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Parkwood Estate

5/17/2017

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This past Sunday was Mother's Day, and Jan took me to Parkwood Estate in Oshawa for a photo shoot. I'd brought my four Naraes, and had wanted to take some 'formal' shots of them, as if they were bridesmaids just waiting for the official photos to be taken. No sooner did we pull into the parking lot, but it started to rain. Not good.  But the showers passed quickly and out we went.
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They keep the grass trimmed very short there, so it was a nice scale for the small dolls. Unfortunately the lighting just wasn't working for me. We were under a huge tree, and it was blocking the light from the south, and made the dolls just look like dark silhouettes against the bright skies over the mansion.....
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Which I later tried to fix it Photoshop. Better, but their faces are now a bit grainy....
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I tried using my flash, muted by the little white cloth envelope....
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Decided the photo didn't look very natural, but more like the girls had been dropped into the photo in Photoshop.  So I guess the better shots were without flash, even if the girls ended up a bit grainy
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Close-ups were better too....
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I was a bit disappointed with the group shots, but at least now I know what to do next time I want some formal shots with the house in the background. Like when my FID couple come back home.
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Jane
5/18/2017 12:30:37 am

What a lovely place for a photoshoot backdrop......well apart from the lighting issues and the rain!
Your girls look fabulous!

I always take a roll of white card with me for shady outdoor photoshoots. Well it is the old laminated world map poster we had on the wall when my daughter was a child actually, but being laminated it means it doesn't matter if it gets a bit wet from the grass.
It is amazing just how much difference this makes to the lighting on the dolls faces even if it is just placed on the grass on front them, though I tend to angle it slightly.
Do you do the same?

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Martha
5/18/2017 04:54:21 am

At home I use half a sheet of white foam-core to bounce the light into the doll's faces, but I didn't think of bringing any with me that day. I wasn't expecting the trees at the south end of the property to be such a problem. But they are HUGE. Live and learn, as they say.

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