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Some better shots from the woods
Apr 25, 2020 01:01:17 #
Just getting back to editing a few of these and on a few the exposure and focus were much better. Full frames showing here on these preliminary edits. The exposure info is in the screencaps after each image.
These were shot on a walking bridge that goes over a gully on some private land. There's about a 12-foot elevation change between banks, so the downhill look is true to the scene and not an optical illusion. The last image is out of focus but tolerable. We plan to go back soon before the vegetation changes too much. I want to shoot some images with less DOF and maybe shoot from the other bank so I'm not shooting into the afternoon light.
These were shot on a walking bridge that goes over a gully on some private land. There's about a 12-foot elevation change between banks, so the downhill look is true to the scene and not an optical illusion. The last image is out of focus but tolerable. We plan to go back soon before the vegetation changes too much. I want to shoot some images with less DOF and maybe shoot from the other bank so I'm not shooting into the afternoon light.
Apr 25, 2020 03:10:20 #
Apr 25, 2020 09:31:04 #
Great shots and as always a pleasure to see. Even though there is a lot to look at in the pictures the emphasis is always on the model. Hopefully no poison ivy in the area.
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Apr 25, 2020 10:23:37 #
Runninglate wrote:
Great shots and as always a pleasure to see. Even though there is a lot to look at in the pictures the emphasis is always on the model. Hopefully no poison ivy in the area.
We're long-time campers and involved in Girl and Boy scouts so we're always on the look-out for poison ivy, copperheads, black widows, etc. In our part of the state, we really don't have to worry about rattlers. Usually, the big interruption is people. One afternoon we were in a state park but were we had hiked well off a trail to shoot some photos. I looked up after a shot and saw we had picked up an observer. Apparently another trail paralleled our trail and gave a vantage point of where we were shooting. When the guy realized he had been spotted he waved and moved on.
Apr 25, 2020 12:16:09 #
One of my favorite models on UHH. Knowing you had all that busy background and with a static subject, curious why you didn't shoot both ways, cranking up the shutter for shallower DOF on second shots?? By the way, not sure of your software but in PaintShop Pro can change the background DOF in PP.
Apr 25, 2020 21:46:43 #
Last shot looks like the lady is squatting and just about to take a crap. You scouting types are obviously used to using latrines in the wild. Do you take a toilet roll or use leaves and grass like proper outdoor types?
Apr 25, 2020 23:29:37 #
Toleman wrote:
Last shot looks like the lady is squatting and just about to take a crap. You scouting types are obviously used to using latrines in the wild. Do you take a toilet roll or use leaves and grass like proper outdoor types?
She's bent at the waist with her hands on her knees. It's a classic pin-up pose. Even if you thought what you said, you should have kept it to yourself.
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Apr 26, 2020 00:00:07 #
Apr 26, 2020 09:10:32 #
Toleman wrote:
Last shot looks like the lady is squatting and just about to take a crap. You scouting types are obviously used to using latrines in the wild. Do you take a toilet roll or use leaves and grass like proper outdoor types?
You’re new here and so far I’ve seen two posts insulting members work. Give it a rest.
Apr 26, 2020 09:23:13 #
InfiniteISO wrote:
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Wonderful shots. Beautiful model.
Apr 26, 2020 10:38:57 #
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Apr 26, 2020 14:42:56 #
Apr 26, 2020 17:11:44 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter
Loc: Los Angeles
Nice skin tones. Not easy among all that greenery, where the light picks up green tint off the plant life. Curious how you got such excellent skin tones.
Apr 26, 2020 17:12:31 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter
Loc: Los Angeles
Toleman wrote:
Last shot looks like the lady is squatting and just about to take a crap. You scouting types are obviously used to using latrines in the wild. Do you take a toilet roll or use leaves and grass like proper outdoor types?
Perhaps you could share some of your own work?
Apr 26, 2020 19:34:52 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
Nice skin tones. Not easy among all that greenery, where the light picks up green tint off the plant life. Curious how you got such excellent skin tones.
You're right. When you shoot around a lot of vegetation, especially in sunshine, the skin always seems to pick up a green cast. I think part of the success with skin tones here is attributed to the fill flash, and part is from pulling the hue of the greens toward blue, which I probably do too often in outdoor pics. I just hate a predominance of yellow in outdoor photos and one way to mitigate that is to screw with mother nature.
As you can see from the untouched photo below, the skin tones were not bad to begin with, but once you try to increase the exposure, the green cast will start to rear its ugly head. The shot of the lightroom panel shows how much I messed with green to help fix that.
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