When shooting film it took a lot of experience and skill with a light meter, to understand what the reading meant and how it would look in the in the final image.
Now with digital we get instant feed back. We can get it close with a light meter and then tweak by eye.
Slowly building the image light by light and seeing the results instantly.
Here we have me building the scene starting with the separation lights, first the stage left, then right and then both together. Finally bringing it all together to create the stunning image at the top.
With all modern cameras now being so good, having instant feed back, we can hone are skills quickly and easily and produce lovely photographs so much easier then in the past.
Nikon has a strong history of iconic manual cameras like the original F and F2, the FM and FM2. I own and use a FM2.
Since the world went autofocus, camera design has evolved to what we have today. Cameras like the Nikon Z9 or Canon R3; amazing cameras that can be highly customised so that every function you personally need can be accessed quickly with the camera still at you eye, so you never need miss a shot.
There is a lot of nostalgia for old style cameras, and certainly for Nikon, the F mount Df was their first step back into their retro heritage. It was basically a Nikon D4 in a retro style body and while never hugely popular it was loved by the few that wanted it.
Fuji have really made the traditional dials and retro look popular, I think Nikon had a surprise success with the new Nikon Zfc. You can see a lot of people using them with the new chipped manual focus Voigtländer glass. It makes a great setup for people wanting to go old school. I see photographers using a Z7/8/9 and the best Nikon Z glass for their professional work and a Zfc when having fun.
Its been rumoured now for over a year that with the success of the Zfc which is a Dx crop format sensor, we will see a full frame version.
It’s likely to happen, but Nikon have some tough choices ahead. Will people pay for a real metal body. Performance wise, keep it cheep with a Z5 sensor and focus, or go higher end, Z7 sensor and the new computing power of the Expeed 7 processor.
Each nice to have drives the price higher. A tough one for Nikon, where do they price this?
Is it any surprise that there is a Leica in my list of cameras I love but do not own. I think the reason I do not have this, is the lens. While I like 28mm for me I would want a 35mm for a general walk around camera like this.
The handling and focusing of this is simply brilliant. Once of the best compact cameras available but it is expensive.
With the release of the Q3 and its 60MP sensor for many gets round the limitations of just having a 28mm lens, cropping to 35 or 50mm still gives you a relatively large file size.
So much to love, build quality, the way you can auto or manually focus so well, just the price against it.
Lightroom import dialogue box can be confusing, there are two options, simple and advance. I have on occasion gotten my import wrong myself, generally importing files to the wrong location but its an easy fix.bad credit loans uk direct lenders
I can think of a couple of other ways of importing photographs but rarely use them. Recently on YouTube I saw this and thought it was a easy way to import if you struggle with the other methods.
The video shows you how but basically create a folder in Lightroom where you want the files to go and then when highlighting that folder select import to this folder.
Simple and easy.
I still use the normal import methods, I have presents that apply things like basic develop settings and metadata which is the advantage of the normal import methods. Creating import, development and location presets to get a lot of the leg work done in advance can really speed up your work flow.
In cinema, colour grading is a big thing to give a mood to a scene. If you watch the matrix movies the colour grading for the scenes in the matrix and outside in the ‘real’ world are very different.
I do occasionally colour grade some one off images but rarely.
But for my last shoot of last year, a lifestyle, and lingerie set, I did some extensive colour grading. The smart modern kitchen set suited it well so I toned the shadows a steely blue, while just giving the highlights a hint of extra warm tone.
With one set of images I combined some in camera work with post. This image above has the cool colour grading of the first but I also used half CTO on a small soft box. The majority of the light in this image is from a large shoot through umbrella, there is then a small soft box with a orange gel on it, to give the warm sunlight look.
With these first two images the colour grading while noticeable is relatively subtle. In this image above the colour grading is more more obvious, its selective colour saturation and grading which gives it a monochrome look.
Lastly a standard black and white image. Even with this, using digital capture there are lots of options available. The image is still made up of the three colour channels and by changing the amount of each and their ratio to each other you can dramatically change an image.
