Happy family group hug in the park

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Happy family group hug in the park

Postby mudder on Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:41 pm

G'day,

Had to have a quick play with the 50/F1.8 and SB800, when I noticed this happy native family enjoying a group hug in the park ;-)

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Only PP was a 15% soft light overlay layer in PSCS, no sharpening or anything else... @ F1.8, I seem to have lost the exif I think...

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Postby NetMagi on Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:14 am

not sure why this doesn't have any comments . . .

The exposure looks excellent. With the shinyness of the 'family', I think it would have been easy to over or underexpose, but you didn't.

Only thing I'd change is to try giving it half a degree of rotation counter-clockwise.

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Postby flipfrog on Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:37 am

yeah, sharp shot!

was it hand held??
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Postby mudder on Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:20 am

G'day,
Shoulda tried to get more difference between distance between cam to subject and subject to background for more isolation and less detail in the background but twas just a quick play :-) After seeing the "flaming cold beer" post, a couple of Crownies later and this is the result ;-)

Hand held, with the SB800 on about -1.5 EV I think... The family are highly polished stone so any light tends to reflect strongly... Just trying to sus out the SB800 which is a fantastic flash unit, very flexible so I'm yet to understand how to get the most out of it...

Maybe with the 50/F1.8 I shoulda tried without flash?

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