Snowshoot: costume
Dec. 19th, 2009 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzAs announced on this Journal, we had a photoshoot in the snow on Thursdaynight. I had hoped to find a lot of big flakes falling softly, drenching the world in cold. Instead, the wind caused the snow to be too tiny to really notice in the photos, the poses hard to maintain ("There's snow being blown into my eyes!") and the weather being overall too cold for people.
NoKey was the only one who got really cold though, because he was the only one not in costume (or maybe despite being the only one not in costume?).
The Models: "Snow white" (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alhandra_s) on the left, "Spirit of Christmas Past" (steelweaver) on the right, and "Mistletoe" (janestarz) in the center.
First off, some technobabble.
My camera loves bright sunshine and high ISO values, so I was really challenged to take some passable pictures. And the problem was that I am still somewhat clueless as to how to use the settings. Recipe for disaster? Maybe, but you can brush the pictures up in the GIMP afterwards. Many a cry of "Where's the face?!" was heard, because I couldn't see anything on the LCD screen or through the eyehole.
I worked with a tripod and never used a flash. Instead, we used street lanterns for background lighting and a lantern (candle- or oil) for some additional atmosphere. I had to use a lot of despeckling in the GIMP to get everything looking somewhat normal. Just don't zoom in too much, is what I'm sayin'.
I tried to brush the fleck of light on her forehead away, but I failed miserably because of the speckling. It stands out, and perhaps not in a good way.
My all-out favorite of the set.
Fighting over who gets to hold the lantern.
Finally, very grainy but lovely pose...and camouflage-corset!
NoKey was the only one who got really cold though, because he was the only one not in costume (or maybe despite being the only one not in costume?).
The Models: "Snow white" (
alhandra_s) on the left, "Spirit of Christmas Past" (steelweaver) on the right, and "Mistletoe" (janestarz) in the center.First off, some technobabble.
My camera loves bright sunshine and high ISO values, so I was really challenged to take some passable pictures. And the problem was that I am still somewhat clueless as to how to use the settings. Recipe for disaster? Maybe, but you can brush the pictures up in the GIMP afterwards. Many a cry of "Where's the face?!" was heard, because I couldn't see anything on the LCD screen or through the eyehole.
I worked with a tripod and never used a flash. Instead, we used street lanterns for background lighting and a lantern (candle- or oil) for some additional atmosphere. I had to use a lot of despeckling in the GIMP to get everything looking somewhat normal. Just don't zoom in too much, is what I'm sayin'.
I tried to brush the fleck of light on her forehead away, but I failed miserably because of the speckling. It stands out, and perhaps not in a good way.
My all-out favorite of the set.
Fighting over who gets to hold the lantern.
Finally, very grainy but lovely pose...and camouflage-corset!
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Date: 2009-12-19 01:04 pm (UTC)And it looks like you had great fun making them.
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Date: 2009-12-19 01:12 pm (UTC)Too bad the pictures where I'm eating a leaf didn't work out.
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Date: 2009-12-19 02:31 pm (UTC)They look amazing despite the fact that you had to edit them.
It looked like fun.
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Date: 2009-12-19 05:20 pm (UTC)Using high ISO always leads to much noise. It's practically unavoidable. I do have some reasonable efficient specialized noise reduction software lying here, works better than photoshop and/or the gimp have by default, which we can always try.
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Date: 2009-12-19 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-20 07:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-20 11:50 am (UTC)