The Cloud Museum

frommrstomommy · May 23, 2014

last minute shoot with this couple.. CC welcome. I wb using manual kelvin and then minor tweaks in post as well as used a gray card quite a few times throughout the session. I did CHOOSE to use a very light sort of purple ish overlay of color to I think just about every image here.. I just like it, I dunno. lol but how'd I do?? i think some of the highlights in her dress are a bit brighter than id like but i did bring them down some and if i bring down exposure im not happy with the skin exposures.. so im a bit torn. and i think 10 is too bright even for me now that im looking. boo.

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14 for this I used my pop up flash because thats all i had on me and i wanted to try to get some more of the sky in this while keeping the subject exposed. i used my little white light sweater cardigan thing I was wearing to diffuse.

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Derrel · May 23, 2014

Pretty consistent, except as you mentioned, #10 is a bit brighter than maybe it ought to be. Using the pop-up flash as on-axis fill light against the setting sun was a good decision in my opinion, as far as lighting, but the poses in #13 and #14 are not very good. I can tell that these are deliberately color-tinted, and it seems appropriate to the old-timey museum, the artifacts, and the location/season, and her clothing; the very,very light color wash gives these some "mood". We see this kind of work done a lot these days, and so it seems appropriate to this time of year, and to this decade.

frommrstomommy · May 23, 2014

Thanks for the feedback! The last few were very rushed
We were losing daylight fast fast fast
It was a sort of last minute decision to stop on the side of the road for those shots after we left the museum
Lol

Derrel · May 23, 2014

frommrstomommy said:
last minute shoot with this couple.. CC welcome. I wb using manual kelvin and then minor tweaks in post as well as used a gray card quite a few times throughout the session. I did CHOOSE to use a very light sort of purple ish overlay of color to I think just about every image here.. I just like it, I dunno. lol but how'd I do?? i think some of the highlights in her dress are a bit brighter than id like but i did bring them down some and if i bring down exposure im not happy with the skin exposures.. so im a bit torn. and i think 10 is too bright even for me now that im looking. boo.

7 AmandaMaternity-24 by capturedbybc, on Flickr
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12. i used my lit

I like what you did in #7 and #8; I was taught that this is called "skimming"; where the camera skims down along the wall, and LEADS the eye TO the subject. I consider the way these were composed to be the better way to do this, as opposed to the way many people compose these, so that the eye is lead right OUT OF the frame!!! I would consider on frame #8, cropping of one and a half wagon wheels on the far right hand side, so that there is amply more wall on the left, as a lead-in to the couple.

On #7, the tall of her, again, good use of the OOF foreground plant, and good use of the skimming technique using the old sheet metal exterior wall as a natural eye lead-in to her; I would however, probably crop off that piece of old siding or roofing on the ground, down by the corner, near the bottom of her skirt. I don't like that wagon wheel above her head: I would crop the image at the top, then clone out the wagon wheel that's mounted on the wall behind her...that really creates tension that hurts the shot.

The last one is a natural "tall"...showing her legs and him standing makes visual sense; I preferred this, the tall, to the two horizontals, which just seemed, well, half-baked. But I am very pleased to see the way you've used the skimming technique as a sound, fundamental, proven way to make better and more-pleasing compositions!!! Your pictures are getting better Bonnie, they really are.

frommrstomommy · May 23, 2014

Thanks! The one of just her looks like I honestly forgot to crop it. Lol it looks like sooc. I will play with the half wagon wheel on the other. I am always scared to get too close to their heads and hands when I crop for fear of if it ends up framed.