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Forrest Attack
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A few weeks ago I posted a some snaps of my toys in an action scene:https://www.photographyireland.net/minatures-toy-photography-action-scene-critique-required-t48164.html
This set was taken quickly, without too much care and attention, mainly as a kind of scouting exerciese to see what to do to do this set more professionally (just better really). A rehersal if you will. I got lots of great feedback from this forum in the aforementioned thread and have put a lot of it to good use in my first set of my collectables (Toys!) that i am actually moderately happy with (see images below).
Challenges:
There were a number of challenges with this particular project.1. Forrest Lighting.
When the sun was oversast, it was perfect lighting, but unfortunately the clouds were racing across the sky so the amount of sunlight was hugely variable. I never realized how difficult it is to shoot in a forrest setting with harsh midday sun comming through the trees. This accounts for the variation in processing for each of the images. i tried to get them similar and that was the best i could do. Im moderatly happy with it.2. Artificial Lighting.
I couldnt get the subjects well lit but luckily inspiration hit and i remembered an article on making a diffuser from a plastic milk container. It was amazing the difference it made.3. Depth of field.I wanted to get all 3 carachters in focus, but keep good seperation from the background. Getting all carachters in focus required F11 or more, which didnt give enough blur of the background initially. It basically came down to using as hi an F value as possible and picking a spot where the background objects were quite a bit back. I actually stuck with F2.8 on this one and i think it worked out ok. not awesome, but ok.
Please let me know what you think, and any critique so that in future i might improve again on such projects.
Stalking its Prey
(larger version here: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7203/6956563367_3326119a92_b.jpg)The Attack!
(larger version here: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6810453800_a4d014b49a_b.jpg)Victory!
(larger version here: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7190/6956562641_7d4d0720fe_b.jpg)These turned out great, just the first one with the left side obscured by the
greenery, maybe wouldn’t have been so noticeable if it were in focus. But well
done and look forward to seeing more.I hope you weren’t spotted, you might get carried away by the men in white coats! :lol:
thanks shutterbug. the aim of the first one was to give the impression the spider was watching from up in a tree. didnt work as well as i had hoped.
i prefer the inside version mainly because (as i said in that thread) the colours of the toys don’t work with the colours of the forest. i see that you saturated the colours a bit but still not working for me, the forest colours take away from the subject. as this is an exercise, hope it was a learning point from you and you don’t have to worry too much.
reading about your effort of making the spider coming down from the trees, i have a suggestion: when you go back to the apartment to re-do the scene again, hang the spider from a fishing thread ;)
i like the exercise, i like your idea
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