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Sidd, its an led box I made myself in a large soft box, creates a really unique light. I need to modify the box so its easier to move now.

Kory on a white car you can shift the wb if you wanted to remove the colour.

Pez, I'm sure we can work something out. The reflections we'd get off your rims would be erection inducing.:wub: pm me your location.

Hhmmm, i didn't mean shifting the WB.

I meant, would it have a blue glow off the LEDbox or not, but looking at the photo for longer now, it seems there is reflections of the sky. Did you shoot this at sunset?

You doing multiple exposures e.g. light certain parts and blend together or are you lighting it as a whole and doing 1minute + exposures?

It's nice even light, so well done, keep practicing!!!

P.S. My LED light is on its way :)

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Kory, thanks for taking your time to write that and providing further feedback. I guess im still in that mind frame that im still a amateur compared to all these other wedding photographers out there. Once i do a few more i will increase it slightly and keep doing it till im happy. I was thinking of providing albums now. Atleast this time i know exactly what to do and will be a lot less stressed. But I want some time to myself as well.. All i do these days is work my normal fulltime job, come home and work on photos and sleep around 12-1am :) Anyways enough rambling..

90% of wedding photographers don't have any formal training, your shots don't look like an amateur so don't charge like one

problem with digital photography is it was supposed to make it easier for photographers but in actuality it has become way more time consuming... your shooting 10 times as many shots as you would on film and the time spent going through them all in post etc... instead of just dropping film off at the processors and picking it up when its done etc

so don't forget your not just charging for the time spent at the wedding but also time spent in post

good luck with it!

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If you don't shift the wb a white car will have a slightly blue tint. Same as the black car.

That rear shot is 2 roughly one minute exposures. One lighting bottom half and one lighting the top half.

The other light is some ambient light from out side the alley. What you think might be sky is graffiti from behind camera. Shot was taken around 9.

Once you get your light well do a paint session.

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Correcting WB is #1 step in all post processing (Well at least mine).

I meant, the cars paint, will it appear with a slight blue tint (something that is not correctable by changing the WB). But again, i still think that wouldn't happen as it would only affect the WB, but i was just curious thats all.

Yeah for sure, will let you know when i get it!

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Matt, have you got the PCB diagram for your LED box? I'm starting to think about making some lighting up, and I guess LED is as good a place to start as any.

edit: Clutch: NICE! love the macro shots; what's the new lens?

thanks, the fly shot was my first one, so need to learn a bit more to get better quality

i use a tamron 90mm macro with a bellows

i have the dropplet one as my wallpaper, looks even better full size

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Nice shots Clutch! They don't have to be about cars at all! Just photography in general :)

I would love to see the macro shot with more contrast (the water droplet on the leaf). Could definitely bump that up a bit more and bring the greens out and it would probably bring more of the reflection out of the water droplet.

Keep at it, great shots!

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nice macro work man!!!

CPD I just made it on a vero board. I don't have a diagram for it but i could draw you something. it's pretty simple to make if you've got a soldering iron and a couple hours to kill.

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cpd I just made it on a vero board. I don't have a diagram for it but i could draw you something. it's pretty simple to make if you've got a soldering iron and a couple hours to kill.

I've got *decent* soldering skillz... Heh. Vero board is fine; was just worried about resistances etc. My electronics knowledge has gone downhill since high-school; if you've got a quick sketch that'd be awesome.

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thanks guise!

i dont photoshop my images, i just use lightroom to up the exposure and bits and pieces, so cant really change stuff like reflections etc.

Well in that case:

Go to the devlop tab

Put in some general settings like:

Contrast: +35

Clarity: +30

Vibrance: +15

Saturation: +5

Something along those lines is what i normally start out with.

Then go up the where the histogram is and there is a "brush". Its called the adjustment brush.

With this brush you can paint in whatever you want e.g. paint in a -2stop exposure, paint in contrast, paint in clarity etc etc..

Muck around with this. Your pictures could have so much pop once you have figured it out and you'll never look back!

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Yay just bought a Nissin 622 and a the Canon 25 Extender thingy :)

The what and the what???

I'm guessing the Nissin is a flash, but the other thing, is that an extension tube, Owen?

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Hahahah! Sorry, totally suck at describing things sometimes; at the time I was on the lounges at work, haven't been well this arvo.

By extender thing I mean this: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/reviews...-ii-review.aspx

And the Nissin is a flash; someone recommended it to me on my intro thread here, and I thought hey, might as well get a flash (as well as working on an LED softbox). http://www.nissindigital.com/en/Di622.html

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