cheep photography course

[mcgee9t2]

second one youve put there dubfan had someones arm into it and i didnt realise untill ide got home so it was either have a arm in the pic or crop it out, can actually still see the arm in the bottom corner a little...

and yep i agree with what you said on the last one.

[Mr_F]

yeah that last one looked like you got side tracked by the bridge....


Seems you were already starting to take more interest in the background and not the towie models.

[the_stink]

the thing is its all practise at the end of the day, one of the key things is composition, you could have the best model but if the composition is crap so will the image.

for me some of the images don't look as sharp as they could be alot of soft focus nto sure if that was PP or in camera.

the only other thing I can see if the lighting, some of the photos the models faces are quite under exposed compared to the background. most likely due to the light coming through the window but no light source to actually light the model

but all you can do is keep taking photos and get feed back its a big learning curve but keep at it

[DubFan]

Stink is right. Composition is the key. You can make anything or anyone look interesting if you compose the shot right. And if you don't compose the shot well, then you can make the prettiest person or scene look naff.

As Stink also said, lighting is very important. Get the light on the subject right, then you don't have to bump the ISO up or widen the aperture so much. Even if your lens is capable of taking a shot in low light at f1.8, that's very wide and will give you a softer shot, which may not help. Also if you shoot at a f1.8 you need to sure that your focus is bang on, because your depth of field is so much shallower.

Even if you don't have studio lights, or your outdoors you can improve the light on the subject by turning them around to the light, or using a reflector or using off-camera flash to fill in the dark areas.

[the_stink]

Even if you don't have studio lights, or your outdoors you can improve the light on the subject by turning them around to the light, or using a reflector or using off-camera flash to fill in the dark areas.

exactly this, I would of hoped that on the course they would of given some guidance around how to get the best results and knowing where the light source is even if its natural light so that you get teh best possible shot

out of interest how did they run the course, did you just turn up and then they let everyone go snap happy?

[mcgee9t2]

Even if you don't have studio lights, or your outdoors you can improve the light on the subject by turning them around to the light, or using a reflector or using off-camera flash to fill in the dark areas.

exactly this, I would of hoped that on the course they would of given some guidance around how to get the best results and knowing where the light source is even if its natural light so that you get teh best possible shot

out of interest how did they run the course, did you just turn up and then they let everyone go snap happy?

nah was ran by two ex models who then turned into model photographers then set up this company. they brought everyone in and split everyone up into groups of what level they were at. then took us out side. gave us each a "model" and explained a few things, explained about how to talk to them (not to just stand there and not say anything or spend ages reveiwing each shot so they think theyve done something wrong ect.) how to position a model and spot surroundings, then said if you dont feel comfortable with the manual mode start off on auto have a bit of practice getting to grips with photographing a model. then later on reveiwed some of our pics and went through how we could improve them ect. then took us back out and the people who couldnt use there camera in manual mode they showed them how to use it and what the functions do ect. then again let us practice taking pictures with the models and they walked around had a look at a few of our pics and a watched how we were comunicating with them and if they thought we could do something better i.e move them slightly around so the light was better ect then explain that.

was pretty well ran imo.

however the only problem is there was about 15 people on this course, so we were split up into groups of 5, had one main photographer and 4 background then the main photographer would change every 5 mins, the main photographer was the one who would comunicate with the model and say do this do that ect. the others had the choise of either standing and watching or taking pics themself. but because there was 5 people trying to take pics it became a bit harder with people getting in the way or what not.

[the_stink]

ahh i see well sounds like they had the right idea then and i can imagine it was pretty hectic with 5 people all trying to take photos at the same time!

as you mentioned its all about communication as well which i must admitt is still something im working on but once you get going it all becomes a bit easier

[mcgee9t2]

yeah the comunication was the main aim of the course, like obviously they had bits and bobs on the technical side and the compositions and all that kinda stuff. but hey for £30 you cant complain.