From My Shoot With Jamie

[D Allen Photography]

For those of you who regularily persue the Forums on G1 you will know that I have been having a heck of a time using my PV target. Well, I think I finally have it.

Here are three images from a shoot I did today. This young lady is an incredible model and in my opinion does not take a bad photo. Any screwups are the fault of the photographer (that would be me).

C & C is welcome so please jump right in. Thanks.

[Arbib]

Well, she is beutiful..
I like #3 best...Best pose, and lightiing without washing out her white blouse...

#1 - the pose is OK, but the blouse to blown out and distracting...maybe the lighting was too direct for a white blouse anyway.

#2 - Nice pose, nothing spceical though...

#3 - It all came together for you and her.

Nice Photo's..

[JKlebPhoto]

I'm getting the evil red X on the first one, the third one is great.

[RSStory]

I agree that #3 is the best. I am not thrilled with the highlights on her chin and cheek as the skin around them looks very yellow. I think the pose works very well though.

Scott

[r_fredrick_smith]

#3 is the best. The exposure is better here. You should post a shot of the target so that we can see what spikes your were dealing with. I suspect, you pushed as far right as you could. But the camera LCD's histogram is not as accurate as Photoshop. You need to compare the photoshop histogram to the the camera one. In your case you have clipping in the red channel. So that means you need to not push as far right in your particular case. Also remember that the target gives you the optimum exposure for middle gray. At that point you adjust exposure based on fair skin, middle tones skin, or dark skin tones. So for example, would the right hand exposure example be closer to her natural skin tones:



Cheers,
rfs

[D Allen Photography]

Originally Posted by r_fredrick_smith

#3 is the best. The exposure is better here. You should post a shot of the target so that we can see what spikes your were dealing with. I suspect, you pushed as far right as you could. But the camera LCD's histogram is not as accurate as Photoshop. You need to compare the photoshop histogram to the the camera one. In your case you have clipping in the red channel. So that means you need to not push as far right in your particular case. Also remember that the target gives you the optimum exposure for middle gray. At that point you adjust exposure based on fair skin, middle tones skin, or dark skin tones. So for example, would the right hand exposure example be closer to her natural skin tones:



Cheers,
rfs

Roger:

As usual you are correct. The in camera Histogram showed no clipping but when I uploaded the images to my computer there was clipping in the Photoshop Histogram. I did some testing Saturday afternoon (the shoot was Sunday morning) with the PV Target to see what I needed to do and I guess that learning curve has reared its head again. Now that I have a better idea of how to use the data I get from the Target I feel more comfortable. I will to to post a screen shot of the PS Histogram for you to evaluate. Thanks.

[kombizz]

not bad, although it could be better