i now found whats bothering me

just my humble views

perhaps the photos could make better sense if you take away the robes but maintain just the square hat (if you want it to be a graduation related series)
make your subjects wear working attire, to symbolize now they are "working", the presence of proper working attire with the hat will symbolize a "transition"

example of attire: full office wear with suit, or if is an engineer, perhaps an engineer's suit?

but of course, this will need a lot of resources...

just my humble view, and congrats for the willingness to do something out of the usual. i think this kind of thinking is essential, and is the root of great things

Is this information sharing ot you asking for advice ?

Hi g88, this is asking for any assistance/advice/help. Sorry guys, I should've make it clearer.
Cheers, TH.

That's a good idea and I did swap some of the graduation hat for engineers hard hat.

Not that much resources need too as some already do have a full jumpsuit or a hardhat.

That said, it's still a primarily convocation shoot and just the mortarboard isn't enough to convey the message.
Imagine ur convocation shoot with your friends... Without the robes. It'll be more of a themed portrait than a convo theme shoot...

Which although not wrong, the subjects won't be happy lol

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Nov 21 2014, 05:56 PM

Sounds like the flash tube GG'd
If you need a flash, I guess it's time to get a new one.

Thanks Legend for the advice. It was a pre-owned unit and have been using it for a year plus already. I'll use it first till it dies off permanently. Will search for another pre-owned budgeted Canon brand
Cheers, TH.

Canon EOS 60D EF17-40mm f/4L USM



EOS 60D User Here add me in please , Please give some comments and critique Thanks!

Nice long shutter speed photo !
To make this even better, you can try
1. Multiple exposure. The trees and rocks around are a little underexposed. Having a little details and a tad bit brighter would be good (but not as bright as the water)
2. If possible and if the skies are blue with clouds, merge the exposure of the skies as well so it would not be pure white.

Was it mean take 2 balanced exposure for the skies and waterfall surroundings and merging them togather?

Yes.
Personally I'll do
1 for the waterfall.
1 for the people.
1 for the rocks and trees
1 for the skies.

Merge exposure using Photomatix and photoshop.
Just do not overdo the HDR.
Rocks are still suppose to be darker than water. Not pitch black dark, but still darker.

Common HDR mistakes are oversaturation, overdoing clarity and contrast.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Nov 24 2014, 11:10 AM

either that or photograph in RAW and use the exposure get the exposure needed, multiple layers.

for my interior photography work, i shoot multiple exposures. usually 3. exposure varies 1 - 2 stops depending on how the dark and bright areas vary.

after that, have them in multiple layers in photoshop and do selective clearing. (brush. clear. % set).

Shooting in RAW is good but its just taking to much memory spaces because of uncompressed image right?

With USB 3, cheap HDD and SD cards, storage and transfer speed is a lot cheaper/better now than many years ago.
Unless you're shooting with a medium format, picture size should never be an issue.

1. More than just uncompressed image. It has other details that you can adjust.
2. Doing commercial work - you bring whatever it takes to get the job done
3. Benefits from headroom for PP outweighs the space issue.

You can do a lot with a single RAW file, especially in controlling white balance and balancing backlight. for example

Thanks for your precious response.Ill remember these. One more question , is Shooting in RAW suitable for wedding shot?

Yes of course! If you have the space, why not?

Having RAW and yet not shooting in RAW is just a waste of available flexibility given to you.

I shoot weddings in RAW, I shoot all commercial work in RAW.

If you are one of those who takes few thousand pictures in a few hour session then "no" in my opinion. Simply takes up too much of space and time to process photos.

But if you take less pictures (few hundreds in total maybe?) and you have the time to went through all pictures and process them one by one then it's good

Definitely.

1 RAW file from a 60D should be about 20MB
A 64 GB card can store about 3.2K images.
Far more than enough for any single day event including weddings.
So you don't have to worry about changing cards halfway through.
Now, videos will be a different story.

Before you say that a 64GB with a good speed (40MB/s) is really expensive...
Nowadays You can get one for way below RM100.
www.amazon.com/dp/B00AV3XK62

What will you get ?
Far better dynamic range and details.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Nov 24 2014, 10:20 PM

60D one RAW file is from 21MB to 27MB range, approximation based on my own 60D files. The larger file size is when there are more color details.