Editing Comparisions

A) Exposure increased in ACR -PSE7.

B)Same as above - Converted to BW, Portrait, Contrast increased.

c)Back to first photo, Exposure decreased, but fill light was increased.  I feel it leaves a softer glow on the skin.

D) Same as C: converted to BW - portrait increased contrast.

Stats:D90, 18-105 @ 85, ISO400, 1/60th f5.6
editing done in PSE 7.
Later i'm wanting to do the same in lightroom (maybe next week I can get it) and compare them.

Enjoy.



Never turn down a photo op...

Nothing like an impromptu photo op.  Had to find some interesting locations around the house (notice the breaker box that I couldn't edit out properly.) Had one flash on the floor  and one flash with a lumiquest diffuser straight on Aly, hence the shadow.  I really like the shadow in this image. Both flashes set as slaves. The one on the floor -1 and the on camera flash as a -2.

It was a good learning experience, as always. And fun to boot.

Stats:D90, 18-105 @26mm, 400 ISO, 1/60th, f4, should be Apeture priorty mode

enjoy.

Dirty Face #34 & #35

Henry loves peas!
This is a shot with a sidelight set on the table about 5 feet away. Using Nikons CLS to take care of the amount of light needed. In this first photo, I have the on camera flash set as sender only and not contributing to photo.  Interestingly you can still see the flash reflection in the eye.  I wonder how that works....

in #35 here, the on camera flash is set to TTL -1 exposure.

Ok my primary focus here is taking a quick practice with the flash and controller and seeing how light changes.  Not taking too many to not distract Henry from eating.  As you can tell, he is about foundered the way it is.

Ok, technically, Should I get 2 photos here that count? Maybe not, but I don't care :)  1000 is a long way away.

Both photos were opened in ACR and exposure was adjusted to just below blown highlights.  Vibrance increased to +40

Enjoy.

Stats:

D90, 18-105mm VR, F8, 1/60, 48mm focal length. ISO 400



Lillie

Lillie has been a willing model and pays in drools and spit-bubbles..  The best type of currency.

Lillie loves to smile and laugh, except when I put the camera in front of her.  She finds the boys hilarious, but the jump on me or stand in front of the camera so I rarely get a photo with a big smile.  I think I creep her out with a large black lens growing out of my forehead.  Don't worry, it creeps me out too.  Again you can see the vignetting caused by the 18-105 lens.  I am shooting with a large bedsheet diffusing a sb-600 camera right. Set CLS, i-ttl.  this is with the reflector on Lillies left.  The large window behind me is still letting in ample ambient light.  WB is set to Cloudy.

Stats: D90, 18-105; apeture priorty, ittl-CLS, ISO-400, 1/160, f5.6 EV=+0.7, 105 mm,  WB-Cloudy

All of Lillies bows come from Lillie Bug Designs

This photo comes as I set up a second flash umbrella'd, camera left to act as fill.  I also position a moderate size black posterboard directly to the left of lillie. Less vignetting because I'm not zooming in full.

Stats: D90, 18-105; apeture priorty, ittl-CLS, ISO-400, 1/160, f5.3 EV=+0.7, 62 mm,

Stats: D90, 18-105; apeture priorty, ittl-CLS, ISO-400, 1/160, f5.3 EV=+0.7, 105 mm, WB-Cloudy

Ok, i opted to post this one instead of the photo with the spit-bubbles. :)
Stats: D90, 18-105; apeture priorty, ittl-CLS, ISO-400, 1/160, f5.3 EV=+0.7, 105 mm, WB-Cloudy

Love the hat, unfortunately Lillie didn't.  Only was able to snap one photo and I thought it was a keeper.
Stats: D90, 18-105; apeture priorty, ittl-CLS, ISO-400, 1/160, f5.3 EV=+0.7, 80mm, WB-Cloudy

All of Lilles photos were loaded into ACR where I increased vibrance to +40 (10 less than Hank because hank needed the extra help) and increased in exposure to just below clipping of highlights. Color and luminance noise reduction was set to 40. The files were then opened in PSE 7 where the eyes were dodged 30% mid-tones. Photos were then sharpened.

Enjoy

Henry

Henry and his cousin Lillie are just a few days apart in age.  So it stands to reason when I snap photos of one, the other gets to join in.  Even though Lillie is older, Henry is nearly twice her size. 

Stats: D90, 18-105; apeture priorty, ittl-CLS, ISO-400, 1/160, f5.3 EV=0 80 mm.

In setting up these photos, we had a overcast evening prior to the sunset.  I opened up all my windows to my large north facing window.  Used clamps to hang a white bedsheet from the bookshelf and curtain rods.  Placed a SB-600 behind the sheet.  Moved the recliner and position the kids against the wall.  This put my back to the window and flash camera right.  I used my silver reflector, which is a window sunlight reflector from walmart.  to help with some fill. 

Stats: D90, 18-105; apeture priorty, ittl-CLS, ISO-400, 1/160, f5.3 EV=0, 62 mm.

Love this pose. Had to change blankets after Hank decided to hose it down.  By this time the evening light was goign too weak so I added an umbrella'd Sb-600 to camera left.  I dialed it down to a EV=-0.7 i think. I then placed a medium sized black posterboard directly to hanks left (front here) to help with shadows.

Neither kid has taken to crawling yet, but sitting and pushups seem to be old hat.  With the 105 zoomed in you can begin seeing some vignetting in this image.  I didn't mind the effect because I felt it may be something I'd have down in Lightroom (had I owned it) anyway.

Stats: D90, 18-105; apeture priorty, ittl-CLS, ISO-400, 1/160, f5.6 EV=+0.7, 105 mm,

This was one of the last photos we shot that evening.  Hank was in his PJ's, and we were trying different hats on Lillie, but she wasn't happy about it.  So to get a photo in the fedora we tossed Hank down and snapped another couple.

Stats: D90, 18-105; apeture priorty, ittl-CLS, ISO-400, 1/160, f5.6 EV=+0.7, 105 mm,

All photos shot in Raw, Vibrance was increased to 50, exposure was brought up just shy of clipping.  As mentioned earlier that my monitor is somewhat lacking, I trusted the exposure histogram to make my decision on exposure.  Luminance and Color noise was raised to 40. Images were then opened in PSE 7 where the eyes were dodged 30% midtones. Photos were then sharpened.

Enjoy.