Thanks, that was worth the read

:)

Nice..But a little too cold for me.

I am continually amazed at the breadth of knowledge and diversity within this discipline, and many of the members understanding and willingness to share and help educate. This site has really been a great find for me. Thank you to all. Ken[/quote]

I Agree!

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Had to chew on it a bit - but that makes sense

Don't understand it -but see what you mean/1.6x crop with a 50mm (80mm equivalent)_f/5.6 at 10'=2.74'(32.88")......FF with a 80mm=1.67'(20.04") –– The crop camera gains a good foot of DOF over the Full Frame ! http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dof-calculator.htm

I switched to rechargebles, because the flash recovers faster - something to do with lower resistance than non-rechargeables.

Another thing I like about using BBF, is how quickly I can go from 'Auto' to 'Manual' Focus..
....Taking pictures of kids thru a chain link fence, or animals at the zoo, when the 'Auto' focus tries to lock on the fence, just don't push the focus button and 'manually' focus. Normally I would have to pull the camera down from the shot, turn off auto focus on the lens, then try to capture another one.

I know his flash is pretty powerful-but at 24mm I would expect her to be lit up like a christmas tree.
I talked to my cousin, and found this was taken outside off a hotel balcony, he purposely pointed the flash above her head to keep from blasting her.
This may explain why no other details but her face are lit…but doesn't explain what happened to the backlight of the sun ???

Agree with you completely~Whats scary, is this is how the pic came out of the camera :)

If I were to do this in PhotoShop, I would have changed the brightness and contrast on either the background or body first, then changed the proportions of the head before merging the layers. Then I would have probly added a glow around the head making it difficult to see the edges of the hair, and probly added a beach and a palm tree to the foreground giving her some perspective….right now she looks huge compared to that ocean :)

I think this makes a positive difference-and shows there is some distortion going on for sure, let alone the amplifying it with the pose...hot flash/warm sunset etc...
I typically take 200-500 pics per outing, so I have taken 'thousands' of 'Bad' pictures. But I learn more from my bad pictures than my good ones. And I can usually figure out myself what I did wrong...exposure wrong-focus point missed-camera shake-etc...but this one...if I didn't know the source, I wouldn't have given it a second thought that they were not very good with PhotoShop. Thanks for the suggestions & taking the time to "tweak it" :)

Take 5[/quote]
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Sure threw me off. The only thing I can think of is that the original girl was SOOOO dark in the shadows, that the flash virtually overtook the picture and put in daylight on a sunset picture - a blend of red warmth sunset color corrected against a hard blueish daylight flash overexposed. Why the sunlight doesn't show up in her clothes and hair is beyond me.

As I previously stated, I hate flash - never use it, is most often messy and does not deliver the goods. This is a classic example. Natural light - even if you have to reflect it, bend it, chop it, whatever. I belong to a CC - a guy there has 185,000 pictures - never uses flash - his work is brilliant - and he only does people.

Takes more work but the results are astounding.

Cheers,
Take 5[/quote]

Sad thing is, I probly told him to use flash if he wanted to expose on the sunset AND capture the portrait, or else he would end up with a silhouette.

Take 5, I really enjoyed your comments-because you think along the same lines as me :)
But...1) He sent the 'RAW' CR2 file to me(I converted it to 600x400.JPG to upload)
.........2) I "know" he doesn't have PhotoShop, and know he has no working knowledge of Photoshop.(i.e..he doesn't understand 'layers')

What worried me when I saw this picture, is I couldn't put my finger on it-but know something is WRONG, and I want to be sure I don't do this also. I put it in PhotoShop and tried some lens distortion...helped, but still not right..tried playing around with the color temperatures, shadows, cropping, reshaped the top of the head, even monochrome..all helped..but it never came out 'Good'.

There have been several great insights everyone on here has noticed...and I really am taking notes ... But it really isn't a (Poor) PhotoShop job.
Thanks to everyone with all the great advice!


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Thanks CaptainC & Mogul, I'm takin' notes for future reference.
GoofyNewfie, I agree there is something odd about that arm-I'll throw it out there.. to get us "both" sent for the reshoot...But since 'Make a wish' funded this trip, I don't think "our" chances are very good. :)

Thanks, I didn't even consider the pose :)

I'm just not sure what is going on here, My cousin took this picture of his daughter in Hawaii-It seems as if she has been photoshopped into the picture..or maybe her head is too big?
Maybe the sun behind her - Or too close at 24mm caused this?
What do you guys(gals) think?


Canon rebel XSi, 18-55 lens at 24mm,aperture at f/14,with a Nikor Flash.

Somethings not right