Awww... cute kitten pics, what the internet has turned into. Good shot of the razor mitten deployment. Nice lighting, looks clean and well focused. These images could grace a bag of cat food. Cool.
The lighting is horrible. There are shadows all over the background paper. In a properly-done setup, there aren't supposed to be any shadows.
My main light was mounted on the camera, with two small slaves high to the right and left. It doesn't look like I had an umbrella on any of them; perhaps I hadn't bought my umbrella yet at that time.
You can see all of this if you look at the shadows on the background paper.
Most of that day's photos aren't good enough for commercial use. But I learned something.
The older I get, the more I know how much I never knew. Photography is a very sophisticated and highly specialized field, something that the average consumer has no idea as to how much goes into making that perfect 'commercial' shot. I hadn't noticed those shadows, focusing solely on the critter. Everyone thinks its easy to take that million-dollar pic, but those Pulitzer winning images that were captured by shear luck are infinitesimally rare.
Awww... cute kitten pics, what the internet has turned into. Good shot of the razor mitten deployment. Nice lighting, looks clean and well focused. These images could grace a bag of cat food. Cool.
The lighting is horrible. There are shadows all over the background paper. In a properly-done setup, there aren't supposed to be any shadows.
My main light was mounted on the camera, with two small slaves high to the right and left. It doesn't look like I had an umbrella on any of them; perhaps I hadn't bought my umbrella yet at that time.
You can see all of this if you look at the shadows on the background paper.
Most of that day's photos aren't good enough for commercial use. But I learned something.
The older I get, the more I know how much I never knew. Photography is a very sophisticated and highly specialized field, something that the average consumer has no idea as to how much goes into making that perfect 'commercial' shot. I hadn't noticed those shadows, focusing solely on the critter. Everyone thinks its easy to take that million-dollar pic, but those Pulitzer winning images that were captured by shear luck are infinitesimally rare.