Wedding Photographer, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Posts tagged danbo
Photography Tutorial – Off Camera Flash
Aug 23rd
Finished shot edited in a retro style Off Camera Flash Tutorial
Hi folks, thought I would post a Photography tutorial about using off camera flash, I have got a wedding photography post to do but have been meaning to do this for a while so thought I would get to it. My models for this tutorial were the two Danbos (Big Dan and Little Dan), they are a photogenic couple, not overly talkative but Consummate professionals, they get the job done. This is the finished shot but I’ll post some setup shots and how I got to the finished article, after the jump.
Vitruvian Danbo
Dec 18th
Vitruvian Danbo
Another quick post from the warm indoors. It’s quite snowy at the moment so will soon be able to get out for some winterscapes but it’s not quite settled yet so I’ve done another Danbo shot. This one was inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. I took the Danbo shot on a clean(ish) back ground and cut him out in Photoshop, it would have been a lot easier to shoot him on a white background and not have to worry about cutting him out but as he has fairly straight edges and a lack of fuzzy hair, the pen tool in Photoshop worked fine. I used one of the shots of the original vitruvian man and just cloned him out and overlayed the Danbo, tweaking the blend mode, opacity and any curves adjustments. I think I did a little colour adjustment to make them match up a little better.
Danbo Walks the Line
Dec 11th
Danbo Walks the Line
I’ve got a bit of a side project at the moment taking photos of these crazy little Japanese toys called Danbo (Japanese for cardboard, I think). They are off a cartoon as far as I can gather and they make great photo subjects. There are quite a few of these types of photos out there on the web so I thought I’d add a couple more. Macrophotography is great for cold, rainy days, as I’ve said before, if the light isn’t great outside or you just can’t really be bothered braving the cold, a cool indoor subject works really well, better than shots of the dog/cat next to the fire anyway. If you have a few flashes and some off camera triggers (either a flash cord, sky ports or pocket wizards) it opens up loads of options and helps you get to grips using small flashes without the stress of having a model, wondering why you keep taking a photo and then scratching your head as you look at the LCD screen. In this shot the Danbo was lit from camera right and the guitar neck was lit from above, I wanted the rest of the room to be dark, as it was a bit messy and I wasn’t in the mood to tidy up! This was taken with a 50mm f1.4 at f/2 ISO100 1/160 with both flashes on about 1/32 power.
