Cheers Monster, I’m the eqiv of your dad for my partner. I have to use a roller walker (and soon powered chair - so longer walks!). No last minute fleeing for us! It’s hammering rain here now, so perfect for putting out fires. People are flooding tho - it’s crazy. Thankfully for me, I am not in the worst of it this time! Just bulk rain, and we need that.
So I’ve been meaning to do this for a while but wanted to wait until the PhOTY was over, seeing as this pic was in it and I didn't want it to seem like ‘promotion’
My Blueberry pic was taken as part of an exercise a pro-photographer friend set for me: 3 point lighting assignment.
I don't have space or physical capacity to properly setup what she was asking and I don’t have lights either so I did a really rough version to see what I could manage.
I used the light from my QB array in the tent (that’s from the left), a halogen desklamp on the right and slightly in front, and the flash of the camera was the 3rd point of light.
Before cropping and light tweaking it looked like this.
In the iPad photos app i cropped it, and raised the black point until the black in the background got as close to uniform as I could get it without over-darkening the pic. I may have tweaked the brightness also (but I usually find that less is more with adjustments). I changed the ‘cast’ a little too - to ease the yellowness of the QB.
So I’ve been wanting to post that mostly to help show folks with less photography experience (which is still me, too) that nice photos don’t always (or even often) look slick from the outset.
Final version for 420 ...
I tried to reproduce The shot 2 weeks later and it was ok - but I must have had the front-side light in a different spot because I couldn’t disappear it’S reflection from the background. Not sure i still have that pic...