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Keeping busy I see. All three contests this month too! :)

Great work.
I like Lenas eyes in the animation. It really looks like she's moving them! :)

Interesting with the green screen cloth. I've noticed that you and Lena do a lot of green screen shoots with great success. Is that just a normal green cotton sheet your using or is it some special fabric?

I only recently tried a green screen shoot but then I used a green scarf I had laying around. It only worked so-so. I think I will get some bigger and less wrinkled one for next time.

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I love that pingy thingy Lena! I wish I could move my eyes like that while I'm doing one but I'm usually so focused on what I'm doing I can't look anywhere else!

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Very nice photos!
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So beautiful..So so beautiful

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Sofos wrote:Keeping busy I see. All three contests this month too! :)

Great work.
I like Lenas eyes in the animation. It really looks like she's moving them! :)

Interesting with the green screen cloth. I've noticed that you and Lena do a lot of green screen shoots with great success. Is that just a normal green cotton sheet your using or is it some special fabric?

I only recently tried a green screen shoot but then I used a green scarf I had laying around. It only worked so-so. I think I will get some bigger and less wrinkled one for next time.
Thank you Sofos. Yes, the eye-movement has been a nice gesture of Lena :)

About the green wand, it is made of polyester fabric. It is really heavy and wide ( i think 3 x 4 Meters) so i have to fold it.
I sometimes used it to cover the photo area as you can see in this very old picture:
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It is important that the textile does crease less to zero, and you provide strong and even lighting.
Finally you can reduce your cutting time a lot if you have a good color contrast from the object to the background.
So, the green color is sometimes not sufficient, which then results in heavily annoying edit work to do.
I often use a white wand. Or if she wears dark clothes, i use light blankets and vice-versa.

After all, i had not that much success with the green wand for some reasons.

I currently only use 2 small-sized LED photo lights.
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It is generally good to use 2 or even more lights to eliminate the shadows.
The size of the reflector is important too.
But better you use a Softbox like this:

https://www.backdropsource.co.uk/produc ... ht-softbox

I have one, too. But I never tried it at Lena's room since the refurbishment.

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hansdampf21 wrote:
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I can't believe how plain i looked at this picture... 8O

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Wow, this is great info :D . Thanks for sharing!

When looking at your setup I can see that lightning is probably the thing I need to improve the most (besides getting a better backdrop). Because I got lots of shadows around Emma from the flash that made the "green elimination" difficult due to all the different color shades.

hansdampf21 wrote:
I really love this picture :D
She looks super focused to maintain the pose and wait for the shutter to go off :)

And the reflection in her eyes. Top notch!
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hansdampf21 wrote:
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I can't believe how plain i looked at this picture... 8O
Well, still cute though! :wink:

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Sofos wrote:Wow, this is great info :D . Thanks for sharing!

When looking at your setup I can see that lightning is probably the thing I need to improve the most (besides getting a better backdrop). Because I got lots of shadows around Emma from the flash that made the "green elimination" difficult due to all the different color shades.
You're welcome, Sofos! :)

There's one thing i have learned about using a flash: always try to avoid it.
If your Camera has the option to mount a permanent photo light, this may be sufficient. But can also lead to unwanted reflections.
I think if you can afford two Softbox studio lights you'll be good to go.
For a smaller setup you could also try the LED lights i'm using.
They include a small stand and adapters for a standard mount.
Sofos wrote: Well, still cute though! :wink:
Yes, of course :)

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Hi hansdampf, I love the animation you've done of Lena. She looks beautiful in that flowered dress, very pretty, and great eye movements too.
Your green screen info is really interesting too, I've never tried a green screen because I tend to prefer 'as shot' photographs but I can see that it could come in really useful at times, competitions and such. I do use two softboxes with permanent lighting in them. I don't have any flash equipment except what's built in to the camera. I might try playing around with green screen now I've seen your work, it looks interesting. :thumbs_up:

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Thanks Mondoon. That's great honor, but it really didn't take that much effort. Glad you like it though ;)
And i'm always happy about inspiring people to trying out new things.

Thanks for the nice wishes, i will pass them to Lena later... :)

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Today, Lena and me created this portrayal of the "Female SilverSurfer" for one of the photo challenges.



Lena is now somewhat exhausted from all the work and needs to rest a little bit :)
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Wishing everybody a nice and relaxed weekend.
Hansdampf & Lena

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Lena is looking hot as usual :razz:

Don't think I seen her in that black wig before. Is it new?

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Great Silver Surfer shot hansdampf, Lena looks fantastic on her cosmic surf board. That background is amazing, really nice creation.
Lena's looking very cool in her silver swimsuit and eye shadow nice shot HD.
I'm taking Lena's advice and having a relaxed weekend, and so is Hanna.

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Sofos wrote:Lena is looking hot as usual :razz:

Don't think I seen her in that black wig before. Is it new?
Thank you Sofos!
She used to wear that hair style before. Long time no see :)

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Mondoon wrote:Great Silver Surfer shot hansdampf, Lena looks fantastic on her cosmic surf board. That background is amazing, really nice creation.
Lena's looking very cool in her silver swimsuit and eye shadow nice shot HD.
I'm taking Lena's advice and having a relaxed weekend, and so is Hanna.

All the best to you and Lena from me, Hanna and Katie
Hi Mondoon, thanks a lot for the compliments.

Lena was shot from above. It was hard to get her in the right position for the photo. Glad that it finally kind of worked.
As for the background: i took a cropped image of an earth shot from the NASA picture archives.
For the surf board i've used the shape of an an actual surf board image, and GIMPed the metallic effect onto it.
Finally i introduced a Supernova, which throws it's light stripes onto Lena, and also adds nicely to the blue light of the earth's atmosphere.

With much love,
Hansdampf & Lena

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