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Flowers & Plants Showcase ⇒ Mystery light
- Matt Quinn
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Re: Mystery light
Duck, As suggested. After breakfast. Don't look too closely, sir. No need for you to worry about competition coming from this direction. Matt
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"...approach the light as opposed to the subject." Stan Godwin
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Maybe not, but you do learn a lot from these exercise.Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Thu May 24, 2018 6:00 pmDuck, As suggested. After breakfast. Don't look too closely, sir. No need for you to worry about competition coming from this direction. Matt
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I especially love the chair and the 'shrooms. 

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- Matt Quinn
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Thanks Chuck. Here's another eggshells photo I prefer because of the angle. Does the cloth distract? Matt
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"...approach the light as opposed to the subject." Stan Godwin
"...approach the light as opposed to the subject." Stan Godwin
- Charles Haacker
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The cloth may distract a little. It's not the texture so much as the wrinkles. I don't think I would even mention it had you not. One thing you might try is a white background, coved so as to be seamless (a sheet of posterboard works). White on white in soft light can be very striking but tricky to expose since your meter will want to underexpose to make the white gray (middle gray). Generally just watch the histogram and expose to the right.Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 2:19 pmThanks Chuck. Here's another eggshells photo I prefer because of the angle. Does the cloth distract? Matt

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This link takes you to my Flickr albums. Please click on any album to scroll through it.
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All the great photographers use cameras! No, really.

(I prefer to present pictures in albums because I can put them in specific order.)
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- Matt Quinn
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Thanks Chuck. I may just use that suggestion as motivation to play around in PS. I'll send any half-way decent results your way. Best for the holiday weekend MattCharles Haacker wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 2:39 pmThe cloth may distract a little. It's not the texture so much as the wrinkles. I don't think I would even mention it had you not. One thing you might try is a white background, coved so as to be seamless (a sheet of posterboard works). White on white in soft light can be very striking but tricky to expose since your meter will want to underexpose to make the white gray (middle gray). Generally just watch the histogram and expose to the right.Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 2:19 pmThanks Chuck. Here's another eggshells photo I prefer because of the angle. Does the cloth distract? Matt![]()
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Here is a good exercise to tackle this weekend, since you're on tabletop work. Joe Edelman put out a great little video about how to see light on a subject... using a egg. Check out the video I linked below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7CcUrUD2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7CcUrUD2g
"If you didn't learn something new today, you wasted a day."




Tutorials ⇒ How to critique photos
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Tutorials ⇒ How to critique photos
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- Charles Haacker
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I remember this terrific video. Last October we discussed the egg assignment I had back in school: viewtopic.php?f=89&t=3082&p=21229&hilit=egg#p21229Duck wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 4:28 pmHere is a good exercise to tackle this weekend, since you're on tabletop work. Joe Edelman put out a great little video about how to see light on a subject... using a egg. Check out the video I linked below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7CcUrUD2g
Friends call me Chuck.
This link takes you to my Flickr albums. Please click on any album to scroll through it.
(I prefer to present pictures in albums because I can put them in specific order.)
All the great photographers use cameras! No, really.

(I prefer to present pictures in albums because I can put them in specific order.)
All the great photographers use cameras! No, really.

- Matt Quinn
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Chuck, Went back to that egg exercise you mentioned. I'll have to do that. The bent poster board is just what I need to eliminate a horizon. Thanks. Matt
Matt Quinn
"...approach the light as opposed to the subject." Stan Godwin
"...approach the light as opposed to the subject." Stan Godwin
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