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hatetrashmail
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| I am a novice photographer in a college photo I class (black and white photography and printing…). I’ve noticed my indoor pictures have been coming out a bit muddy. Can anybody give me some in depth rules about lighting indoor shots? Or is there a website you know of? |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: lighting help (nonspecific)? |
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| Open up your apature or set for longer shutter speeds. Also, you can try some creative lighting like bounce, fill, strobes or a combo.If you are hand printing, you can do some push processing and change the look of your exposures. |
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J-MaN
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: lighting help (nonspecific)? |
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| Is it your lighting or what your metering. If you meter an extreamly dark area of a composition, the in cam meter will overexpose every time and the converse for an overly bright area, resulting in under exposure. 'Muddy' being foggy, blocked up shadow and mid tone area's ? Meter off a grey card, same light as the subject. |
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nikonfotos100
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: lighting help (nonspecific)? |
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| Are you sure it is not something that you are doing during your developing stage???? If your developer is to warm this can also cause the images to look "muddy". Another would be are you making sure your ISO is matching the setting on your camera. If this is an older camera you are working with you have to set the cameras ISO yourself. If the film is "DX" coded and it is a newer camera it will set the ISO for you.Look at your negatives and if you have various images that have different lighting effects in them but the negatives look dull then there is something wrong with one of the above problems. If the negatives look strong then you might be printing wrong and not exposing your paper long enough. Plus your paper chemistry could be bad (weak or temp is off) or you are not using a hard enough grade paper (3-4) or filter if working with MG paper. It could be you are not metering properly for the photos you are shooting.There could be one of these problems or a combination so have a look and see if it is any of those.Hope this helps,Kevin |
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fhotoace6410
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject: lighting help (nonspecific)? |
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| The rule is always use your light meter and expose the film correctly. The develop your film correctly.Your instructor and text book is all you need to answer your question.It sounds like your images are either under exposed or under developed.Ask you instructor about lighting ratios too. He/she can help you learn how to measure the ratio between your highlights and shadow areas and determine the proper exposure and development for those conditions ... generally you expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights.It could be that the indoor shots you are taking are in very flat lighting and you need to drag out your development to increase the contrast of those shots. |
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