Copyright 2008 Matt MortensenWell, I arrived on Wed the 8th, just in time to get here before my grandparents from California. The Hamiltons arrived around midnight and we had an eventful week. It all culminated in a portrait session on Saturday the 18th that took place on multiple locations. I did not make it into many shots, but I think I had the most fun. The three lessons I learned are as follows. 1) using an off-camera flash as a fill light when the key light is an open window results in weird shots with one blurry side and one too-sharp side. A very large diffuser is needed to balance out the quality of light and even then it must be placed very near (12 inches or less) the subject. 2) When shooting large outdoor shots with an entire tree as background, you need a very wide-angle (10 or 12 mm) or to take multiple shots and stitch them together, that way a tighter crop will still have good resolution. And 3) you absolutely must have color management under control when making the print. The same file on different printers will ALWAYS have varying tones!! For this reason I will always require subjects to purchase the prints and not the files. No one will take into consideration that maybe the photographer was excellent but there $99 printer makes bad prints.
I love to learn and I love photography so I am sure I had the most fun on my first portrait session!!!
I love to learn and I love photography so I am sure I had the most fun on my first portrait session!!!
