January 21, 2005: Happy Birthday Sharon! by Ray Akey

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22-JAN-2005	Ray A. Akey

January 21, 2005: Happy Birthday Sharon!

Windsor, ON, Canada

It was Sharon's birthday today. Since it was so cold outside (-14C), we celebrated inside.

Her birthday present from her greatest admirer (me) was a Canon 440EX flash for her Digital Rebel.

The outfit is new - we saw it in a lingerie store today and had to grab it because, interestingly enough, her birth year is (19)69.

Canon EOS 20D ,Ambient Room Lighting
2s f/8.0 at 50.0mm iso100 hide exif

Full EXIF Info
Date/Time	22-Jan-2005 01:10:51
Make	Canon
Model	Canon EOS 20D
Flash Used	No
Focal Length	50 mm
Exposure Time	2.00 sec
Aperture	f/8
ISO Equivalent	100
Exposure Bias
White Balance	(-1)
Metering Mode	matrix (5)
JPEG Quality	(6)
Exposure Program	aperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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johnambrose		24-Jan-2008 15:30
Awesome! Everything, lighting, model, outfit!

Guest		29-May-2006 10:53
love this sshot makes u wonder

Guest		03-Aug-2005 13:32
Sharon, A belated Happy Birthday! Hope you have a Truly Happy Birthday Every Year that comes by!!. Next time I am in Ontario I have to meet you guys. :-) Great work Ray... this one really takes the cake for creative control and lighting ingenuity. Only a Canon lens and cmos ccd can deliver a masterpiece like this. Skin tones in all your pix are superb... The Model,Man,Machine & software -- all need to be applauded!!! 2 thumbs up Utsav www.pbase.com/digitalfestival digitalfestival@yahoo.com

scott clarke		28-Jun-2005 19:11
Beautiful photo, I really like this gallery you both work so well together. Regards from up river.

Guest		22-May-2005 09:23
This is the dawning of Age of Aquarius!

Guest		12-May-2005 04:42
Happy late Birthday awesome picture love the outfit!

Guest		25-Jan-2005 16:43
Nice idea, near perfect exposure given the conditions, interesting post-processing (as described below), and of course, a lovely model. The resulting image is a good one, and hope the birthday was, too.

Guest		23-Jan-2005 06:22
Great image and...Happy Birthday!

Pepe Zyman		23-Jan-2005 01:26
First of all I want to wish Sharon a great birthday. You are a lovely lady and a very good model! As for you Ray, this image is fantastic the best so far.

Ray Akey		22-Jan-2005 23:58
And, as always, she took my breath away. :)

Guest		22-Jan-2005 22:46
Thanks John. I held my breath.:)

John Buffin		22-Jan-2005 20:06
Almost forgot, Sharon, you did great job staying perfectly still for 2 seconds.

John Buffin		22-Jan-2005 20:05
Wow, that's an impressive post process you have there. I really stared at it and cannot tell where the seams are. Very nice job!

Ray Akey		22-Jan-2005 18:07
Two Johns? LOL. Thanks for the positive comments. I think I took about 8-10 shots of this particular scene. This one was my favorite and is actually a composite of three images layered on top of each other, each the same image with the exposure slightly bumped up (I shoot RAW for creative control). In the original capture, the upper half of the frame was a lot darker because of the light falloff (it's only candlelight afterall). By overlapping images of higher exposure, I used a soft brush to "erase the darkness" in the upper two thirds of the frame. I suppose I could have used a gradient on the layer mask for each of the two top layers, but the effect would have been the same. It worked out very well for me. :)

John Buffin		22-Jan-2005 17:30
Great shot, great lighting, and great outfit! Happy Birthday!

Guest		22-Jan-2005 17:10
Thank you John! We do know how to keep warm.

John S. Nasche		22-Jan-2005 12:15
Very good candlelight photography Ray, … the 2-second exposure with the aperture of f8 is right on the money giving a nice depth of field! Of course, the lil’ camera’s brain did all the figuring for you in the AV mode. LOL! I’m not bustin’ your chops, if there had been AV modes on my cameras when I learned to do this I would have used it too. I wasted a lot of film learning this technique. Happy Belated Birthday Sharon! I hope it was a good one for you! Stay warm guys, that’s why I live in Florida. Very high 60’s and sunny sky here yesterday.

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