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Indeed, money is a big limitation right now haha, nevertheless your suggestion does sound tempting so I’ll start saving for that. Hopefully by the end of the summer I’ll have some extra money and will be able to buy that system and a new prime. Meanwhile I’ll take a look at the Strobist’s guide. There is a studio with quite some equipment in my school that I can ask about getting access to so I can get some practice.

Thanks again for the help and I’ll probably be back for advise once I start experimenting more with lightning! 🙂

[garcijo]

Hi nesgran, here’s a bit of extra info on the shots:

The photos of the people holding the frames were in a Photo Booth I shot at a school dance. For my setup, I had two LED panels pointing at the booth while I was shooting in the middle; I also had a strobe I borrowed from a friend at the back pointing to the background and was commanding it with my pop-up flash. As for the ambient lightning, since it was a dance there was indeed very little light so I kept the ISO in 400. Overall it was quite challenging to start getting some results since I had never used external lightning before, so it probably took me around an hour before the dance to set everything up haha. The LED panels were at minimum intensity since it was really hard for the people to keep their eyes open otherwise (I had the panels fairly close to myself since there wasn’t too much space either). If you have any suggestions on how to arrange my lightning set better, I would much appreciate that since that has been the only chance I’ve had to play with external lights; hopefully next time I’ll be able to arrange something a bit better 🙂

 

Girl looking out the window, I should have closed my aperture another stop and lower the shutter speed; that was totally my bad. For the roof in the background, I had not realized about it until you pointed it out, now I think I won’t be able to unsee it haha. Same with the chromatic aberration, I didn’t realize before, but I just went back to Lightroom and fixed it

 

For the color run I was indeed quite worried about all that paint flying around. What I ended up doing was covering my lens with a plastig bag which I sealed with an adaptor ring at the front of the lens and with a rubber band at the back, then I covered the body with another plastic bag. Overall the camera stayed quite clean that day.

 

The fashion show was probably the hardest thing I’ve done so far, it was my first time doing something like that so I was quite nervous haha. Overall I guess I have to work on the poses I shoot, I still need to train my eyes better haha. For the focus, I tried to keep my focus point on the models eyes, but I might have still messed it up in a couple of shots.

 

As for the sensor dust that you and camera clicker mention, I did notice it in another of my photos but I haven’t cleaned it since I don’t owe any cleaning accessories yet. I guess I’ll try to get some on my next trip to the camera store.

For my focal length, which both of you mention in some of the shots, I do have realized that 35mm is not the best lens for portraits. Unfortunately that and a very old Nikkor-H 50mm f2. I do want to get my hands on an 85mm f1.8G, but that won’t probably happen until September once I’ve saved enough money.

Thanks a lot to both of you guys for your time and help! I will  try to direct some more portraits at least with my friends along the next couple of months to start getting a better hang out of it, and I’ll definitely see into cleaning that sensor soon( thanks a lot for the links, cameraclicker)!

Cheers!

 

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I took a lot of photos of the animals since it kinda shocked me  and drew my attention, also more than a couple of people started yelling at me  or were just getting rude so I so I had to focus on the stuff they were selling rather than themselves. I also need to try more focal lengths for the portraits. These were all shot with a 35mm so sometimes it was a bit to far. Next time I’ll take another lens with me.

San Juan is a market in Mexico City. It’s supposed to  have really good food and it’s quite  famous among professional chef’s in the city.

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So, I finally did something different from  landscapes , I guess the new shots aren’t really spectacular either but well, I’ll keep practicing!

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I think I get what you guys say, I do have been trying to do more representative shots of the cities lately, although I’m still quite camera shy so I keep missing some shot because of that. I also got robbed recently so I got a bit paranoic about hitting the streets with my camera. But yeah, I’ll definitely take your advices and try to do more than landscapes. Thanks!

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Thanks for your comments ebi! I had never really thought about writing more context to my photos, but I guess I’ll start trying with the next ones. About the pictures where I got that white halo below the sky, the photos were taken with a Coolpix S4300 so they were all JPEG’s, I was also just starting to practice the post-processing of my photos so I didn’t balance them properly. Starting from Dessert Flower and up until Spin I did use my D3100, for those ones I also think I got the hang out of pp a little bit more, although it would be nice to hear what can be improved in those ones since they were more serious photos than the Coolpix ones. Also, some of the film photos (the 6×6 ones) have weird colours and saturation because they were cross processed.

Cameraclicker, thanks too! I’ve been paying a lot more attention to my horizon lines lately and I think they’ve got a lot better, I still miss them by a bit sometimes but correct them at pp. As for the D7100 I’ll try to upload them soon, there’s still some places I wanna shoot before starting editing the photos I’ve taken so far, so I guess I’ll get that done by the next weekend!

I’ll keep an eye on your advices!

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