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Thos quick and dirty "family gathering" indoor portraits
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<blockquote data-quote="chipjohns" data-source="post: 225597" data-attributes="member: 17289"><p>excellent exposure Mike. It is great satisfaction when you shoot in manual. TTL is great when moving around a lot, but I prefer manual when in a situation where I can take more control. </p><p></p><p>With busy backgrounds one thing to try is blow it out with defocus as much as possible. Could you have either backed up and zoomed a bit more, or moved the couple further from the wall..? And use the most shallow depth of field you can get.</p><p></p><p>One other thing to try.. drop out the background. First, find the proper shutter speed that will make your background as dark as you can. Then move your flash as close as you can to the subjects. This will allow you to use less power on your flash unit to create as much fall-off as possuble to keep your background darker...</p><p></p><p>Just one more thing. you could have taken a shot a wee bit lower and the pic on the wall may have been lower in the shot so as not to interfere with the subjects head.</p><p></p><p>These however are just sugestions, I'm sure you were a bit distracted by focusing your attention on the exposure. Now that you have the exposure going on, you have mental energy left to focus on the other things.</p><p></p><p>Just suggestions for a different photo; The photo is great the way it is...!</p><p></p><p>Chip</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chipjohns, post: 225597, member: 17289"] excellent exposure Mike. It is great satisfaction when you shoot in manual. TTL is great when moving around a lot, but I prefer manual when in a situation where I can take more control. With busy backgrounds one thing to try is blow it out with defocus as much as possible. Could you have either backed up and zoomed a bit more, or moved the couple further from the wall..? And use the most shallow depth of field you can get. One other thing to try.. drop out the background. First, find the proper shutter speed that will make your background as dark as you can. Then move your flash as close as you can to the subjects. This will allow you to use less power on your flash unit to create as much fall-off as possuble to keep your background darker... Just one more thing. you could have taken a shot a wee bit lower and the pic on the wall may have been lower in the shot so as not to interfere with the subjects head. These however are just sugestions, I'm sure you were a bit distracted by focusing your attention on the exposure. Now that you have the exposure going on, you have mental energy left to focus on the other things. Just suggestions for a different photo; The photo is great the way it is...! Chip [/QUOTE]
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