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All the photos look great but, I like the blue back ground best. I have a nice Nikon, but find myself using my phone for most, if not all of my photos for adds. I don't have any special lighting and that is the biggest issue my images have. Poor lighting.
 
The idea of an exercise of this nature is to shoot the scene and get it right in the camera, not fix a mistake in Photoshop. Anyone can do that.

Don't get me wrong, I do use a lot of different programs when looking for special effects but I make ever effort to get the lighting right without resorting to computer corrections.

It's a shame that no one teaches film photography anymore. Why bother with lighting when you can simply relight the entire scene with a digital program. Kids with a cell phone can shoot beautiful photographs and even correct them right in their smart phones.

I applaud the OP for his efforts to do things the old fashion way.

I do to. Getting things right with just the camera is almost a lost art. Especially film photography. I'm 67 and it's been so long I've forgotten a lot of what I knew. Still, getting things right with a digital camera takes a bit of skill. I started going digital even before I got my first digital camera in 1998 by scanning in photos. Looking back it was a pathetic 1MP Kodak camera with not enough resolution for any quality work and in today's money would cost about $650.
 
All the photos look great but, I like the blue back ground best. I have a nice Nikon, but find myself using my phone for most, if not all of my photos for adds. I don't have any special lighting and that is the biggest issue my images have. Poor lighting.

Lighting is the most important aspect of photography. That, however does not mean it has to be expensive! There are so many DIY lighting modifiers out there that can be made for free or very little. Sheets, white walls, table lamps, paper, pretty much anything can be used to make light look better.
 
Here is a shot I did as an exercise in lighting principles, using the inverse square law, this image was shot with no backdrop.

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I think your pics look fantastic!
The idea of an exercise of this nature is to shoot the scene and get it right in the camera, not fix a mistake in Photoshop. Anyone can do that.

Don't get me wrong, I do use a lot of different programs when looking for special effects but I make ever effort to get the lighting right without resorting to computer corrections.

It's a shame that no one teaches film photography anymore. Why bother with lighting when you can simply relight the entire scene with a digital program. Kids with a cell phone can shoot beautiful photographs and even correct them right in their smart phones.

I applaud the OP for his efforts to do things the old fashion way.
Unfortunately art and creative directors want finished files within days now. Unless your super famous, you will have no clients shooting film these days.
 
I think your pics look fantastic!

Unfortunately art and creative directors want finished files within days now. Unless your super famous, you will have no clients shooting film these days.

Thanks!

Thankfully, I live just 800 yards from a professional film lab. When I was developing my own negs, I could have contact sheets scanned and proofed same day. The thing with digital is for the last 15 years, it suddenly made everyone a photographer. Without the cost of film or time of development, it was simply a matter of firing off 1000 frames and getting a couple good ones, whereas we used to have 36 frames per roll to hope to get 1 good one.

Funny, these days when I'm shooting film, I use my digital body for chimp shots like a Polaroid used to be used! Talk about coming full circle.

@Kratos awesome rigs! Nice use of DOF and lighting.
 
Thanks!

Thankfully, I live just 800 yards from a professional film lab. When I was developing my own negs, I could have contact sheets scanned and proofed same day. The thing with digital is for the last 15 years, it suddenly made everyone a photographer. Without the cost of film or time of development, it was simply a matter of firing off 1000 frames and getting a couple good ones, whereas we used to have 36 frames per roll to hope to get 1 good one.

Funny, these days when I'm shooting film, I use my digital body for chimp shots like a Polaroid used to be used! Talk about coming full circle.

@Kratos awesome rigs! Nice use of DOF and lighting.

There is an art to it. Most (not professional) photographers are simply picture takers. Point and shoot and it is what it is. And I hate the idea pf a phone being a camera. Granted some of the pictures don't look too bad until you zoom in. At pixel resolution, I have yet to see a decent one. I know several people that own DSLR's, leave the in Auto mode, and have never changed a lens. With a digital DSLR, you need to understand shutter speed, ISO, aperture, depth of field, and sometimes manual focusing. And also proper lighting, not just using the camera mounted flash. But I do like the ability to take many pictures and keep just the better ones. For any quality work, I shoot in RAW which captures everything the lens can take in and you can post-process it later. In camera .JPG files leave a lot to be desired, usually the dynamic range is clipped on both ends and the camera's software determines what the picture should look like as far as noise control and sharpness sometimes leaving halos in higher contrasting areas.

Keep up the good work.
 

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