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[CuriousMike]

I've never seen the above message before on my camera.
Maybe that means I'm a light-weight.

My son graduated from high school today, and I shot 590 photos. That's a lot for me.
I'm rocking 16GB SD cards in the camera - I brought four, so was able to swap out the first two for the next two. You can never have too many memory cards.

The school campus is OK, has a nice garden, but dreadful place for finding good light.

The import into LR should only take another 95 minutes...

<updates coming>

 

[CuriousMike]

It starts... got my daughter to help me diffuse...

 

[postmortemIA]

thanks for sharing picture of your daughter... that is exactly what AT needs on Saturday night

 

[CuriousMike]

thanks for sharing picture of your daughter... that is exactly what AT needs on Saturday night

Don't wreck this for everyone.

 

[Spoooon]

It's about time they started earning their keep!

 

[blurredvision]

Just from that picture, it looks like the diffuser is working well when you compare his face to hers.

 

[paperwastage]

Just from that picture, it looks like the diffuser is working well when you compare his face to hers.

he's still squinting

I'm rocking 16GB SD cards in the camera - I brought four, so was able to swap out the first two for the next two. You can never have too many memory cards.

I got lazy and got a 256GB SDXC card

camera says 999 shots and 999 minutes left... ( can probably take 12k RAW+JPEG or 24 hours 1080p60p )

(yeah yeah, risks about single card failure)

 

[CuriousMike]

he's still squinting

I got lazy and got a 256GB SDXC card

camera says 999 shots and 999 minutes left... ( can probably take 12k RAW+JPEG or 24 hours 1080p60p )

(yeah yeah, risks about single card failure)

The D610 has the dual-memory slots, so I have it set to backup. So the risks for catastrophic failure is very low.
In my day-to-day shooting, I've never hit the 16GB limit, so I think I'll be OK for the near future. If I ever get more serious about event photography, I might go to dual-64's.

The actual photo with the diffuser, his eyes look ok. I needed a second person with a second diffuser to bounce light back up to his eyes... he has a bit of raccoon eyes here.

 

[blurredvision]

Agreed, a reflector would work great. Next time, if you find a good spot, try putting your subject at the edge inside of shade and have your "assistant" reflect instead of diffuse.

For my tastes, I'd say for this one photo, your son is ever so slightly underexposed. The background is too bright, obviously nothing you can do about that during the actual shoot. If it were me, I'd bring down the highlights and maybe use an adjustment brush (in LR) on your son to bring up the exposure just a tad. Wouldn't take much. I'm not sure if that's the correct way to do it but that's what I'd do.

Sorry if you aren't looking for critiques.

 

[carlton_fritz]

Agreed, a reflector would work great. Next time, if you find a good spot, try putting your subject at the edge inside of shade and have your "assistant" reflect instead of diffuse.

For my tastes, I'd say for this one photo, your son is ever so slightly underexposed. The background is too bright, obviously nothing you can do about that during the actual shoot. If it were me, I'd bring down the highlights and maybe use an adjustment brush (in LR) on your son to bring up the exposure just a tad. Wouldn't take much. I'm not sure if that's the correct way to do it but that's what I'd do.

Sorry if you aren't looking for critiques.

And level the book.

 

[CuriousMike]

I'm all for critiques. I agree, looking at the photo, he is underexposed. I had brought the highlights down - I don't know about all the way.
It was my first time using a diffuser.

Good light was unpossible to fine.

There was little shade, and the shade I had was spackled.
Or really narrow with horrendous background.

The only good place to shoot was the little gazebo that you can make out in the first photo... it was only 1/2 covered by the grapes.

Because of the position of the light, I had to shoot with the grapes as the background.

The whole location wasn't very well setup to be able to take shallow-DOF shots.

Or I'm not adept enough at finding the good locations.

At first, I went indoors looking for something - this shot I was thinking about getting a feel for leaving... but ... no. I needed an EXIT sign over his head.

This image was the only other shade on the campus, and the angles of not having crap behind them was impossible. They were at the extreme edge of the shade - any further forward and the light started spackling on their faces.

This is about what 90% of my photos looked like for my family and other families... the gazebo shot. Not horrible, but just not zingy.

Finally, my daughter actually "saw" this and shot it. I thought it was excellent.

 

[Spoooon]

LOL, your kids must be super patient.

I like the shot in the hall, though he's a little underexposed. You should do a black and white version.

 

[CuriousMike]

My kids run away from me when I pull out the camera bag.
However, they all seemed to loosen up a bit for the big day - grandparents flying in and plying them all with gifts seemed to grease them up a bit.