As you can see, I've got a beer, glass of wine for Jayne,
Cheers, Welcome.
Packet of crisps, we're just gonna see if we can make a picture here,
so, see what we can do but this will work brilliantly
when you get in close with some flowers or some plants, or something like that
so i'm just gonna see what we can do here now, it's a shame that the suns gone in because
i really wanted to try and get some light coming from over there
from behind the liquid, it always makes liquid look
really really good. Excuse me, shouldn't have done that. Put the crisps in the background
like that, move the ash tray out the way of it
now what will work quite well
is the shallow depth of field, so i've still got my
F-four aperture in there, pop that back in
see what we can do just to line up a bit of a shot.
Now that actually looks quite boring, because i'll just take it
quickly, and i've got the wrong exposure because i was showing the man in the pub how
the camera works
so manually set my exposure as i'm doing this by hand, earlier i said
it's best to use your
tripod and it probably is but I don't want
to get wet so i'm just kinda rushing it, let me just take a shot
even that doesn't look too bad
was gonna bring it up a bit because I i'm just gonna brighten it up a bit because i have noticed with my lensbaby
that sometimes the shots look a little dark according to
what the light meter says, that's better, but it is a bit boring.
because I'm just looking at tarmac, i'd rather see something a bit more
attractive. if we had the light coming this way
that would have worked but let's have a look and see what it looks like with a bit og=f the pub
going on in the background.
I'm also doing it quickly because i want to drink
the beer, and a very nice beer it is too.
that's much more interesting now i've got the arch way of the door going on up there
and the beer here and i'm just getting down in low, that's much more of a puby look,
gonna geta a bit lower still.
because is a fifteen a lens it's not terribly wide.
i like that. So let's
do our lensbaby thing, what i want is a bit of the drinks
down here in the bottom right of the picture and the kind of
arch that i don't know what you call it, the porch,
over the door up on the left there.
So, i'm gonna look at my shot and i'm gonna do it on
that way up, portrait way up but i want to put it on a little bit of
an angle a little bit of a sideways tilt, so i'm gonna have the drinks in the bottom
right corner
and that is where i want my viewer to look.
So, if my lensbaby composer is straight like that
if heit's gonna go to the bottom right of the picture which is
sorta down here the obviously i need tot push that
down and to the right a little like that, do you see what i mean, so
i've just angles it down a bit and to the right thats just at my starting point
so looking trhough the viewfinder
set up my shot, now im just fiddling with
the focus ring here on the front to get my
front to back focus but you do have to tweak them both
let's have a look that's not quite right that's better
oh yes that's good the Beers nice and sharp
the back of the pub, i like that. I like the window boxes
little bit closer just recheck that focus perfect
now check my exposure I'm doing this through the viewfinder, you can't
take away it away from your eye and just look in the back becaus enow my camera's
pointing down there
and my exposuyres happenig up there. So that's what you've gotta do.
through the Finder and we go focus on that beer
my exposure looks to be right it says
320th of a second, looking in the back, that's not bad
i'm just gonna brighten it up a little bit, so to brighten up my shot
all i have to do is slow down my shutter speed
so i'm just gonna brighten it up by two thirds of a stop, i've gone froma 320th to a 200th of a
second
just reshoot that picture, let's get that nice and
focused. There it is.
There you go, and straight away you can see what a strong impact that is having on
the beer. Now you can of course do this with flowers, you could do it with almost
anything I've used it photographing interiors of hotels,
food you name it lens babies I think are a brilliantly creative little tool and
their not that expensive
going online and have a look and post your pictures onto our facebook page there's a link
at the bottom here
would love to see what you come up with as always enjoy
I'm gonna have a beer.