Donald Darling Jr
September 2023 - YELLOW ON GLASS
About the Image(s)
spent some time doing doing still life work in a spare room a couple years ago. I had a background made from foam core and a black cloth. I had two flash units at different lights and on reduced power. I under exposed the image a bit to see if I could reduce the effect of specular highlight on the glass bottle. The flowers were store-bought for this purpose.
I used Photoshop Elements to do all the processing. I did increase exposure a little at import. I also boosted vibrance. In Elements I used the healing brush to deal with dust spots and some small specular distraction. I sharpened the image with the High Pass filter.
I used a D750 with an 85mm F1.8 lens set to f8. The shutter was 1/125 second.
Thanks for taking care of the Group!
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14 comments posted
Thank you very much. I appreciate your comments! Posted: 09/03/2023 19:46:05
Thank you. Yes, I could have used a diffuser had I thought of it. I appreciate your feedback!
Don Posted: 09/06/2023 13:27:52
(Groups 4 & 31)
What a wonderful image the light control to stop any form of burnout is outstanding my only advice would be to put a 2px white border around the image so it does not run into the background and defines the image,outstanding piece of work love it. Posted: 09/18/2023 15:00:28
Thank you. I expect you are right about putting a border around the frame would enhance the image. Now, I'll just have to figure out how to do that....! Posted: 09/18/2023 15:43:17
How does this look?? Posted: 09/18/2023 16:04:16
(Groups 4 & 31)
Thank you! Posted: 09/25/2023 20:05:49
Thank you very much! The border was Ian's suggestion. That effort made me look into some of the functionality of Adobe Elements. There's a lot that I'm not taking advantage of, and putting borders on images is a useful one to become acquainted with.
Posted: 09/30/2023 19:51:50