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For the first time this year it’s time again to do a freestyle drawing. I got some nice responses on this series so I will continue with this.
This time I decided to do a a girl in a pretty boring evening dress. Boring because it doesn’t accentuate a lot of the body so we are really fast done with the shape here.
Traci told me via Google+ that she got lost when she watched my former video on Investigating the Scene before doing a shoot.
I should have mentioned that knowledge of the exposure triangle is mandatory in order to understand the explanation in mentioned video.
Even though there are plenty explanations of this triangle available on-line I decided to do my own in order to make the whole thing complete.
Enjoy:
If you consider doing a shoot at a bird show and you want to come home with a little more than the usual snap shot you probably want to prepare yourself and your camera settings for the shoot beforehand.
If you shoot with an aperture of f2.8 or even shallower, you know that it can happen that your subject(s) can get out of focus by leaving the focal pane. This happens easily if you’ve set your AF to Single or One Shot instead of Continuous or AI Servo.
Even though you can usually do with Single or One Shot AF and lock your focus when doing portraits it can get tricky in combination with a shallow depth of field like mentioned above. This is especially true when an animal is involved that can change the setting in an instance.
A tong over a face is enough for a dog to achieve something like that.
However, if it happens there is still a good chance to save the image. This is where today’s edit start. Let’s have a look:
There are many questions on the differences between the Debut and EX version of Manga Studio. In todays video I talk about the main differences when it comes to the export file formats.
As some of you told me that they like my RAW-edits I decided to participate in another one. This time it’s a challenge but this is not the reason to do this. I can’t use the prize anyway.
This week the RAW image was taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and I first edit it in Lightroom before I give it my finishing touch in Photoshop.
Can a Chibi-like or chubby character be sexy? Of course this will always lay in the eyes of the beholder, just as the fact that a perfectly beautiful person isn’t necessary sexy and vice versa.
Anyway, before I become to philosophic on this topic I want to dive into a chibi-like drawing. The reason for this is that I’m asked if I could do a video on a female character in they style of the one from the music video of the Studio Killers (you can watch it at the bottom of this post).
This weeks RAW image is of a cute dog that is nearly as cute as my dog Daisy so I couldn’t resist doing the screen cast that Jared asked for. Besides this is was taken with a Canon EOS 1D Mark III (another $8000,- monster) with a 85mm 1.2 at f1.2 and I was very curious about this RAW-file.
So let’s have a look at my little (not so fancy) edit: