Photography help.
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- chossy
I am beginning to do some photography and would love a couple of tips on how best to achieve something which I have in mind.
Two hands outstreched as if they are offering you something like some seeds or some soil, so the hands are side by side, finger tips pointing towards you. It will be a close up so it would fill most of the frame but I do not want to break the edges.
I want these hands to come out of darkness so all you see are the hands and then a little of the wrists and some of the cuffs of the jacket. The rest of the image I would like to be black.
I imagine I would shoot this in a dark room then shine a few lights in one spot and pop the hands into this light field?..... am I going to be doing the right thing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
- bolus0
yes, make sure you have some dark sleeves also, if you can find a ray of sunshine the light will be less red... the rest you can probably photoshop.....
- chossy0
I'd like to see a little of the colour in the sleeves I have an olive green jacket which has perfect cuffs for what I want.
- todaysnew0
Look into snoots and grids. They are light modifiers that help you control the degree of spread from a light source. You can use one or the other, or both combined to create light spots of different sizes.
Meter for your brightest highlights. If you're using an in camera meter use spot or center weighted average for your metering mode.
- chossy0
Thanks for that, you lost me after look into but I'll investigate it all and see what happens I'll post up the results in a week or so. Thanks again :).
- slappy0
you can make a grid out of a bunch of black drinking straws and a regular off camera flash.
- Jnr_Madison0
The 101 lessons here are good too:
- I have a ton of gear if you get really stuck (snoots/grids/etc).Jnr_Madison
- monospaced0
Sorry to interrupt, but it feels like you're describing a shot we've all seen. Am I right?
- chossy0
Thanks very much for the help, well it turns out some cunts have already done exactly what I want to do :(
Funeral for a friend.
http://www.7digital.com/artists/…I was going to do this almost exactly for another bands album cover but in the hands would be pine cones. Now I cannot do it as it's exactly the same. I might change it so the hands are dropping cones but I'm pretty annoyed I cannae do it. I will have to change it up a bit :( but I had my heart set on the hands pretty much exactly like the cover in the funeral for a friend shot.
- The_archer0
bastards.....