Was asked to take photos of a friend’s car. Turned out okay, but I wish I had a wider lens and more speedlights! But lets not get into that. I’ve come to a realisation, despite what anyone says, it’s not about the body and it’s never about the lens. “But Michael-san what is the key?!” The key kids, is lighting. Let’s all stop worrying about what brand, what body and what lens you have and what that person has. Focus on how light falls on your subject and pay attention to every detail. Avoid hot spots (patches of stray light) and harsh shadows. Make sure your subject is all lit where you want it to be lit.
I am tired of hearing people arguing Nikon and Canon are better than the other or if they are superior than Sony (which they are of course ). Truth be told, all of these cameras produce the same quality and almost identical colours. In this day and age, after it goes through PP (Post Processing), you won’t be able to tell which one comes out of which camera. However, do watch out for noise at high ISO settings. It is ridiculously childish to say that your camera is better than theirs, your “better”camera is not going to help you learn lighting nor will it help you compose better (cue in shattering glass sound effect).
With that, lets enjoy this short photo set.
I took these photos with one SB-900 through a shoot-through umbrella. I set my shutter to open for 8-10 seconds and I walked around the car and flashed my speedlight manually. Probably can be classified as light painting
You certainly don’t want to mess around in this town! Can you imagine yourself being chased by these police cars? I think robbers would give up at the first sight of the Evo X.
Sorry for not posting the day 006 photo but here it is! I’ve taken the liberty of putting into more effort into it this time. Had lots of fun with it, that’s the main thing. I took this with my Nikon D90 and 35mm F1.8G AF-S. The images consisted of a lot of different exposures and compositions, had to cut and paste from numerous amount of images (mainly for the background). The car itself was from one image. So how did I achieve this image you ask? I used a very complicated technique called light painting (/sarcasm).
Cool! Wait.. whaa??
Light painting is pretty much getting your torch out and paint an object with it just like using a paint brush. Set your camera to BULB mode and use a remote trigger. Set the F stop to very high.. say F/13. Then go nuts!
Hi! If you read my previous post you’d know that I had a photo-shoot session with the lovely Angelica which I always confuse with Angela.. (Sorry Ange!). We also had Sarah from Perfectly Beautifulto do the make-up. I don’t know what kind of wand she uses but she certainly had the magic touch. I also invited along James Ottaway to help me with the shoot and lightning. It was a great day, we started from 7am and finished about 11am. By the end of the day we were completely exhausted but satisfied. We had about five different outfits and a lot of different backgrounds thanks to the vast amount of interesting fields at the Brisbane Botanical Garden. Okay so you are probably not reading this and probably looking at photos (hopefully), so here they are….
Was asked to take photos of a friend’s car. Turned out okay, but I wish I had a wider lens and more speedlights! But lets not get into that. I’ve come to a realisation, despite what anyone says, it’s not about the body and it’s never about the lens. “But Michael-san what is the key?!” The key kids, is lighting. Let’s all stop worrying about what brand, what body and what lens you have and what that person has. Focus on how light falls on your subject and pay attention to every detail. Avoid hot spots (patches of stray light) and harsh shadows. Make sure your subject is all lit where you want it to be lit.
). Truth be told, all of these cameras produce the same quality and almost identical colours. In this day and age, after it goes through PP (Post Processing), you won’t be able to tell which one comes out of which camera. However, do watch out for noise at high ISO settings. It is ridiculously childish to say that your camera is better than theirs, your “better”camera is not going to help you learn lighting nor will it help you compose better (cue in shattering glass sound effect).
