benstanley

Try getting and reading "Light - Science and Magic".  It contains lots of fantastic information on how light works, including how to photograph glass.  I don't have any specific advice to offer, the book should about cover everything.

Wonderfully abstract!  How did you light this, and is the colour natural or did you gel the flash?

All thoughts welcome. This image has been darkened a bit and had its

contrast bumped up in post. Its moss or lichen or something like that

(I'm not a botanist) :)

Easy its a King parrot :)  Your one is a boy.  You can't see it in the angle you have taken but they have a gorgeous dark blue back hiding underneath its wings.

Love it!  Is the background separately lit or did you selectively darken it in PP?

What did you use for light out of curiousity?  Was it an umbrella (curious what sort), or a small softbox?

Oh dear, was thinking about the buffalo&cart not looking right on top of the woman being heavily modified (and perhaps pasted in), and on closer inspection the water buffalo and cart hasn't just been lightened, it wasn't even there in the first place was it - its been photoshopped in right?  Otherwise why is its reflection a perfect inverse of the original, except shortened (instead of lengthened as a reflection would be) and darkened, but with the same perspective, and the wrong contrast. 

Also the cart wheel's reflection clearly goes over the top of the *real* wheel, which reflections don't do :)  Personally I don't like it when photos are made up by pasting in stuff that was never there.

Cool!  Did you kind of plan that or did you just see it and shoot?

I really like the lighting and the pose.  How did you do the lighting?

Actually now I can see it - her right shoulder including neckline has been copied and pasted twice further down around chest level - you can see the curve of the neckline stitches twice further down.  And for some reason its blurred, and the lines down't match up...  Personally a little bit of tweaking is ok but it has to be done well enough not to look obviously wrong...

This is photoshopped right?  The colour temperature and direction of the light on the woman doesn't match the scene.  There is something funny going on with her dress - varying parts are in and out of focus or blurry, looks like its been modified in PS.  eg. Where you would have buttons going down from the neckline it looks like a strip has been copied & pasted over the top.  Her left shoulder gives the appearance of being blurred/out of focus yet the background is perfectly in focus.  Have the buffalos also been lightened in post?