Improving Old Shots with Lightroom
I’ve recently learned how to get more out of Lightroom, and am using it more often to adjust my shots.
Underfoot
More shooting in the dark
Lighting a shot is always a series of experiments. I have some very rough idea of what I want, and then I start playing around with placement and lighting. Sometimes sometimes everything looks great, and sometimes everything looks awful. I try to do more of whatever made the shot look great, but it’s a pretty rough art.
Shadow play: Playing with flashlights in the dark
The very best thing about photographing inanimate objects is that they don’t move. So, no matter how oddly you light them up, they won’t suddenly shift and blur the shot. There’s a ton of things you can do with that stillness, and I’ve done a ton of them – scenes lit with candles, or disco balls, or other dim light. But one thing I haven’t done is photograph shadows.
Shooting under the bed with candlelight
Sharing a few shots from last night, when the cast of Underfoot was all cozied up in their beds watching Incredible Journey.
Alternate BJDs or Sad news for Mr. Rat
Most of my ball-joint dolls are standard resin, hooks, and string ball joint dolls. They’re made of an almost indestructible resin, and, if any piece falls off or if the string gets too loose, you can just take them apart and restring them. A few, though are made of delicate material and are highly destructible.
Some under-the-bed shots
My experiment with the tablet-as-a-viewfinder and the flexible tripod has been wildly successful, IMO. My sense is that most of the success is due to using a larger viewfinder.
Old dog, new tricks
In the last Underfoot episode, the pack found a safe place under a bed. So, that’s where I need to photograph them – under the bed.
Waylaid by Waffles, or how I got totally stuck trying to take a simple shot
It turned out to be ridiculously hard to get one breakfast plate on one rat’s head
That first cup of coffee: Capturing the right shot for a photo story
When you’re smaller than a teapot, it’s hard to get that first cup of coffee in the morning.
Rat takes a bath: Behind the scenes on a single shot from a photographic novel
It turns out lighting is doing about 90% of the work in these shots