Detail is awesome. Excellent exposure by just looking at the highlights in the roses, which are holding very well.
The reflection is lovely also.
I am convinced that within a few more weeks, as owners understand their D200 better, we are going to be exposed to absolutely gorgeous photographs.
Happy New Year to all of you.
William Rodriguez
Miami, Florida.
camerapapi wrote:
Detail is awesome. Excellent exposure by just looking at the highlights in the roses, which are holding very well.
The reflection is lovely also.
I am convinced that within a few more weeks, as owners understand their D200 better, we are going to be exposed to absolutely gorgeous photographs.
Happy New Year to all of you.
William Rodriguez
Miami, Florida.
Thanks for the very kind comments, William. I agree, I think there will be some excellent d200 shots coming down the road. It seems to me to be a very nice compliment to the d2x and d70/50 series.
Hi Kerry. These look great!. What are you using under the flowers to get such an awesome reflection?
BTW...good to see you over here. I have talked with you over at DPReview.
tlong wrote: Hi Kerry. These look great!. What are you using under the flowers to get such an awesome reflection?
BTW...good to see you over here. I have talked with you over at DPReview.
Thanks for the very kind comments, Tracey.
Of course I remember you. IIRC, you bought a d2x but remained a participant in the d70 forum, because of the friendlier atmosphere.
Here's the full dope on this and other like shots, I did recently.
Lighting was achieved with a AAA penlight, in a dark room, for a light painting exercise. The 13 sec exposure was simply a result of experimenting with the shutter speed until I got something similar to what I wanted. :-)
The setup is rather simple. I have a piece of flat, dark, smoked glass. It will "mirror" the flowers or other subjects fairly well, but for these shots, I wanted more, so I puddled water on top of the glass.
The d200 was mounted on a Feisol ct-3401 tripod with a Manfrotto 490 head. I used MLU mode to release the shutter.
The original shot was in RAW, sRGB I, converted in Bibble 4.5 plugin in CS2, resized and sharpened for the web, using LAB mode. Very little post processing was done on the shot, just a slight curves adjustment in LAB mode.
Hi Kerry...that's exactly right on the forum choices
Thanks for the explanation on the setup. I always love to see how shots are made. It sounds like a fun project for the crummy winter days that lie ahead!
I look forward to seeing more of your creative ideas!
tlong wrote:
Hi Kerry...that's exactly right on the forum choices
Thanks for the explanation on the setup. I always love to see how shots are made. It sounds like a fun project for the crummy winter days that lie ahead!
I look forward to seeing more of your creative ideas!
Hi Tracey,
You should give it a try. The crummy winter day issue is precisely the reason I started playing with it.
I was wondering if you were using a pen light on this one as well (you did answer that in your description later in the thread), the lighting seems to have a slightly different character compared to the others. That or my memory is failing (more than likely the latter).
I was wondering if you were using a pen light on this one as well (you did answer that in your description later in the thread), the lighting seems to have a slightly different character compared to the others. That or my memory is failing (more than likely the latter).
Thanks, Rene. There's probably nothing wrong with your memory. All the the shots in this series were experimental, with varying degrees of lighting applied, in slightly different ways. This one probably had substantially more light applied to the exposure, than the others.
Exposures are pretty rough guesses for me, at this point any way, with this technique. I can't really tell how well the exposure was done until downloading into the computer. I seriously doubt that I'd be able to make identical exposures.
