2009/10/29 Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com>: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:37:55PM +0800, David Savage wrote: >> G'day All, >> >> Last one from the beach shoot for a while: >> >> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/disavage/4052053907/> >> >> Direct link (~230kb) >> >> <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2445/4052053907_b86c58ba73_o.jpg> > > Is the orange light coming from a gelled strobe, or the sunset? I suspect > that its a strobe off to camera right, because the background is too > evenly lit for it to be from a fill. > > I just went back to the main page and see that you're using a gold > reflector. > > The model is gorgeous, the pose is nice and I pretty much like the > level of lighting, but I find the weird mix of color balance a little > unsettling.
Yeah it is a bit OTT > As I see it: > There's sunlight on her left shoulder, from behind. That would be > color balanced with the sand. > Most of the light on her face is from a gold reflector, which seems a > bit too gold to me. > Her right arm and leg are in shadow, and color balanced a bit closer > to the background. > > Am I close? 100% correct. > The warm lighting is nice, but maybe a touch too much of a good thing. > I'm also curious how it would look in black and white. > > There's also something weird about the out of focus background when I > look at the large version of the photo, it doesn't seem so odd looking > on the smaller one. The background was masked in Lightroom and the clarity was dialled all the way to -100 to soften it up. It is too much but meh! :-) Thanks for looking & commenting. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
