so this shot is blurry but so what? It kicks ass !
This entry was posted
on Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 10:39 am and is filed under fashion photography.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
July 13th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Hello Jason,
I came across your blog and your tips are very helpful for a beginner photographer like me! Since you do a lot of work outdoors, I have a question: when taking your photos outside, how do you expose the sky and background properly? Sometimes I find that the sky becomes over exposed and white or yellowish, but I see lots of outdoor fashion shoots where the is blue, crisp, vibrant, and the clouds are also present in detail. I know that you can go back and add the sky in when you are dealing with a large area to fill, but do you have any tips to get it right while behind the camera?
I can’t wait to use your advice on my next photo venture
thank you!
-ainee
July 15th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Hi Ainee,
I am so sorry for the late reply. Thank you so much for your kind words.
ok first thing you need to remember is that your shutter speed controls your AMBIENT light. So with your question your ambient light would be the sky. So the faster your shutter speed is the darker the ambient light / sky will be. Now when you are using a flash, most slr’s only sync at 250th. If you are using a camera system with a leaf shutter those sync at 500th of a second which is only one stop more.
Now let’s use your camera for example. It syncs at 200th or 250th I think. So how do you expose the sky so it doesn’t wash out ? You close down your aperture. Yes closing down your aperture will make anything in your background sharper but if it is only the sky then it doesn’t matter. If your background includes objects as well as the sky and you want your background to have more blur, then you will have to do that in post.
But there is a solution so that you do not have to blur in post. Don’t use a flash, use a large reflector. then you can set your shutter speed at what ever speed you wish. In this case make sure you set your camera to center weighted metering. Also remember that it is much easier to get the sky blue if you are shooting at 90 degrees from the sun. So if the sun is 12 o’clock, put your subject at either 3 o clock or 9 o clock.
I hope this helps you Ainee. If you still need more help please don’t hesitate to ask me more questions
July 31st, 2008 at 7:21 pm
is that elicia perkins?
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
Yes that is. Do you know her ?
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
yes we had acting class together. she’s a wonderful girl.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I agree, blurry can still totally rock. I wound up snapping some images of my friend’s band a few weekends ago, and certain spots were blurred in one of the images, it turned out so neat, it was one of my favorites from that night of images! Blurry can totally rock a picture!
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:05 am
I couldn’t agree more - BLUR KICKS ASS!!