Weekly Photo Contest: 2nd- 9th November 2017 - Experimental Lighting

[Hughmac]

Making up the numbers with an older festive shot. Nikon D300, 50mm lens, 1/30 @ f/4.
As far as I remember it looked 'orrible in colour



Lights by Hugh Russell, on Flickr

Cheers

Hugh
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I can see that it was probably pretty busy in color. The B&W helps to cut down on the distraction. I would like to see a little more tone in the image. It falls a bit flat and the bricks are screaming for some texture.

I do like the lines created at the top and bottom. It looks like some of the bulbs are out in the hanging lights. Were they set to twinkle or fade? If so a slower shutter and smaller aperture (and ISO?) might have helped to create some more drama.

Thank you for being nice to my attempt, and I apologise for not trying something new, but time and inspiration got in the way.
So far as I remember they were twinkling lights, so, all points taken and will be learnt from

Congrats to @needfx - if experience tells we will be in for a humdinger next week

Cheers

Hugh

 

[needfx]

new contest is up
time to bake some noodles

 

[Hughmac]

new contest is up
time to bake some noodles

I was right

Time to scratch my head for a while...

Cheers

Hugh

 

[needfx]

I was right

Time to scratch my head for a while...

Cheers

Hugh

not sure if it is "humdinger" material, but it sounds like fun. Wish I could take part

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

You about nailed the focus. The back edge looks just slightly soft. I know tilt can be difficult on a large format camera with a loupe, it must be a bear on a DSLR. Too bad this wasn't a tilt/shift competition, you would be doing well.

I like your use of the snoot but I'm not a fan of the direction. The front light is too close to the angle of the wood grain. It makes it look off to me. You could try to line it up in the same direction, or I would try changing it completely so the angles would be at odds. Run the light from about 10 o'clock to 4 o'clock.

Also try lowering the snoot light so that it is almost parallel with the surface. I bet it would pull out some nice detail in the subject.

Thanks ever so much for the detailed analysis, Jeff! It's truly appreciated. I'll have a play with it tomorrow running the light perpendicular to the woodgrain, am off to go dungeoneering today playing D'n'D.

Getting absolute focus with the DSLR tilt-shift is a bugger, the movements aren't fine enough and jut a fraction of rotation shifts the plane of focus that tiny bit. This was the best I could get across this 6" LuoPan being so close to it. I reckon a 45mm or 90mm tilt-shift might have achieved perfect focus across it as you'd be working further from it.

Nonetheless, I'll have another crack at it tomorrow.

Good judging too, I knew as soon as Patrick posted his that he had set a high benchmark!

 

[anotherscotsman]

Great feedback Laird and congratulations to the worthy winner NeedFx!

 

[heyisti]

Interesting use of light. Is this a crop or double exposure? I'm trying to determine how the foreground lights were added.

I love the glow of the LEDs in her hands. I just wish it continued to her face. If you knocked down the ambient light a couple of stops I think you could get that glow as well as making the background less obtrusive.

The focus works. We can clearly see the model while the hands are moving out of focus.

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Thank you

// no crop or double exposure, this was 1 single image, all i did was just edit the light a bit in lightroom. I use a led light w/battery you can buy at hobby lobby and using a 100mm macro lens and hold the light in front of the lens and capture it. \\

link to light --> https://www.hobbylobby.com/Crafts-Hobbies/Glass-Crafting/Glass-Containers/Tiny-Lites/p/MF50910

here is another example in yellow led

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Very interesting competition, and I thought image was submitted by @needfx superb.

I also liked @Hughmac's shot and thought that of @akash.nu excellent.