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martinditchman
March 10, 2017
Great photo Shooting with Natural Light and like the Shadows in the image
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I remember taking this shot of my Son in my office at my home in Bristol (UK) using my very first DLSR on the 7th April 2015.Time
It was around 3pm that day and remember having a little crew (my other children) with me helping with a remote flash gun.Lighting
This was an experiment. I asked two of my sons to come in and take part in helping me practice. My younger son as the subject/model and my eldest to help with the remote flash. so I could practice using the in-built flash on the camera and a remote YongNuo YN-560 III Flashgun. The only way I could get the remote flash to trigger was by firing the in-built flash on my camera, canon 100d. However being so close to the my subject (my son) the power of the in-built flash would be too bright and would cause too much shadowing on the wall behind him. So I used a couple of sheets of paper and placed in front of the pop-up in-built flash on the camera and asked my eldest son to stand to the left of me raising the remote flashgun slightly above me pointing at the subject (my son) at a slight 45 degree angle. So my eldest was my stand/tripod. The asked my son (The subject) to look up at his brother. This very much a DIY job.Equipment
Canon 100d using the built-in flash as a manual trigger. Used a couple sheets of plain paper as a diffuser. Remote YongNuo YN-560 III Flashgun and used my eldest to hold the flash gun as I didn't have a stand or tripod.Inspiration
I was really keen to learn about lighting. I found it very difficult to just take a simple photo inside, and you don't realize how dark it is. So its one of those things, you try finding the answer, 'What is the best setup' or 'Camera setting' but you don't have the exact answer due to the scene I was trying to shoot, so its down to practice.Editing
I loved the dramatic love on my sons face, it was serious, deep in thought, it was like he was thinking about something or something was on his mind. When I took the shot the back wall wasn't great and a little bland. So knocked out the colour to a subtle Black and White to accompany the softer shadows in the picture. Slight sharpening and contract tweaks, Was very impressed with the end results.In my camera bag
Back when this photo was taken, it was just the 100d with the kit lens 18-55mm and 75-300mm plus I had the nifty-50mm 1.8. Now I carry a Canon 6d, canon 24-70mm and canon 70-200mm plus various filters, canon flash gun. Slowly building up a kit and loving jumping to full-frame.Feedback
I am a self taught photographer and still learning and love every aspect of it. I especially love the outdoors, night sky and night time shooting. But this has/is still challenging as sometime you have to compromise your picture by increasing ISO. I found this very difficult with my 100d as the ISO was very noticeable at around 600 iso. But from practice, patients and with using lighting or not in your compositions, you will get there. The amount of time I have taken pictures and they have been dreadful or just not worked, even though I have had a specific type of shot in my head. Its likely down to 'how do I achieve that look'. So I will research and keeping practicing. I found, always shoot in Raw. I always shot in manual mode too as this helps me better understand the camera technically and aesthetically and Practice Practice Practice! I have always taken a view that our lives can be so busy and sometimes we can become ignorant to the things around us which we can take for granted. Take a trip to work for example: you take the same route everyday, your perspective of the journey is the same everyday and things around get blurred or missed. Change your perspective! Doesn't always have to be something or somewhere new. It could be in front of you the whole time, Just change your perspective.