Yes, she does love to show off her sexy legs!Mondoon wrote: Brilliant, really glad you tried that method and like it. I also think they've turned out just as well as auto but you now have more control. I usually take one shot to judge exposure, have a look at it and then increase or decrease exposure values, f-stop or speed, and try again. I use a black background on a lot of mine so I have to underexpose every shot because the camera tries to turn everything to a mid grey tone. You've now reached a point where you might find a tripod very useful, or use something solid you can rest on. Yes, once you've set the focus you can leave it, as long as you don't move too much out of position and if you're on a small f-stop (f-8 - f-16) it won't matter much if you do move.
Great results, those are very nice shots. It's a good thing Emma's patient and always happy to do it, she's a good model. That is a really nice dress/tunic and it suits her. She's looking splendid sat there nice and relaxed. Nice posing too, very natural and she certainly knows how to maximise those lovely long legs. I noticed in one shot she's hurt her finger and we hope it's not serious.
Best wishes to you and Emms from myself, Hanna and Katie.
PS. I hadn't noticed the flower, too many distractions.
Thanks for your tips! It helps. As a matter of fact I made the same conclusion about a tripod yesterday since I noticed that in low light the auto mode would boost the iso quite a bit in order to keep the shutter time down. But this resulted in grainy pictures and in manual I can override that of course. But to get proper exposure one must increase shutter time instead and with handheld cam that would result in lots of motion blur.
So, in fact on my way home from work I bought my self a tripod.
Emma was kind enough to check the stability and build quality.
Approved
I did some shots then with the tripod (will add images in a separate post) and in this setup the separate button for the auto adjust worked even better. Great stuff!
She is a very patient model I can tell you. She even don't mind if I'm in the middle of the session goes to the computer to google something But she says she cares about the results too and that this is a learning session for both of us
And besides, I think getting her new clothes every other day helps with her motivation . She loves new outfits! (am I turning into a shop-aholic? )
And yes, unfortunate she did get a finger poke... Nothing serious though, I put on a bandage until I can fix it so it won't go worse or get dirty so the adhesive won't stick as good. Thanks for asking
Emma says it doesn't even hurt. So that's good
Emma shouts from the sofa that I must send her love to you and the girls!
Thanks for stopping by!