Olympus e-510 at poor man's home studio

[TonyMaro]

I took these by tossing a brown microfiber blanket over a 6' long table leaning on the wall. I used two light sources - both are $6.95 "auto work lights" from Wal-Mart that I clipped onto the backs of chairs. The light on the right had a 100 watt "Reveal" bulb and the light on the left had a 60 watt "Reveal" to reduce shadows.

I then set the color balance to sunlight on my e-510 and set it to aperture priority at f4.5 with no flash. This resulted in too much red in the images, but it was sort of the look I was after, so I left it that way.

This is my first attempt at portrait photography.



This one, there was too much light on his shirt and too little on his face, but it was the best of the bunch - mostly due to his lack of posing ;-)



I was quite happy that this worked well without a glare on her glasses:



And of course we had to do a few fun shots:

 

[nikonwiz338]

lighting is nice, but id do some adjustment to individual color curves (probably start in blue) in photoshop to get rid of the yellow/red color cast.
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chris!

 

[jpmalohesr]

.... too dark for my taste and the white balance is kind of unsettling, to me anyhow.

 

[Steve Grodin]

This is such a cute photo that I coudn't resist making a color correction. I opened it in CS3 Camera Raw and adjusted the temperature and tint.



Steve

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[TonyMaro]

Ah - that looks much nicer. I'll see what I can do with the others.

Thanks for everyone's feedback on these.

 

[TonyMaro]

And a new one from the "fun" batch:

 

[jpmalohesr]

... thanks

Season's Greetings

Jim