Most of this was achieved in Affinity and it was sooooooooooooooooo difficult. I took base and portrait photos on manual, but the 'base' layer was darker and I didn't notice for over an hour of deleteing to a darker layer. Duuhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!.
I took more care on composition and angles, it's just my lack of processing skills that have let me down, but after a morning I've had enough.
We had a go at recreating this one but with my twist to behead Him!!
@stimuloog thank you @merrelyn I'm struggling! I have no Lightroom or Photoshop knowledge of the buttons or controls so a lot is trial with errors, calling a camera club member on WhatsApp!! And a lot of YouTube and sighing!! I was quite pleased with this, but resorted to PhotoScapeX for texture and sepua, as couldn't find on Affinity!! I think it's practice that's required, but it's a faff for everyday use ( at the moment!)
@kali66@salza@summerfield Ladies, as experts in selfies and processing, please could you help me with something that is probably really simple -when you know how!
I took two photos for this, one with us standing there and one without, just the chair- so could erase his head easilly. I used manual settings, but for the blank wall it is much, much darker and I wasn;t aware of light levels changing through the window in between shots. How can i prevent, or at least notice, this difference please?? I've tried to Google- but it doesn't understand my question.
@30pics4jackiesdiamond - i think it is something you adjust in post, at least from experience that's what i do. the slightest movement (i found out a long time ago) affects each shot. that's why i bought a remote control because if i have to move to press the shutter, for some reason the light gets adjusted. @mikegifford probably could explain it better. mike?
as you supposed you need to keep all settings the same, your camera makes choices each time you press the shutter otherwise. i think also the metering mode would have a say, without you in the frame there would have been subtly different light levels. so try fully manual settings , including iso , or if your camera can do exposure bracketing you would get a set of exposures to choose from .
@summerfield@30pics4jackiesdiamond A couple of things could happen here. You mention one, the window light. If the two pics are taken with a lot of time between them, you'll get different lighting. The second is the metering used for the shot. If you use spot metering and use the chair as the metering point or a "grey" source that is in both shots. If you use matrix metering the entire frame is being used for setting the illumination. One way to fix this is during the masking phase/effort (like in PS) you can apply an exposure layer or a curves layer to make the slight adjustments needed to better match both (or even multiple shots). Hope this helps.
@mikegifford thank you Mike for taking time to assist. This editing is very new to me, I sort of guessed it might be due to light changing, but the time difference was moments!!! @kali66 didn't realise camera did its own thing on fully manual!! Thanks for your help!! @summerfield I did 20 second delay!
Thank you all, it's all learning( and getting less stressful using Affinity,!!) and you wonderful mentors here on 365 are THE BEST 😻
@onewing he does
@robz I'm getting quicker at editing
@shepherdmanswife thank you
@wakelys he's a keeper
@koalagardens I wanted to look ramrod straight, but couldn't reach the floor!!!
@haskar goodie
@randystreat Google Victorian headless portraits, they're most spooky
@grammyn that's Kali and her challenges for you
@pistache very kind
@jacqbb took a while, but got there
@arnica17 :)
@lyndamcg I've gone for 90 day trial before buying
@365anne thanks Anne
@blueberry1222 thank you
@kali66 he's so supportive of my 365 habit/ addiction
@merrelyn I'm struggling! I have no Lightroom or Photoshop knowledge of the buttons or controls so a lot is trial with errors, calling a camera club member on WhatsApp!! And a lot of YouTube and sighing!! I was quite pleased with this, but resorted to PhotoScapeX for texture and sepua, as couldn't find on Affinity!! I think it's practice that's required, but it's a faff for everyday use ( at the moment!)
I took two photos for this, one with us standing there and one without, just the chair- so could erase his head easilly. I used manual settings, but for the blank wall it is much, much darker and I wasn;t aware of light levels changing through the window in between shots. How can i prevent, or at least notice, this difference please?? I've tried to Google- but it doesn't understand my question.
@kali66 didn't realise camera did its own thing on fully manual!! Thanks for your help!!
@summerfield I did 20 second delay!
Thank you all, it's all learning( and getting less stressful using Affinity,!!) and you wonderful mentors here on 365 are THE BEST 😻