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krodgers · **sister has their x-mas tree up already! -** 11-17-2006, 01:33 PM

share some of your experience with doing some portrait shots in front of tree. I would like to use at least one light and I realize i need to do some dragging in order to expose the tree lights. I will probely use telephoto to bring subject away from tree to keep from washing out because of different exposures. I also thought I would set up to do some overlays and try that method. Give me some insite or any other methods you all have tried and seems to work pretty good. (post some examples)

photosbysergio · 11-17-2006, 01:55 PM

I'm anxiously waiting to hear the replies to this post as well.

CaptainTom · 11-17-2006, 03:03 PM

A good chance to try HDR, as long as you can keep the subject from moving during several exposures.

krodgers · 11-17-2006, 06:26 PM

hdr would probely work but keeping 2 and 4 year old still would be another problem on its own. but I have thought about ur idea on just doing an image without them and then adding them to same composed shot and photoshop them togather.

wish me luck, will post some results

Silvernic · 11-17-2006, 09:36 PM

Grrr, it's not even Thanksgiving.

krodgers · 12-04-2006, 08:59 PM

here is one of my favorite shots thus far in front of a tree.. i have a little work on changing the flash light into maybe one of the ice ornaments. you do anything and everything to convince a child to sit for pictures right?

Dennis_H · 12-05-2006, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by krodgers

you do anything and everything to convince a child to sit for pictures right?

The best way if they're not your kids is to say their mom and dad will buy them a puppy... Then it up to the parents to be the bad guy.

Dennis_H

Debbi · 12-05-2006, 03:03 PM

That's just wrong! Ha!

Jake · 12-05-2006, 10:34 PM

I like to get them away from the tree some to really blur out the lights.
Here are some from a few days ago. To get this look I have to shoot in burst mode to get one that is sharp.
Slow shutter+kids=blur, but in a burst of about 5 frames I usually get a keeper.

engstrom · 12-06-2006, 12:12 AM

Jake, fantastic pics!

Jake · 12-06-2006, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by engstrom

Jake, fantastic pics!

Thanks John!

ivgonzalez · 09:35 AM

This is the best I could do...

My wife and daughter decorated the tree on Saturday after TG and I took some snap shots with my new 2.8 "L" lenses!

Here is my favorite of the batch. I love the 2.8 DOF; blurred the foreground of the Christmas tree and the back ground of the back of the tree as well as everything else! 2.8 baby; I love it!