p.50 #8 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
AGeoJO wrote:
Wow, Adam, what a lovely image! You did everything wonderfully here.
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From a few weeks ago...
Thank you for the kind words! And for maintaining this thread, which has been an invaluable resource for improving my portrait photography. A good group I must say.
p.50 #10 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
This is awesome. It’s so easy to overdo the light in the evening and end up with that “point and shoot flash in the dark” look but this works really nicely.
p.50 #11 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
Changing a bit from my usual lady models to model Ethan in this moody portrait with the Sigma 35mm 1.2
This one is always hard to post in social media because on calibrated editing monitors it looks as I intended with some shadow detail clearly visible but it seems many OLED screens just crush the blacks big time.
p.50 #14 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
My first session with a dancer - a classically trained ballerina. I'm not an expert on the science of this, but somehow was able to freeze the action at 1/60 shutter speed (my original goal at this point in the session was to get some motion blur...). I think it is the speed of the strobe that does it. I'm sure someone else knows more than I do about it.
p.50 #15 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
Even if not intended it’s a great capture. But, yea, if there wasn’t really any ambient light, then the strobe was doing all the work to light the scene. With a short enough flash duration and no especially crazy movement (a graceful leap vs. a boxer’s flying fist) it’ll freeze just fine.
abadger wrote:
My first session with a dancer - a classically trained ballerina. I'm not an expert on the science of this, but somehow was able to freeze the action at 1/60 shutter speed (my original goal at this point in the session was to get some motion blur...). I think it is the speed of the strobe that does it. I'm sure someone else knows more than I do about it.
p.50 #16 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
abadger wrote:
My first session with a dancer - a classically trained ballerina. I'm not an expert on the science of this, but somehow was able to freeze the action at 1/60 shutter speed (my original goal at this point in the session was to get some motion blur...). I think it is the speed of the strobe that does it. I'm sure someone else knows more than I do about it.
p.50 #17 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
GabrielPhoto wrote:
Changing a bit from my usual lady models to model Ethan in this moody portrait with the Sigma 35mm 1.2
This one is always hard to post in social media because on calibrated editing monitors it looks as I intended with some shadow detail clearly visible but it seems many OLED screens just crush the blacks big time.
I really like this shot...the lighting is great, nice control. The blacks are a crushed on both my retina Macbook and my OLED PC...but his left leg/foot are simply missing below the knee on my OLED laptop. Also, is right leg has kind of gone missing so it looks like he's hanging his arm in the air, whereas I can see his leg on my Macbook. Great illustration of the difficulty in getting the result you want/edited for displayed correctly online!
p.50 #18 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
Indeed is frustrating specially in shots like this one where you want a very specific look for the drama but your calibrated monitors are not an indication of most displays people are using in many cases so guess for this shots I will edit lighter than I want then check in my phone and tablet (both oled) and tweak. A good excuse to add an oled monitor to my desktop editing station 😁
Thanks a lot for the feedback and kind words.
Dave Sanders wrote:
I really like this shot...the lighting is great, nice control. The blacks are a crushed on both my retina Macbook and my OLED PC...but his left leg/foot are simply missing below the knee on my OLED laptop. Also, is right leg has kind of gone missing so it looks like he's hanging his arm in the air, whereas I can see his leg on my Macbook. Great illustration of the difficulty in getting the result you want/edited for displayed correctly online!
p.50 #19 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
Very very good man! Yeah if you are trying to get some motion blur AND freeze the subject, you need more ambient that is illuminating the subject enough to register in the exposure. It’s a tricky thing to nail the balance but whenever I’ve seen it done well, it looks awesome! Definitely lots of fun and funkiness to be had mixing ambient/continuous with flash. I need to play with it some more!
abadger wrote:
My first session with a dancer - a classically trained ballerina. I'm not an expert on the science of this, but somehow was able to freeze the action at 1/60 shutter speed (my original goal at this point in the session was to get some motion blur...). I think it is the speed of the strobe that does it. I'm sure someone else knows more than I do about it.
p.50 #20 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
fuzzykeys wrote:
Very very good man! Yeah if you are trying to get some motion blur AND freeze the subject, you need more ambient that is illuminating the subject enough to register in the exposure. It’s a tricky thing to nail the balance but whenever I’ve seen it done well, it looks awesome! Definitely lots of fun and funkiness to be had mixing ambient/continuous with flash. I need to play with it some more!
There is always next time...I was happy with the result even if it wasn't what I was originally going for. Thanks for the feedback. Next time I would like to try out the 'multi' setting on the strobe for dance movements. I wasn't confident enough with that to use it this time.
Side question, has anyone ever experienced an issue where the photo gets suddenly over exposed during a session with no change in settings? I'll be taking a bunch of shots and then they all of a sudden start to get blown out to an extreme. The only way to fix it is to adjust the F stop setting on camera. Change it from 7.1 back to 6.3 and then back to 7.1 again and it is fine.
My theory is that my trigger is a bit loose when I adjust to portrait orientation and gets disconnected/reconnected - doesn't seem to be lens dependent. Any ideas or similar experience? Or is there a better place to post about the issue?
