A Rainy Day
May 13, 2009
Indoor Photography Challenges
Today it was rainy outside, so the grandkids decided to play indoors. After the usual feast of Reeses Puffs cereal, a banana and a small bowl of ice cream for my granddaughter, off they charged to the living room for a little game of “you’re it”.
Soon enough they settled down and were playing well together with a doll house. Now, consider this – a 9 year old girl and an 8 year old boy – siblings – playing well together inside on a rainy day. Kind of unusual for siblings, eh?
So the trick is how to get some great photographs of these two. Outside it is dark and rainy, the gloom sinking through the two skylights into the living room, shadows everywhere. How can a great picture be taken in this lighting and situation?
Time to whip out the flash unit which, conveniently, can be rotated to bounce flash off of the ceiling. In this manner the subjects – the grandkids – can be the focus of the photograph without deep shadow covering their faces.
A quick snap of the scene, check out the histogram, and I can see where the shadows fall. As long as the spikes aren’t lined up against the sides of the LCD screen, and are basically in the middle of the LCD screen.
A small adjustment to the camera, a few more shots and the next thing you now a few more great pictures are ready to be downloaded onto the computer. So how do you learn to take these kinds of photographs? Why, with a few lessons in photography, of course!
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