Saturday, May 16, 2009

Testing the waters

Here is a very uninteresting picture, I took about 5 pictures but didn't realize what kind of power a single open window had in shadowing the room. Check this out - this is right under a lamp that in person blasts a pretty mean light. But the natural sunlight to the side dimmed it so much. Just goes to show how little I know about all of this.

I've been waiting for a design, but decided to just go ahead and try sculpting. Turned out quite well. I made most of the lower body, just need to bulk up around the thigh a tiny bit, smooth it out and add a couple of details. I'll take pictures of it later tonight along with the room im working with at the moment. It's really clean... -.-

I thought sculpting wouldn't be that bad, but it is toughhh stufff... I knew this was going to be the hardest step for me but jeez lah weez. It's still fun as hell to do though, I'll get back to more tonight!

Update:

Update again: It took 2 hours and 100 actuations, but I have a feel for the camera and configured a lot of settings to my liking. It's late and stuffy, just gonna head to bed - post some of the pics tomorrow.

1 comment:

  1. The sunlight is brighter than the light in the house- much brighter than any lamp! But you can compensate. The problem you were experiencing was stopping the camera down too much, not using enough ISO, not using a long enough exposure, (shutter speed needs to be at least 1/30 of a second for proper exposure), or any combination of all of those.

    Here is a basic site on DSLR photography, it helped me a great deal:

    http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/camera/settings/

    Especially check out these pages:

    http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/camera/settings/shutter-speed.shtml

    http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/camera/settings/av-mode.shtml

    http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/camera/settings/iso.shtml

    Best wishes,

    Don Carlson
    stop motion animator

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