I suspect Marco's response would be underexpose and fix in photoshop. Its bad enough trying to take photos on the fly without adding maths as well (which I can't do).
Marco and Michaela are totally different in style and in what they concentrate on. Joan and Di would not give you tuppence for Marco!
I find it so much easier to get it right in the camera. I do very little processing now. I dont even do much cropping. When I look through the view-finder I know when I have what I can use.
I watched Casablanca the other night at our montly old fillum night and all I could see were bloody b&w still shots ... Would love to get a shot of an old chinese fella with ciggy smoke curling around his head and out of his nostrils ... yeah yeah forget the health aspects ... THIS IS ART!!
I far prefer to get it right in camera as well, after all that's what we are supposed to be learning, not how to post process. However, with shots like these I feel that I can't spend sufficient time or take sufficient shots to do that. In hindsight, apart from the first shot, I don't think I looked at the histograms. I haven't cropped for weeks.
Once this week is over I'm going to go back and reread my travel photography books. Hopefully now I'll get a lot more out of them. Also need to go back out to the photo shop and buy some more cards, lens hood etc.
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The problem that I think I can see here, is that the foreground - the chess board - is over exposed whereas the man is about right.
How are we meant to overcome that? You meter the two areas and then split the difference some how?
I suspect Marco's response would be underexpose and fix in photoshop. Its bad enough trying to take photos on the fly without adding maths as well (which I can't do).
Marco and Michaela are totally different in style and in what they concentrate on. Joan and Di would not give you tuppence for Marco!
I find it so much easier to get it right in the camera. I do very little processing now. I dont even do much cropping. When I look through the view-finder I know when I have what I can use.
I watched Casablanca the other night at our montly old fillum night and all I could see were bloody b&w still shots ... Would love to get a shot of an old chinese fella with ciggy smoke curling around his head and out of his nostrils ... yeah yeah forget the health aspects ... THIS IS ART!!
I far prefer to get it right in camera as well, after all that's what we are supposed to be learning, not how to post process. However, with shots like these I feel that I can't spend sufficient time or take sufficient shots to do that. In hindsight, apart from the first shot, I don't think I looked at the histograms. I haven't cropped for weeks.
Once this week is over I'm going to go back and reread my travel photography books. Hopefully now I'll get a lot more out of them. Also need to go back out to the photo shop and buy some more cards, lens hood etc.
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