Exercise-1-2

    Using my DSLR + tripod + remote + flash to recreate a shot taken with my point & shoot.

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    1. 2inches (55 months ago | reply)

      you should go easy. might hurt yourself

    2. Tinnytintin (55 months ago | reply)

      Nice re-creation! I like how your hair, the watch, shirt, glasses and wall are all neutral colors and your skin isn't. How difficult was it for you to get this shot?

    3. ancawonka (55 months ago | reply)

      What lens did you use here?

    4. aneel (55 months ago | reply)

      Heh. I actually changed my shirt so that it would be more neutral.

      If I weren't the one in the picture, I think it would have been pretty easy to get the shot. Technically, it's pretty straightforward. The only adjustment I had to make after the basic framing was to use a smaller aperture to get more of the photo in focus.

      The hard part was composition. Standing in front of the camera, arranging the shot, shooting, going over to look at the result, going back in front of the camera, positioning myself slightly differently...

      I was trying for a few specific things, compositionally, and I feel like I only partially succeeded.

      I wanted to get the rubber band to form a line from my eye to the viewer. However, it turned out that that foreshortened the rubber band until there was no sense of "stretching".

      I also wanted to show my rear arm pulled back. The framing didn't really work for that, though.

    5. aneel (55 months ago | reply)

      It's my 18-200mm lens. But maybe I should have used my 50mm, since it's so close to 50mm anyway. Might have been a tiny bit sharper.

    6. g-na (55 months ago | reply)

      I like how your forward hand is slightly out of focus. It draws the viewer's eye up the rubber band, and to your eye.

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