I did a little shoot for my daughter who is turning 18 soon. It's kind of bittersweet, Dads out there would know what I'm talking about. Anyway, here are some pics:
All of them have great DOF. Love the OOF foreground areas in #1 (draws my eyes to the center nicely). #2 & #3 have excellent light. #4 is my least favorite, I'm not a fan of photos I can tell off camera flash was used. Excellent set all in all!
Wonderful set. I'm going with 2 and 4 as my favorites as well. Love that gradient and the colors in the sky in 4. I don't know how you did that with no discernible banding, especially when you resize to a smaller image for posting!
Johnny B Goode wrote:
All of them have great DOF. Love the OOF foreground areas in #1 (draws my eyes to the center nicely). #2 & #3 have excellent light. #4 is my least favorite, I'm not a fan of photos I can tell off camera flash was used. Excellent set all in all!
Thanks Johnny, yeah, the flash is a little strong on #4, I had to resort to a shoot thru.
neighbourboy wrote:
Wonderful set. I'm going with 2 and 4 as my favorites as well. Love that gradient and the colors in the sky in 4. I don't know how you did that with no discernible banding, especially when you resize to a smaller image for posting!
--David
Thanks guys for the nice comments!
David: I Just underexposed the ambient a few stops. Thanks for the kind words!
Dentx wrote:
David: I Just underexposed the ambient a few stops. Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks for the reply, that makes sense, but it seems like any time I have a strong gradient like that where you're either going from one color to another, or between really light and dark, I get really bad banding, where you don't have that smooth gradient, but you can see definite lines between the color/brightness changes. I don't know if that makes sense, but your gradient is so smooth and I can never seem to achieve that.
David, I get banding sometimes too. A little trick to minimize the banding in photoshop is to create a gradient layer and choose gaussian blur. Blur out the banding and then mask it off the other areas where u want to keep the detail.
David, I get banding sometimes too. A little trick to minimize the banding in photoshop is to create a gradient layer and choose gaussian blur. Blur out the banding and then mask it off the other areas where u want to keep the detail.
