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Re: Indoor Pictures of woods
« Reply #20 on: February 14, 2010, 08:01:19 »
Another way to solve the shadows on the background is to have a small slave flash set at low power pointing on to the background and hidden in the scene.  You'd need to experiment with settings and you'd probably be better using it in conjunction with a "proper" off-camera flash rather than the built-in one, but now we're talking spending money and getting very technical.

I think Little Jo just has a large daylight balanced strip light over his modelling area.  There's a picture somewhere on the board or maybe on his website.
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Re: Indoor Pictures of woods
« Reply #21 on: February 14, 2010, 11:27:03 »
Good job,rasputin! I have also been experimenting with different lighting and stuff sadly my camera is still crap :(
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Re: Indoor Pictures of woods
« Reply #22 on: February 14, 2010, 15:22:31 »
Hello

Thanks Martin and Gordon for taking the time to post more tips and tricks. I do appreciate them and can not guarantee I will use them all but I certainly will look in to them all. Hopefully all this information will get more of our members inspired and educated on the art of photography.

Highland the camera I am using is an old Olympus 3.3megapixel that my mother-in-law was replacing for a nice modern one.

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Re: Indoor Pictures of woods
« Reply #23 on: February 14, 2010, 15:26:45 »
Quote from: playmovictorian on February 13, 2010, 16:23:10
Really nice picture & set up Ras  :wave:

I love the flooring  :love:

Karim :)

Thank you Karim

Quote from: Justindo on February 13, 2010, 20:28:05
Very nice scene, Rasputin!  Excellent phography and mise en scene.

Thank you Justindo, I am still learning and hope to improve not only the pictures but the scene as well.

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Re: Indoor Pictures of woods
« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2010, 16:39:53 »
hi ras
i love the scene, i am ready to move into the cabin, maybe just a week or so for r and r. 

some other ideas for lighting.  off camera flash is the only way to go, and bounce to eliminate the glare.  if you place a white poster board over your scene if you are not in a white ceiling-ed room that might work as well.  also try doing a flash compensation on your old camera.  there might be a setting to decrease the intensity of the flash, ie +/- .3 to 2.0.  when you take a portrait of someone umbrella shaped refectors can be used to bounce light and various angles, a white umbrella will give white light etc.  the other lighting used in a portrait is a light box, it fits over the flash and is a giant white fabric covered box.  you might be able to achieve the same effect of diffusing the light by putting the flash behind a piece of porous white fabric.  they are usually made out of white taffeta.  studio portrait photographers usually have these placed at the 8 and 4 o'clock positions, actuallly a combination of bounced, filtered box and reflected light is often used, to create non-directional light.  if you are having a problem with the color, make sure your white balance is set for the type of light you are using, fluorescent vs incandescent etc. 
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Re: Indoor Pictures of woods
« Reply #25 on: February 17, 2010, 22:10:12 »
I agree with Kaethe, it seems like every time I am struggling with an inside pic not looking right, it is because my white balance is not set correctly. 

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