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Feelin' like spring....now I can use garage lighting again.

New 105VR handheld at 1/10 second, f/3, ISO 100:

NIKON D2Xs    ---    105mm    f/3.0    1/10s    ISO 100

 

Thanks Gordon. Yes....garage lighting is one of the absolute best ways I have found to get great headshot photo's consistently. Looking forward to seeing your shots from this weekend!

Thank you very much Frits!!

Late fall through late winter my garage is a two car garage......warmer weather it's a one car / natural studio garage!:wink:

The garage is *my* domain though (cars are one of my other passions) so it's always neat and orderly!:smile:
Thanks.

Thank you Mr. Gates!

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Thank you Francois!

Thanks a lot Anthony!

Thanks Banhup. I don't have your skills with available light, but I do like the soft diffused glow my garage creates!:smile: It's like a 25' soft box.

Thank you Fred. She's in to hats.....this is one of her favorites.

Yuk....I can't stand a messy garage!!!:wink: :biggrin: Thanks Dianne!

The background created by my bicycle rims and cranks at large aperture is one of my favorite things about shooting in the garage.
Thanks Mike.

Natural light portraits in landscape mode with lots of space just appeal to me. One of the many areas where you and I see eye to eye.
Even in a case like this where the subject is looking to the edge of the frame.....which we all know is a "no-no" right? 

Thanks Graeme.

 

Thanks Stephanie!
Skin tone is something I struggled with for a while and still do occasionally though it's become less of a problem as I have gotten a better understanding of Kelvin Temps for various lights and lighting conditions and how to work my camera properly. This shot was taken in Raw, but the WB is as it came out of the camera. Usually I use an Expodisc to set a pre-WB for each light condition. It seems to work very well as long as you first get your exposure dialed in as perfect as possible using the camera's histogram. The only "secret" I know to good skin tone is understanding how to set the WB in the camera and getting a proper exposure. There are others here who use advanced Photoshop techniques in Lab mode, but that stuff is still Greek to me, though at some point I would like to learn how they do it.

Sharpness is another issue entirely. I have a pretty unorthodox sharpening technique in CS2 or CS3 beta that goes against everything I have read about proper use of USM or Smart Sharpen which I combine with a couple of PP tricks I discovered to help make the eyes pop.

If anyone is interested I'm going to eventually do a tutorial on my sharpening technique.... complete with screen shots. I just have to find the time.

Thanks again.

 

Thanks JD. I really haven't posted many of Sam lately. Thanks for noticing!:smile:

Thank you very much Tom!

Thank you Daniel!!!:smile: