Test Shoot: Cats and Dogs... and Goats!?
05-05-2007, 02:04 PM
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Test Shoot: Cats and Dogs... and Goats!? It was raining cats and dogs this morning but I wanted to try a few things so I took the Goat out for a few pictures. Obviously I didn't have the best lighting and the car was literally filthy (I wiped the wheels off real quick with a microfiber towel because they had heavy dirt buildup on them from all the rain the past few days).
I personally prefer pictures that are a bit darker and with more contrast but from a technical standpoint they are underexposed slightly, the blacks and darks are a bit crushed, and the contrast is a bit heavy and unnatural. I wanted to take a few pictures to play around with different camera settings and editing techniques to get more "photographically correct" end results. I can say that I still prefer my darker, more dramatic style for most situations but these didn't come out too bad.
For comparison...
A few examples of the darker style:
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http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4826/dsc023ii6.jpg
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http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/6061/dsc0049vn2.jpg
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http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9007/dsc0004vt6.jpg
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http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7779/dsc0033it9.jpg
More technically correct style:
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I personally prefer pictures that are a bit darker and with more contrast but from a technical standpoint they are underexposed slightly, the blacks and darks are a bit crushed, and the contrast is a bit heavy and unnatural. I wanted to take a few pictures to play around with different camera settings and editing techniques to get more "photographically correct" end results. I can say that I still prefer my darker, more dramatic style for most situations but these didn't come out too bad.
For comparison...
A few examples of the darker style:
1
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4826/dsc023ii6.jpg
2
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/6061/dsc0049vn2.jpg
3
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9007/dsc0004vt6.jpg
4
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7779/dsc0033it9.jpg
More technically correct style:
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#6 looks like it belongs in a magazine
05-05-2007, 03:02 PM
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I agree 100% with you! I went to photograohy school for 3 years and have been in the business for 4 years, and some of the finest most dramatic award winning shots that I have ever seen are so far from "fundamentaly correct" that my instructor would have hung me from my ***** if I had tried anything like that! But to me, a half-stop underexposed and ***** out contrast is just perfect for cars. Sometimes all you need is a small kicker flash in the shadows, and it comes out perfect!
#4 is just the **** to me man! I love it!
#4 is just the **** to me man! I love it!
05-05-2007, 03:49 PM
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I jut started changin up the way I take pic to but Im not near as good as you. I usually like the over contrasted look but I did a photoshoot for a buddy and he liked the raw pictures more so I decided to try what you tried. I still like my old ones.
Heres a few
Heres a few
