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chez wrote:
Love them all except for the horse photo. Looks very much like HDR was utilized. Something is definitely off with it.
Thank you!
Yeah the lighting in the shot of the vaquero with his horse is definitely a bit flat. My preference for this type of shot would be a large enough modifier to shape light around both the horse and cowboy, gridded to keep the light from splashing around the walls too much. Because I only had a 24" collapsible beauty dish, I decided to stick to lighting the cowboy plus the horse's head - and when I look at the closer cropped shots of those two elements, I like them better in some ways. The light on the horse has some shape up to its neck, and then beyond that it rapidly gets more diffuse which makes it kind of blend into the background a bit. I suppose this is where my whole approach of spending 2-3 minutes with each of these people occasionally had limitations, especially when setting up lights. The lights though did allow me to retain the blue sky in a natural way (I only did minor "slider" tweaks on the image so this is not a heavily pushed file) but I think the end result is not as 3d as I'd like. Oh well
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