Not really. Don't get all excited. But since my thread last week for this particular "series" was titled Compose Yourselves, I thought I should stick with a theme;-)
Anyways, last week I started a discussion about composition, encouraged everyone to post a shot in keeping with that particular topic, be it Rule of Thirds, Leading Lines, whatever particular rule of composition you chose for the shot.
This week I thought I'd ask people to post shots that rely on correct (or not - there's room for rule-breaking) exposure to make the shot.
Now, what I DON'T know about exposure could make for a good sized novella, so feel free, no, in fact - please do - leave any hints, tricks or tips with your posted shots on this thread!
These discussions are for myself and others to learn a thing or two about photography while on this site, so if you're a newbie I'd love to see what ya got, and if you're a "veteran", your advice is much appreciated!
I'll start with a couple of shots; the first one I've blown out the exposure on the sky in order to get the correct exposure on my subject, and I like the way it turned out:)
And in this case I've done the opposite - underexposed the structure in the foreground in order to capture that lovely sky.
Would love to see some of yours now!
I love these threads, they make me look at my calendar and see my photos differently- I so often just shoot and hope it turns out well enough!
Today, though, I had to work on exposure, so it's interesting this thread is up : ) I wanted a picture of candles for about three weeks now- I had seen this beautiful photo of candles on the floor and I wanted to do something with candles since but everything I thought of seemed so boring I hadn't even tried.
So, in the middle of the day in my brightly-lit kitchen I lit a bunch of candles and put them in a muffin tin, then underexposed so that they would look more like they were taken in the dark. It was a lot of fun!
I love to play with longer exposures with lighting. This one was from new years eve. I used the longer exposure to make the sky that orange-y colour, and to capture the firework going up into the air :)
@michaelelliott woooweeee Michael! How did I miss that beauty before? Gorgeous! @echoia I love that you shot those in the middle of the day in bright lighting. I NEVER would have guessed that until reading it. That makes your shot even more beautiful, in my opinion. @lolanae I have a few overexposed shots of Pickle, and I just love what it does to her eyes too! Ali looks divine there!
Underexposed to take colour out of the foreground because it wasn't yet dusk and I wanted a silhouette. Not sure if I've done this right really, all a guess at this stage of my photographic journey.
I often overexpose portraits. Not by a lot - I try to avoid actual highlight clipping - but by enough to reduce detail. It was a trick I learned from my mentor, a very well-respected and successful child portrait photographer.
It is, in essence, taking the "shoot to the right" idea as far as one can go without making a mess of it. That refers to the histogram - shooting to the right places the main peak of the graph at the right, thus having more in the bright areas than the dark areas, with the midtones pushed up rather than being in the midtone area.
@lolanae - it is basically what you did with your first shot.
@jinximages : I'm really impressed, you certainly know how to let overexposure work for you! For some reason, I don't have the guts to try it myself! :-D
@shadowdancer Thank you. :) It takes some getting used-to. I always shoot in full manual mode, and I use spot metering. And, of course, I shoot in raw in case I don't quite nail it (well, amongst other reasons). I generally let the metering show +1/3 to +2/3 metered off my subject's skin or, if they have an olive or darker complexion, a grey card (or using a Sekonic light meter). I hope that helps!
@jinximages : Thanks a lot for your advice, I'll keep that in mind! :-) Need to try that myself. It's not too often that I have the opportunity to photograph people, so I don't have that much practice. But I will try this the next time. :-)
This was quite tricky because of the intensity of the light on the sea so it was probably underexposed a bit to balance the dark silhouette of the foreground.
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Would love to see some of yours now!
Today, though, I had to work on exposure, so it's interesting this thread is up : ) I wanted a picture of candles for about three weeks now- I had seen this beautiful photo of candles on the floor and I wanted to do something with candles since but everything I thought of seemed so boring I hadn't even tried.
So, in the middle of the day in my brightly-lit kitchen I lit a bunch of candles and put them in a muffin tin, then underexposed so that they would look more like they were taken in the dark. It was a lot of fun!
This one was a little underexposed, but thanks to RAW and LR...it got saved
I love to play with longer exposures with lighting. This one was from new years eve. I used the longer exposure to make the sky that orange-y colour, and to capture the firework going up into the air :)
@echoia I love that you shot those in the middle of the day in bright lighting. I NEVER would have guessed that until reading it. That makes your shot even more beautiful, in my opinion.
@lolanae I have a few overexposed shots of Pickle, and I just love what it does to her eyes too! Ali looks divine there!
and this one was underexposed in post to show the texture in the sky
It is, in essence, taking the "shoot to the right" idea as far as one can go without making a mess of it. That refers to the histogram - shooting to the right places the main peak of the graph at the right, thus having more in the bright areas than the dark areas, with the midtones pushed up rather than being in the midtone area.
@lolanae - it is basically what you did with your first shot.
To be honest I have no idea what I did lol just fiddled with everything :)