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The blown highlight must have shown as a 'blinky' on the camera viewscreen when you took it. I would have switched to spot metering or centre-weighted and centred it on the bright area. The rest of the shot would have been darker, but you could have used 'fill light' in Photoshop RAW edit.
Awww Rick, don't ask me to reveal just how lazy I was ...
I perched the ball on top of a thermos flask (it was just standing there doing nothing) and stood that in front of the stainless steel cooker hob backplate.Originally Posted by Dave Humphries
It was lit by a 6 foot fluorescent tube (above and a little behind camera), plus a dim tungsten rim light came from the cooker hood
Nothing from below, or from the camera direction, except reflected fill from the light coloured kitchen - anything you are seeing is just PP burning (or is it dodging?)
It 'floats' due to PP cloning, not being captured in motion hence the "PSE6" added to the EXIF
The only crop was off the sides to make it square, I'm loving this lens.
I did try taking some with flash, but 'natural' (hah!) was better.
I also tried it in several other locations, but I could see they weren't working, so some conscious effort did go into the composition and lighting, in addition to about 30 mins PP.
Not a quality match to Steve's scouring pad pictures though, he takes far more trouble, but at 23:18:54, I get even lazier than my normal
Thanks,
Last edited by Dave Humphries; 27th July 2010 at 06:37 PM.
Yes, it is all white (some a bit grubby) and the floor is pale laminate.
Lighting is bright but 'spotty' Tungsten Halogen one end and the flood from tube the other, not ideal.
Just noticed I didn't WB the shot
Not as if I didn't have a reference (white band)
In hindsight, I wish I had put a sheet of A4 in front to fill a little more
Rob, I saw the blinkies, but the feather was on the wind and I didn't get another chance, unless I chased the silly thing into the rodeo bull's pasture. I was shooting the riot of this month's blooms on the Blaze Rose, when this feather came wafting through. I caught it, put it in place and shot. Then it was off on its journey, again.
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Pops - your sunset shot - I do like the wee detail in the bottom left of the irrigator. It adds something. Nicely seen and captured.
Thank you Kit. That is the very reason I took a shot of what was otherwise a rather blah evening.
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