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Two Photos Rejected for Poor Lighting/White Balance
EricBullerPhotography:
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--- Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on September 13, 2016, 13:06 ---Yes, that's much better. Now you need to learn about "commercial value".
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I'm open to any resources or advice you have to offer, Sean. :)
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Go look at any magazine or website and see what images they use. Images found there often have (high?) commercial value. So if you were going to take photos of small objects, it should be things that are often used by people in real life. For example, smart phones, beer bottles, cup of coffee, coffee beans, small plant, post it pads, pen, food, vegetables, fruit, notebook, clipboard, laptop, monitor, stack of towels, different color pens together, etc.
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Thanks for the constructive feedback. I will definitely take this into consideration as I make my shoot list.
BaldricksTrousers:
By the way, glass objects are one of the hardest things to light correctly. If you are going to shoot still life with glass in it you need to study how the lighting should be done and get lots of practice until you can get it right almost automatically. For one thing, your background here was under-exposed, you need to light a white background separately from the main subject, so move the background further back and use a slave flash that's shielded from the subject to get the background white. You can't just increase the power of the lightbox (or open the aperture) to make the background white because the inverse square law means that correctly exposing the background from a single light means that the foreground will be over-exposed (because there is a significant difference in the distance of the two from the light source).
If you use daylight you don't have the same problem, because both the subject and the background will be 92 million miles from the light source and even if one is six feet further away from the sun it makes sqat-diddly difference as a percentage. But then you have issues such as diffusing the light and getting it coming from the correct angle.
Oh, and don't light the subject from straight in front, light from an angle to emphasise textures, and use reflectors to balance the fall-off in light across the frame.
EricBullerPhotography:
--- Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on September 14, 2016, 03:32 ---By the way, glass objects are one of the hardest things to light correctly. If you are going to shoot still life with glass in it you need to study how the lighting should be done and get lots of practice until you can get it right almost automatically. For one thing, your background here was under-exposed, you need to light a white background separately from the main subject, so move the background further back and use a slave flash that's shielded from the subject to get the background white. You can't just increase the power of the lightbox (or open the aperture) to make the background white because the inverse square law means that correctly exposing the background from a single light means that the foreground will be over-exposed (because there is a significant difference in the distance of the two from the light source).
If you use daylight you don't have the same problem, because both the subject and the background will be 92 million miles from the light source and even if one is six feet further away from the sun it makes sqat-diddly difference as a percentage. But then you have issues such as diffusing the light and getting it coming from the correct angle.
Oh, and don't light the subject from straight in front, light from an angle to emphasise textures, and use reflectors to balance the fall-off in light across the frame.
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Great Advice, thanks! How much do I owe you? ;)
skyfish:
BTW there is a commercial value. This photo is a perfect match for some blogs, i saw articles exactly related to collection of pieces of glass on beaches!
Mantis:
--- Quote from: EricBullerPhotography on September 14, 2016, 12:57 ---
--- Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on September 14, 2016, 03:32 ---By the way, glass objects are one of the hardest things to light correctly. If you are going to shoot still life with glass in it you need to study how the lighting should be done and get lots of practice until you can get it right almost automatically. For one thing, your background here was under-exposed, you need to light a white background separately from the main subject, so move the background further back and use a slave flash that's shielded from the subject to get the background white. You can't just increase the power of the lightbox (or open the aperture) to make the background white because the inverse square law means that correctly exposing the background from a single light means that the foreground will be over-exposed (because there is a significant difference in the distance of the two from the light source).
If you use daylight you don't have the same problem, because both the subject and the background will be 92 million miles from the light source and even if one is six feet further away from the sun it makes sqat-diddly difference as a percentage. But then you have issues such as diffusing the light and getting it coming from the correct angle.
Oh, and don't light the subject from straight in front, light from an angle to emphasise textures, and use reflectors to balance the fall-off in light across the frame.
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Great Advice, thanks! How much do I owe you? ;)
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38 cents ;D
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