2010 - Week 10, Twilight

Outdoors under Summer Kitchen
March 13, 2010 7:03 & 7:05 pm
Nikon D90, 35mm 1.8 - shot in RAW
Aperture Priority, Flash bounced off Ceiling, Exposure Bias -1.0, ISO 200, SS 1/60, f/4

I wanted to try using flash outdoors at sunset, but we actually didn't make it outdoors until after the official sunset time, so this week is a total improvisation. The only natural light available was the remaining twilight so the entire photo was lit using the flash bounced off the ceiling. I used aperture priority mode and used spot metering, flash (exposure) lock and single shot. Focus was mainly luck with the f/4 because they were bouncing (and I couldn't see a thing). Alena was so much harder because she wouldn't just bounce up & down there was lots of twisting and well, not just jumping - which is why hers is more OOF I think - it was actually good there was no natural light to continue the exposure.

So...not the photos I had planned to take, but interesting still the same and maybe week 11 will be my outdoors at sunset with fill flash photos.





post-processing
Masked and adjusted midtones for the twilight section of the sky just to show it off a bit more and equal the light between the two photos - alot of the twilight disappeared in the 2 minutes between kids.