Tribal portraits....b&w and color.(post no.170)

The tribals in a dance programme.......both are cropped images.....means from one photograph, u can make 2-3 photographs, selecting ares which contains the best part of scene or images.

Many photographers are interested in b&w images of the color photographs......b&w will look good when there are almost less elements emphasizing on one whole area of a photograph.....may be a portrait of an old persons with wrinkled face...........................BUT IN CONTRAST here the lady above has her face blouse, dupatta and bindi, nosering......in color and that all suit in color....Right side background provides good depth.....Now u can view B&W in single tone turning so many beautiful color things in monotone........To me that also looks good.....to some extent.

The first image impressed me, as Indian women fill their forehead line with 'sindoor', being a married woman.Beauty of dress u can imagine.

        SHOT ON D3000, 55-200 Nikkor----1/200, f5,6, ISO800.......................just shoot something like this.

USING FILL FLASH WHILE SHOOTING ANY PICTURE.(post no.168).

Using FILL-IN OR FILL-FLASH........IN A PHOTOGRAPH, which is otherwise commonly underexposed  if  it is  exposed against light.....may be morning time or evening or the noon time under shadow, as in case of above photograph of the labour......He is moving under the shadow of tree and next his color is dark.....Thus ur camera reading in Aperture Priority will read correctly but the skin tone as u see in the photograph is not upto correct exposure.

There are other techniques.....Use Manual take the reading from his face keeping shutter speed of suppose 1/250.....turn the aperture setting and where it is in between + or - sign, u can click the shutter.....The result will be almost same as my camera on A.P. read the face and exposed correctly at f6.3, which may perhaps be your aperture at Manual setting. ....In both ways there is an alternative......exposure compensation, towards + or - (minus)......On Manual setting come to exposure compensation mark and increase the aperture by one stop i.e. 5.6 and the picture will be more brightly lit. That is ur correct exposure. Still if u do not wish to alter the aperture, bring down the shutter speed at 1/125. You are getting the same result.....the best time is evening when u hv soft light and subject is against the sun.

As in case of Aperture priority I choose exposure compensation towards plus side, the picture will be rightly exposed if I set the aperture at f6.3.....In this case the aperture is stable and the compensation affected the shutter speed to give me a correct exposure, which may have come down to 1/100.   .............................. In these cases still we feel that because of shadow of tree the details of man's face are not that much clear or visible, since his skin is dark

Now we come to our point of using a fill-in flash.........the example is given below. The camera flash did it work good.......There is no artificiality on his face as may be having some sunlight on his body, yea u can view his abs..........The moral is have a sharp eye, understand the exposure, and cleverly use the fill-in flash, bring out the finer details of the skin of person, animal, birds or anything u are exposing.....remember this small thing rather than being tensioned.

I think this will help u a lot.......THE EXIF DATA IN CASE OF ABOVE PHOTO WAS SS 1/200, AT F6.3 AND ISO at 400.........................I keep my camera setting at ISO 400 in expectation of the situation I may encounter.....but at leisure I experiment on ISO100,200,800,1600,3200. Latest cameras are even providing ISO6400.....yes due to some loss of quality.