A relative in Japan sent this doll that she made to my wife. My relative must be in her 70s. I am planning to send her a picture of the doll. So, I was practicing my strobist portrait techniques on it last night using a Canon 5D with a 90mm tilt-shift lens. Three flashes: Canon 550EX in a Lastolight Ezybox (soft-box), Vivitar 283 with Rogue grid for the hair light, and a snooted Vivitar 283 with purple gel for the background light. Any comments would be much appreciated.
Very nice photo. Good use of lighting, and the purple spot works well. :thumbup: :thumbup:
She did a great job on making the doll and you did a great job on the photo. She will like the picture. Thanks for sharing.
Definitely a sender! I think the photo looks beautiful.
Top-notch photography, in my opinion. Colors are superb! :thumbup:
It's a fabulous photo ... It's so good that you can see all the strings in her outfit. I hate to be the only one that sees the flaws ... there are distracting strings above her right arm and her left shoulder... I would clone them out before printing or sending. I took it into photoshop and cleaned them up .. if you would like to see.
Thank you all for your comments! I'm still learning off-camera flash techniques. I found David Hobby's strobist.blogspot.com site an outstanding site for this.
photogrl57 wrote:
It's a fabulous photo ... It's so good that you can see all the strings in her outfit. I hate to be the only one that sees the flaws ... there are distracting strings above her right arm and her left shoulder... I would clone them out before printing or sending. I took it into photoshop and cleaned them up .. if you would like to see.
You have quite an eye! I didn't notice those before. I will clone those out. I did notice one other flaw that isn't so apparent. I used a shutter speed of 1/200 which is the fastest permissible sync for my Canon 550EX flash (without using high-speed sync). But, when using old Vivitar 283's as slaves, I needed to use 1/160. If you look carefully, you can see a narrow vertical, black strip on the right. It blends in with the black background, so I didn't fix it.
DavidT wrote:
photogrl57 wrote:
It's a fabulous photo ... It's so good that you can see all the strings in her outfit. I hate to be the only one that sees the flaws ... there are distracting strings above her right arm and her left shoulder... I would clone them out before printing or sending. I took it into photoshop and cleaned them up .. if you would like to see.
You have quite an eye! I didn't notice those before. I will clone those out. I did notice one other flaw that isn't so apparent. I used a shutter speed of 1/200 which is the fastest permissible sync for my Canon 550EX flash (without using high-speed sync). But, when using old Vivitar 283's as slaves, I needed to use 1/160. If you look carefully, you can see a narrow vertical, black strip on the right. It blends in with the black background, so I didn't fix it.
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It does blend in well .. not something to worry about in my opinion... but when you do clone and zoom in you will also notice a lot of other clutter stuff around the base .. might be dust or something .... You did really well capturing it though :)
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