Photography within the home?!

[john185k]

Anyone else find themselves taking random pictures when lazing around the house??? Today I was trying to get the last few shots from my Fuji S6500D as the wife thought it was the kat lying at te bottom of the bed last night and kicked it off - however it was my camera... nice.

Now the thing is knackered and is jammed on one setting - classic!

[pauljc]

And the moral of the story is… don’t leave your camera on the bottom of the bed over night as it will almost certainly be on the floor in the morning

Nice candids. I like ramdom shots around the house, well anywhere, too.

Edited by pauljc on Monday 17th December 21:42

[AndyKH]

Yep i do this, mostly of the sprog, My girlfriend thinks i'm mad and i tell you what, you take one nice shot and you'll be taking the family pictures for the rest of your life. Does 'you take the pictures your good at it' sound familiar?

[Matt H]

can we see the pics you were taking on the bed just before your wife kicked the camera off!

[bramley]

Try some multi exposure stuff if you're bored at home, always good for a laugh.

[pauljc]

bramley said:

Try some multi exposure stuff if you're bored at home, always good for a laugh.

Brilliant

Edited by pauljc on Tuesday 18th December 11:18

[Famous Graham]

bramley said:

Try some multi exposure stuff if you're bored at home, always good for a laugh.

Nice one - good attention on the legs under the table Tricky getting positioning right, isn't it.

[bramley]

I'm gonna do one like that, nice idea. My wife tells me I don't do enough cleaning. A shot like that would prove that's not true!

So much potential for amusement with shots like these - I think we should all have a go and post the results.

[TuscNick]

bramley said:

Try some multi exposure stuff if you're bored at home, always good for a laugh.

How do you do that ?

[Famous Graham]

With a tripod, some thought, 3 separate shots and some time in Photoshop, merging them together

[bramley]

TuscNick said:

How do you do that ?

As FG said, you need a tripod, ideally a flashgun if indoors (pop up flash would cause quite a few shadows which make merging the shots a little harder).

I took a meter reading of the scene then flicked it on to manual mode and put the same settings in so that each of the 3 shots was taken at precisely the same exposure, again to make the 3 shots easier to merge later. Then thought about seating positions etc, and hit the timer button and sat down, repeated that for the other two positions.

Open up the images in photoshop and establish one of them as your background (to then drop the other two 'people' on to). Take one of the other images and roughly select the person (doesn't have to be accurate) and paste them on to your background. Move them into position and then gradually erase the edges of the area you pasted in, just to soften the edge lines a little (this will reveal the background in your base layer). Repeat with the third shot.

It's only the first one I've done, but I do think that making sure the exposure on all of your shots is the same to start with makes it easier to merge them. In fact that shot was a doddle.

You can make it harder for yourself by having the people overlapping, but it's a lot easier if they don't!

[Matt H]

bramley said:

I'm gonna do one like that, nice idea. My wife tells me I don't do enough cleaning. A shot like that would prove that's not true!

So much potential for amusement with shots like these - I think we should all have a go and post the results.

I think the shock of me cleaning would kill the wife!

[Andy M]

If you're going to do multiple exposures you should at least add a little variety by changing clothes etc

[GetCarter]

I think Graham only has one shirt.

[Famous Graham]

That is actually technically true I have one shirts and loads of t-shirts. All my other shirts are still in storage with everything else

[Dogsey]

Matt H said:

bramley said:

I'm gonna do one like that, nice idea. My wife tells me I don't do enough cleaning. A shot like that would prove that's not true!

So much potential for amusement with shots like these - I think we should all have a go and post the results.

I think the shock of me cleaning would kill the wife!

Ah, the perfect crime.

[V6GTO]

Guilty as charged...

[hawkaye]

Very guilty your honor































I'll stop now, I promise.

Edited by hawkaye on Wednesday 19th December 20:44

[GetCarter]

...another man with only one shirt!

(great pics BTW)

[Famous Graham]

GetCarter said:

...another man with only one shirt!

(great pics BTW)

All the best photogs have one shirt

I'm not fooling anyone, am I

But, yep, cracking photos, Hawkaye - some great still life shots there. Great use of light on the Gorillaz, particularly.

Edited by Famous Graham on Wednesday 19th December 21:52