Recent content by Benson

rookies mentioned indoor portrait in the evening.....wrong light wrong place may be a given? There may be a chance that there is no light to reflect. Finding a room with enough light to shoot at 400iso may not be the answer here, during the day may be by the window or doorway.

Thanks so much, the first picture is of a model with a bit of experience, I have softbox right above her face and 2 flash gun lighting the background. I have just finished shooting with black background and switched to white. I did not re adjust the lighting and just keep shooting. I lost the...

I have been taking photo with just available light for a long time, yes you can get good picture with skill but why mess around with high iso. Having to have expensive high ISO capable camera and reduce noise post processing is a pain in the bum, especially when you got a good shot but end up...

Recent change in my day job allows me to have more time for photography :banana:, I have done a lot of research and watch a lot of you tube videos on studio lighting etc. Slowly and painfully, I am learning. Form my own mistakes and other photographer feedback, I am getting more and more...

Thanks for the comments, there is a bad trend in my photo editing which I will need to change. A bit sloppy at softening the skin and not using masking layer to where it is needed. I shoot at F5 and between 70-200, I will try and use different light setting and use F8 instead as I am not...

Some photo from today in my summer house. What is the popular backdrop material and where to buy from? I am handy with DIY so a mounting system is not a problem. At the moment I am using the cheapo ebay backdrop white/green/black with the backdrop stand. I am looking into getting multi roller...

Now you mentioned it I see the white dot in her eyes. Didn't notice that before :) thanks I shoot in raw and open image in bridge, adjust values then open into Photoshop. May be I should open all the photo as a group and modified the values so they all consistent?

Today at Westminster, early start at 7 and the weather is rubbish! Any feedback welcome, I think it is much better than my last few photoshoot threads.

Totally agree , once you have a few good photo in your portfolio there will be no ends of willing model for practice.

Thanks for the pointer to the lip fix, done the high/lo frequency separation. Not easy to do but I guess it will be once I get used to the logic behind each step rather than trying to remember them.

Not sure we know what we are doing but I was expecting some rip jeans or tight pants, she came with nice skirt and dresses which is nice but not rock? Lesson learnt and will be better prepared next round. She is really pretty and that helps creating pretty pictures. the first picture was a...

My sister's friend who I never met needed some photo done. The brief is Rock Chick but I think that did not went the way she wanted, it ended more like fashion? My last thread was about a photoshoot went not so well in the park involving the police, this time we did it in the safety of my own...

omg, now you mentioned it, they all slightly left higher! Thanks

Always wanted a 24-70 for holiday and I was so nearly gone for the Canon 24-70 2.8L II but the price is just too steep for me. Bought a Tamron 24-70 and first time using this lens ! We had a fun time there and rookie error for not bringing the camera battery charger with me, lucky it is...

We were not hostile in anyway to begin with, we were calm and polite when we explain what we are doing and who we are. She was not interested at all about what I am doing nor made the effort to listen and understand what we trying to tell her, a raging bull will be how I describe her. I would...