sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Wow, h2, these are amazing and soooo beautiful! Glad you shared them!

NZBarry

These are great to see, thanks so much for noticing, and for posting, but honestly, if I could could photograph real live people like the ones in No 8, "Stained Glass - Burrell Museum" I would be at the pinnacle of my photographic ability, and I would give up my day job, and dedicate my life to making these types of images. Beautiful set :thumbup:

shimanodave55 Loc: Oklahoma

Those were some fantastic photos you have taken qudo's on the way they were taken

h2 Loc: Glasgow, Scotland.

Cheers sailorsmom and shimanodave55.
Barry, Stained glass is fairly easy to shoot if back-lit with the sun as in the Burrell shot - Give it a go.
Thanks for kind comments.




Hi fantom.
Yes and no.
4 HDR, 3 off-camera flash, 4 natural light - I'll let you work out which is which.

SportsMom Loc: Texas

I love these! What a great place for inspiration of all kinds...

CORNISH Loc: CORNWALL, UK

Excellent shots h2, churches make such good photo subjects, and your's are exceptional mate, Chris

h2 Loc: Glasgow, Scotland.

Cheers SportsMom √



Well thank you kindly, Chris.

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

h2, do you use a flash when shooting a back-lit subject??

h2 Loc: Glasgow, Scotland.

Short answer - Yes.

Depends what you want to achieve.
There are 3 senarios where you may want to shoot a backlit subject :
1. You want the light coming through subject eg
The stain glass window here is backlit and has plenty of light coming through, so doesn't need flash. Same if you were shooting backlit leaf aiming to show dark areas where the veins are - just expose for lightest area on leaf, and the shadow vein areas will be dark, giving a well exposed leaf with lots of detail.

2. You want a silhouette eg
Dark figures against a bright sky or buildings / rocks/hills against a sunset or sunrise. Here just expose for light sky background and you will have your silhouette - again, no flash.

3. Now, the situation you are probably asking about, eg the shot with the angel here (Will probably not be for you, but done with flash in manual (you set power of flash) to give statue light wanted)) or, more what you want to know, it may be someone you are photographing against a light background which will most likely be most times you shoot.
In this situation if you fire off a shot in automatic mode, with no flash, then your camera will probably try to expose for overall scene giving an underexposed subject ( faces too dark) and a slightly over-exposed sky (blown area or very light sky with colour almost washed out).
The amount of over / under exposure on subject / background will depend on whether you have camera set for spot, centre weighted or overall exposure.
Hope that makes sense.

In most people in light background shots, you'll probably have most success with person/s properly exposed if you use:

APERTURE PRIORITY
(set f stop required - ie low f number if you want background blur. Usually to hide bins and rubbish in background etc or if you want that lovely landscape, wedding party showing, a large f number.
Blur Bg f2.8, f3.2 or Bg showing around f22 or higher
CENTRE WEIGHTED METERING (Best chance of subject being properly exposed)
Have FLASH popup UP - ready to fire.

Try experimenting with these settings as a starting point and hopefully most shots will be in the hit zone.

Hope that helps.
Good luck with it.

Cheers

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Wow! Thanks h2!

J V O Loc: Niceville, FL

These are absolutely outstanding!

h2 Loc: Glasgow, Scotland.

Apologies Chris.
Just realised I'd overlooked your post.
Thank you very much for kind comments.

h2 Loc: Glasgow, Scotland.

Hi again JVO.
Nice to hear you enjoyed the shots - Cheers.

briace Loc: liverpool uk

class mate :thumbup: :thumbup:

h2 Loc: Glasgow, Scotland.

Cheers briace.
Thought an old heathen like yourself wouldn't be dropping in to these shots LOL

Only kidding
Cheers