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These were taken at a mate's place, just mucking around with off camera flash one day. I had a stofen cap on my flash head and we were just playing with different light angles and stuff.

The raw photos came out a bit bland, as Abby's skin tone was similar to the background and her dress, so there was no real life in the images, until I desaturated and bumped up the contrast a bit.

My wife thinks that I'm doing too much bw photos and we need more colour, but I just can't seem to get good colour, and I kinda like this style. Your thoughts?

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this one is my desktop pic on my laptop at the moment. I wish I had a reflector to light the right side of her face just a bit more.


they were all shot on an 350d with a 50mm1.8, and a 430ex being held by myself or my mate Ben, whoever wasn't taking the photos. I had the aperture on f/11, and I'm so happy with how sharp these pictures are!

Matty,

A couple of pointers that might help you with the colour images.

First of all, have a play with your wb settings. Shoot the same subject but give the wb a bit of a nudge this way or thataway and see if that gives you any sort of an improvement.

Second, pull the flash intensity down a nudge - maybe a third to two-thirds of a stop.

Finally, also try perhaps under exposing a little to pull the colour intensity up a nudge.

I'd be interested to hear if any of that helps.

Thanks Gary, next time I've got some time, I'll give those things a go.