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12 years 4 months ago #181269 by Ednra
My friend & I are planning a photo shoot this Sunday. This shoot we are going to head to a local Industrial estate and aim to get some gritty, maybe a bit "rocky" photos.

While I'm after some general advice/ideas, I am worried about a couple of things.
Blowing the sky to light the subject
Messy background rather than a cool industrial look

Any advice would be appreciated.
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12 years 4 months ago #181271 by ShotbyMe
Meter for the sky... compensate the amount of light coming on your clients with off camera flash.

Light has DOF. By controlling your light and camera settings you can set the background to anything from white to black and anything in between. If your background is not to your liking, use light to hide it. Before doing that, find the background that you want, it will make the pics more interesting.
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12 years 4 months ago #181273 by Ednra
Appreciate your advice.
Thanks for the fill flash comment, this should save me some time in photoshop later.
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12 years 4 months ago #181276 by B22 G6
Take a tripod with you then the elimination of blown out skies is achievable by taking two exposures and "exposure-blending" them in PS when you get back home.
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12 years 4 months ago #181284 by Ednra

B22 G6 wrote: Take a tripod with you then the elimination of blown out skies is achievable by taking two exposures and "exposure-blending" them in PS when you get back home.


I plan on taking a tripod, cuz you never do know how the lighting will be.
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12 years 4 months ago #181339 by rmeyer7
Exposing for the sky and using fill light is the best suggestion. You might also try using a graduated ND filter, but then you'd want to make sure your subject is framed below the darkened part of the glass. Those filters can be a little bit of a pain when you're shooting people as compared to using them for landscapes.
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12 years 4 months ago #181348 by KCook
Or . . . . you could just say the heck with it and let the sky blow out -

erickimphotography.com/blog/2011/03/phot...of-detroit-michigan/

Even if the final shots must be color, take a few monochrome trial shots, just to check the tones.

www.digital-photography-school.com/how-t...h-industrial-deserts

Kelly Cook
Canon 50D, Olympus PL2
kellycook.zenfolio.com/
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12 years 4 months ago - 12 years 4 months ago #181352 by icepics
To 'get rid' of clutter you might try framing your shot higher than ground level, that could remove debris etc. that you don't want in your shot. If you shoot from various vantage points you could get different views and get what you want in your photos.

I usually shoot with the sun behind me, but if you have some tricky lighting maybe don't use a lot of the sky in your photos (unless there are clouds, branches, or something that adds interest to a particular image). This time of year with the short days the light seems to change quickly, so you coul dprobably get different lighting on a particular subject in a fairly short time. You might get some interesting shadows etc.

You could look up photographers like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans who did industrial style images as they captured Depression era life (thanks to Matthew for the resources).
Sharon
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