, to have two flashes, one from both sides? If so, do I get a better shot by having three (one in front, one on each side)? I live in Seattle so abundant natural light is not often available.
2-why is my image not as sharp here when doing manual as it is when shooting automatic? You can see the settings of this test photo in the upper right information panel on each version of it. I posted below that a picture from the same camera on automatic so you can see the resolution I get other times. I would like to crop the final version of this practice shot very tight, but when I get in very far it gets very pixely
Original test photo in RAW...
Zoom at 200%
Zoom at 300% and very pixely.
As stated above, another image from the same camera of the same boy using the on camera flash. See bottom photo for original. Details = iso 400, exposure 1/60, shutter 1/64, f/4.00, focal length 55 mm.
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1-is the only way to get rid of the hard shadow on everyone's (camera) right, to have two flashes, one from both sides? If so, do I get a better shot by having three (one in front, one on each side)? I live in Seattle so abundant natural light is not often available.
2-why is my image not as sharp here when doing manual as it is when shooting automatic? You can see the settings of this test photo in the upper right information panel on each version of it. I posted below that a picture from the same camera on automatic so you can see the resolution I get other times. I would like to crop the final version of this practice shot very tight, but when I get in very far it gets very pixely
Original test photo in RAW...
Zoom at 200%
Zoom at 300% and very pixely.
As stated above, another image from the same camera of the same boy using the on camera flash. See bottom photo for original. Details = iso 400, exposure 1/60, shutter 1/64, f/4.00, focal length 55 mm.
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