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Post by williamw on Jun 25, 2013 12:44:38 GMT
 She was sitting on a deck chair by the swimming pool and I pulled two shots of her: the first was in full sunlight. But this one I asked her to move underneath the shade of a tree and I used a big white towel to bounce the light in. Its made with an EOS 5D and an EF 50 F/1.4 – shot at around F/5. WW |
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Post by Stevewebb on Jun 25, 2013 19:49:44 GMT
Good improvising and goes to show you don't need a $600 flash to bounce some light around.
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Post by williamw on Jun 25, 2013 23:48:31 GMT
Yes - I like your comment
Funny - I think you'll like this bit of the story . . .
I have shown this a few times in various arenas (mainly to show that a 50mm lens is "OK" to use for portraiture) . . . but I have often been asked what was the (sophisticated) Flash used - (obviously it was Flash!) because we can see the Catch Light.
. . . however for fill, I just one of those big white towels that you get supplied at Hotel Swimming Pools and the strong catch light is the (strong) reflection of light from the Swimming Pool surface.
WW
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Post by chrisc on Jun 26, 2013 13:30:44 GMT
The area between her left eye and her left ear is over exposed by about a stop and in such a way it is not feasibly recoverable in its present state of "gray," which I do not understand the reasoning for when RGB provides three times the editing latitude.
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Post by williamw on Jun 26, 2013 20:45:57 GMT
That area is about 244/244/244 and the blackest-black is about 4/4/4.
That is a wide range of grey tones: a wider representation than the Exposure Range of Grey Tones seen by the camera.
That's the reason. The print was made that way: the range of grey tones was stretched.
WW
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Post by chrisc on Jun 27, 2013 11:24:26 GMT
Be that as it may, the image isn't uniformly tonally correct, only so in most of the image. In the image side I am referring to, the tonality in the whites is only running 7% compared to most of the rest of the image which in the area between her eyes, forehead to chin running 25-31% and the area from center right eye to right side hair, excluding hair is between 55 and 65%. By adding a slight gradient overlay fill, I am able to raise that value by almost double yet not change the overall tonality values and also take out the glare in her left eye.  |
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Post by williamw on Jun 27, 2013 21:21:33 GMT
Yes, understood.
And that goes to undo the PP already applied, giving an appearance of "softer and smoother skin" - as if make-up has been applied.
The work on eye changes something - I don't know what: something in her communication / thoughts
WW
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