Helena, dancing

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My friend's daughter Helena is just 11. She's been an associate student at the Royal Ballet School for a while now; she'll soon be off to a different boarding school to begin her formal dance training.
I first photographed her about a year ago. She's developed since then.

We didn't have much of a plan for the shoot and I didn't know the location at all, I just knew that it was going to an 'industrial-ish' looking space. Here's some of what we made!

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Anyway.. lots of lights. The B&W are probably the most interesting..
- AD360 in 7" dish pretending to be the sun, just seen
- Small speedlite to wrap the fake sun and cast some light into the eyes, outside and just out of sight behind the shutter
- Smidge of fill bounced off the wall behind the camera.
- AD600Pro in a long throw reflector outside, aimed at the wall and cars opposite to make then go nearly pure white. The background was really messy, I wanted it to go away!
 
juggler said:
Blimey, has something changed on the forum since I lasted posted any pics? These are soft as a mushy thing in a jelly factory.
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Just had the same issue. Ended up putting it on Flickr and linking. Attachments (which I prefer) are compressed all to hell.
 
Flickr with longest side 1024 does the trick, Simon.

As you know, I think these are a lovely, classy set of images. Well done!
 
juggler said:
Thanks! And thanks again!

Is Flickr really the only alternative?
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I have no idea, but I do know that the site system isn’t fit for purpose. I just went with the easiest and that’s Flickr.
 
juggler said:
Is Flickr really the only alternative?
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You do know that you can get 1000 images free on flicker?
If you fill that just start a new new one.
obviously a different email sign in is required

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Is Flickr really the only alternative?
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There is free gallery space right here. ( top title bar)
www.talkphotography.co.uk

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Its also seems that if you have your browser settings to more than 100% that also impacts on the image display.
 
Cobra said:
You do know that you can get 1000 images free on flicker?
If you fill that just start a new new one.
obviously a different email sign in is required


There is free gallery space right here. ( top title bar)
www.talkphotography.co.uk

Media

www.talkphotography.co.uk www.talkphotography.co.uk

How to guide

Its also seems that if you have your browser settings to more than 100% that also impacts on the image display.
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Helpful, thanks, but it does seem that something has changed in the last few months & needs fixing.
 
juggler said:
Helpful, thanks, but it does seem that something has changed in the last few months & needs fixing.
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Nothing has changed or has been changed.
The occasional soft images "compliant" appears from time to time, and is always looked into, with the same result.
Nothing has changed.
 
BTW I did speak to T'other Chris about this, and his comment was
<Xenforo caches all images and probably applies some compression and I guess isn't using the best compression algorithms.>

It does seem to affect some images more than others, and has been noted occasionally for years.

When I did a test, with my images, TP gallery, Flickr & attachments, attachments seemed to be affected more than the other two,
Chris also said that he would look into it. ( but so far nothing is obvious other than the above)
I suggest avoiding attachments if at all possible.
 
Hiya these are lovely. It is a shame the quality is not being diplayed so we can apprecite your hard work.

If you don't mind me asking, how are those lite ?

Gaz
 
cargo said:
Hiya these are lovely. It is a shame the quality is not being diplayed so we can apprecite your hard work.

If you don't mind me asking, how are those lite ?

Gaz
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Cheers Gaz

Colour shots

- Large gridded octa angled steeply down & feathered forward just off Helena. That was a QT1200 for the short flash duration.
- CTB gelled 7" dish camera right, firing behind Helena to make the shutters go blue
- CTO gelled stripbox horizontally for the warm toned fill, the oranges on the shutters & rim light on Helena. TBH that one is rather clumsily positioned, I was trying to make it do 3 jobs at once.
- CTB gelled speedlite camera left - clamped to the pillar you can just see - to put a little more blue on the drape

B&W
- AD360 in 7" dish pretending to be the sun, just seen
- Small speedlite to wrap the fake sun and cast some light into the eyes, outside and just out of sight behind the shutter
- Smidge of fill bounced off the wall behind the camera.
- AD600Pro in a long throw reflector outside, aimed at the wall and cars opposite to make then go nearly pure white. The background was really messy, I wanted it to go away!

They have all been through photoshop, mainly removing background crud but with some dodging and burning & colour work too.
 
juggler said:
Colour shots

- Large gridded octa angled steeply down & feathered forward just off Helena. That was a QT1200 for the short flash duration.
- CTB gelled 7" dish camera right, firing behind Helena to make the shutters go blue
- CTO gelled stripbox horizontally for the warm toned fill, the oranges on the shutters & rim light on Helena. TBH that one is rather clumsily positioned, I was trying to make it do 3 jobs at once.
- CTB gelled speedlite camera left - clamped to the pillar you can just see - to put a little more blue on the drape
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Jeez

That's quite a bit to get your head around.

Always like to see images with that warm and cool feel to them. Plus the wardrobe completes the look.

I really appreciate you taking the time to divulge your process.

Gaz
 
cargo said:
Jeez

That's quite a bit to get your head around.

Always like to see images with that warm and cool feel to them. Plus the wardrobe completes the look.

I really appreciate you taking the time to divulge your process.

Gaz
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It sounds rather complex but the process isn't like that. I don't (often) set out to light a scene with 4 strobes, I do one light at a time until I get the result I was after (or alternatively, one which I just like!)
 
All lovely pictures Simon.

I'm normally a colour person but I do like those last three.

All excellently done :D
 
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