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Gerald The Dinosaur ...


For the current Sunday Challenge, which had the theme of high key ... meet Gerald The Dinosaur, not so much T-Rex as Teeny-Rex.
I only intended to use him for a bit of fun after the end of the main shoot, but in the end I wasn't really happy with any of the shots I'd taken of my intended subject. So I'm posting this one of Gerald, albeit somewhat later than intended, rather than miss the challenge altogether.
I'd read that it was difficult to do high key shots inside, but as the weather has been pretty miserable on and off, I elected not to shoot outdoors. I thought that by using a white card background and some daylight lamps I'd be able to pull the effect off ... how wrong I was.
No matter what I did the creamy white object I was trying to shoot was either over exposed and blown around its edges or, if I got it captured cleanly, then the background was off-white going on for grey. I'm guessing then that you either need some studio lights, even rather basic ones, or this technique is best tackled outside in bright sunshine.
Sorry if I sound negative folks, but I've not enjoyed this challenge one little bit and unless I can get some decent lights I don't think I'll be trying it again in a hurry.
In the end this was the best I could get and even then I had to do some processing to get the pure white background.
I only intended to use him for a bit of fun after the end of the main shoot, but in the end I wasn't really happy with any of the shots I'd taken of my intended subject. So I'm posting this one of Gerald, albeit somewhat later than intended, rather than miss the challenge altogether.
I'd read that it was difficult to do high key shots inside, but as the weather has been pretty miserable on and off, I elected not to shoot outdoors. I thought that by using a white card background and some daylight lamps I'd be able to pull the effect off ... how wrong I was.
No matter what I did the creamy white object I was trying to shoot was either over exposed and blown around its edges or, if I got it captured cleanly, then the background was off-white going on for grey. I'm guessing then that you either need some studio lights, even rather basic ones, or this technique is best tackled outside in bright sunshine.
Sorry if I sound negative folks, but I've not enjoyed this challenge one little bit and unless I can get some decent lights I don't think I'll be trying it again in a hurry.
In the end this was the best I could get and even then I had to do some processing to get the pure white background.
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autofantasia club has replied to Valfal clubautofantasia club has replied to Esther clubautofantasia club has replied to %name%Anyway, glad you like it and thanks for not giving me a hard time for giving it a little tweak ... thanks too for the fave! :)
%name% has replied to autofantasia clubI used photo lamps with "Daylight" fluorescent pigtail bulbs in them since I didn't like the light the photo bulbs was creating. I also used the "frost" effect in PicMonkey and that really brightened mine up. It does take some playing around with and I also had a lot of shots that tended to be more gray than white.
(Now I hope this doesn't disappear as IP is having some very weird issues lately.)
autofantasia club has replied to Karen's Place clubAnyway, glad you like it and thanks for the insight into how you approached this one! :)
autofantasia club has replied to Shuttering Yukonautofantasia club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… clubautofantasia club has replied to Janautofantasia club has replied to Graham Chance clubautofantasia club has replied to Indycaver (Norm) clubautofantasia club has replied to Treasa Ui Cionaodha%name% has replied to %name%autofantasia club has replied to Valfal clubautofantasia club has replied to Diederik Santemaautofantasia club has replied to Dida From Augsburg clubI guess sometimes we, or at least I, expect too much and forget that we're all at different levels and that applies to equipment as well as technique! :)
Dida From Augsburg club has replied to autofantasia clubautofantasia club has replied to Chrissy clubautofantasia club has replied to Wierd Folkersma clubautofantasia club has replied to H Cautofantasia club has replied to Gillian Everett clubautofantasia club has replied to Shuttering YukonAs for seeing Gerald again, to be honest I'm not sure ... still trying to think what to shoot ... clock ticking .... urk! ;)
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