Chris Hayward
(K=1519) - Comment Date 11/27/2004
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Johnpaul -
This looks like a difficult shot if you want the background and the white dress exposed.
What kind of film are you using (hopefully a low contrast film)?
I can't tell if the dress might be in full sun rather than the shade. The other thing I've noticed is that white dresses have so little contrast within the item, that if you really want details of the dress to show, it's almost essential to get some sort of soft directed light onto it (so there is some shadow detail). It's a hard shot to make but you might look at some of the catalog shots of models in white dresses to get some ideas.
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Chris Hayward
(K=1519) - Comment Date 11/27/2004
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Oh - did you look at the negs to see if there is some detail there that could be printed by a custom lab?
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Brian E. Chilson
(K=-474) - Comment Date 11/30/2004
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I looked at your other stuff and it seems your using Digital, which is very tricky when it comes to recording white just right. and as you've no doubt noticed, the detail is gone - never to return - if you over expose even by a little bit. It's very different from film where you typicaly want to expose a little bit more for detail in the white. - my suggestion is to treat it like ektachrome - shoot one right on - one a half stop under and one a half stop over and one of them should be correct.
I have to say - getting white not to blow out on me in digital is a constant frustration - you might check the settings on the camera and see if turning down the contrast setting doesn't help.
Brian
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Johnpaul Soto
(K=675) - Comment Date 11/30/2004
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Hi Guys thank you for your insightful information, I will be appling this your info. in my next shoot hopefully this helps.
Best regards,
Johnpaul
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Adam E. J. Squier
(K=9803) - Comment Date 11/30/2004
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If you're shooting digital, it most likely won't be able to keep all the tones. There are only a handful of cameras out there that will correctly expose a shot like this, and they're all made by Fuji. The S20, the S2, and the (as of yet not-released) S3.
All other digicams will blow out the dress like that or underexpose the background.
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