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BSU pep rally
Exposure 1/1000 sec @ f/4.0, 200mm, ISO 100, Canon 50D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM
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BSU pep rally
Exposure 1/1000 sec @ f/4.0, 200mm, ISO 100, Canon 50D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM
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not really sure if it's a nice enough portrait shot to be posted on this thread. You guys decide.
jks [:)]
How about we resurrect this thread:
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Nice Sean. I really like the color image.
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I don't have anything new to post. But I'll thank Sean for bringing it back! The birders have been having all the fun recently!! haha.
I also like the color image, the gradient on the wall from light to dark is nice.
Here's one I took today of a girl I went to high school with and her 3 year old.
CC welcome
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Lighting on the subjects looks good and the framing is all good but the background look could probably be improved.
I'd suggest firing a flash directly at the sheet behind them to blow it out more and give a bit of rim lighting through the hair etc. The sheet just needs to be flattened out a bit so the folds in the top left of frame aren't visible.
The emotion is great though - it's obvious the two of them were comfortable with you shooting them which is a big part of getting natural emotion out of portraits.
yeah background is my big gap in my setup, i don't quite have the capital for anything decent either in materials or supports so I wind up jerry-rigging everything.
Twistedframe,
Great timing on the shot! The emotion is wonderful.
Buying a cheap steamer would help your background situation too. (I hope you don't mind this) but I would probably angle the chair a bit so that it is not straight on with the camera. The straight on angle is not very flattering for most subjects although I would not say that it detracts from this photo. A little angle adjustment would just make it a bit better in my humble opinion.
Ahh, this is making me want to go shoot portraits! People pictures are my favorite. "I've never met a landscape that I couldn't put a person in front of and thus make it interesting" - Joe McNally :)
Me just messing around. Not the best, but yeah.
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Canon Rebel XS with Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 @ f/8.0, 1/50th, ISO 400
Strobist Info: Canon 430EXII shoot thru high camera left @ 1/2 power and Kodak P20 zoomed to 80mm bare behind subject right @ 1/8 power. All triggered by CTR-301P's
RAW to tiff and edited in photoshop. Contrast and saturation raised 10. Added type obviously. Sharpened.
Here's a couple of shots from today's session:
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CHEESE!!
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Quick shot of my son as he breezed in and outta here as usual!
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C&C Welcome!
Thanks,
Denise
Hey Denise,
Glad you could find yourself a willing model :-) What was your setup. It looks like it could use a tad more exposure but that may just be my screen at work. This is just taste but I would try to find a way to get some separation of subject and background. He kind of melts away into the darkness. That may have been what you were going for though. Maybe play with the crop a little too. If you're going to keep it a landscape then I would prefer to see the dead space to the right of him as opposed to the left. Portrait orientation may look nice too.
Keep up the good work and keep shooting! I've really seen a nice progression in your photography over the past couple of months :-)
Hi, this is my first post on this forum. I've been shooting with Panasonic LX-2 for a few years, and moved to Canon 500D with kit lens this fall. Since then, I've bought a 50mm 1.8 II, a 430EX-II flash and recently a 17-55 2.8 IS USM (which was the best thing I could've done). I don't have any fancy lighting kit, not even a wireless transmitter, but I do try to follow Neil van Niekerk and his advices about using on-camera bounce flash. Last weekend, my lens was generating a bit of an attention which I decided to abuse a bit and get a nice girl to pose (I read some posing tips the other day, and I managed to remember a few points). We both have zero experience with that, so the image has a few flaws I'm aware of (chopped hand, I should've arranged her fingers to be visible):
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The setup -- 17-55 at 43mm, Manual mode (for control of the lighting), F/2.8 (for the DOF), 1/50s (I wanted some ambient light to register), ISO 800 (arbitrary value, I didn't want to hammer the flash too much and ISO 1600 seemed too much), on-camera flash in TTL, no flash exposure compensation, bounced up and to the right (the 430EX-II won't rotate more than 90° to the right, so I'm pretty sure it was aiming just to the right and about 60° up). Shoot RAW, but the camera got the WB right in this case. The "venue" was a hall in an old (pre-WW1) house in a village, about 2 meters wide, dark brown wooden ceiling and one wall, the other wall which I bounced from was painted white with some obstacles like doors. RAW->JPEG converted in Canon's Digital Photo Pro running under Wine in Linux, cropped. Further PP in the Gimp, adjusted levels of the red on the face, some cosmetic retouching (eyes, teeth, skin blemishes), skin softening, added vignetting, eye & hair sharpening. This was the first time I was PPing a shot, so it took me about two hours :).
The flaws I'm aware of:
- Weird position of the right hand -- the elbow looks kinda strange here (or doesn't it?)
- Palm and fingers are not visible, that's a pity IMHO
- Some disturbing background stuff on the very right
Still, I was really happy when a strobist friend of mine nodded "hey, nice window lighting" when he saw the shot for the first time, and was rather surprised to hear that it was an on-camera TTL flash :). Any suggestions about how to improve stuff are welcome.
Welcome to the forum jkt! We're glad to have you here. Personally, I think you did a fantastic job on the exposure (you just enough ambient in). The pose is a bit awkward (having the elbow so much closer to the lens than the face makes it seem disproportionately bigger. In fact, I thought this was shot at the wider end of your 17-55 until I saw "43mm" (which can cause more distortion in your subject). The pose aside, I think you nailed the bounce flash. It does indeed look like window light--it works perfectly with the scene. Overall, well done!
Welcome JKT! For the sake of mention, if you go with Manual mode and ambient light is a factor in your shot, ISO values aren't "arbitrary": they influence how bright/dark the ambient is just as much as shutter or aperture settings. I'm not sure about the 430II, but I believe some of the newer Canon flashes interpret their color temperature and report that to the camera, so if you have the camera on auto WB it'll be "calibrated" to the flash and unaware of the ambient light.
And one from Good Friday...
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And a follow up on Easter...
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Real Thinker.7D, 70-200mm IS, hand held (bit shaky LOL)
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Terrific lighting Madison!
I'm so excited I finally have some more portraits to add to the thread! Well, one.. but, I got to play with a friend's Alien Bee 800s a few days ago! Four light set up!!
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Strobist Info: 2 AB 800s @ 1/3 power, standard reflector, behind subject on either side. One Vivitar 285HV @ 1/4 power, 43" Westcott shoot-through umbrella, below and aimed up to fill in below the nose and eyes. One Canon 430EXII @ 1/16 through another Westcott 43" shoot through, on a human boom, on axis, slightly above and aimed down for soft light on the face.
Thanks Rodger: people are always so against umbrellas but that picture was lit with one umbrella only, as the only light source, and nothing else. ^_^
Umbrellas rule!
I love umbrellas.
It's funny I was reading a guy models comments on model mayhem a while ago. He said he showed to a shoot once and they had umbrellas set up and he walked out.
What a maroon!
Yeah that's Model Mayhem for you 99,9% wannabes with attitudes acting like jerks and making demands. Horrible.
I call modeling agencies these days asking to do test shoots with new faces. The difference between a professional model even an unexperienced one, and people from Model Mayhem is mind boggling.
5D, 24-105 @ 105, 5.6, 1/50
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Wow - absolutely stunning. The catch lights in the eyes are fantastic. Just a bit unsure about the softness on the sides of frame. Is that due fo the DOF or did you make some changes in post?
Really nice shot mate - well done.
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Thanks
Yes, PSE5. oval blur Vignett then square black vignett.
Mark
Little trip to DC with some sister's friends from Baltimore.
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Both shot with 350D w/ 85 f/1.8@f/2.8
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I like them Garrett [Y]
Nice photos, Garrett! Now I have another lens added to my list and this one isn't even expensive!! [Y] [Y]
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Oh yeah the 85 f/1.8 is a fine piece of glass. I picked mine up off ebay for about $300 and it had absolutely nothing wrong with it except some small dust particles inside it. I just love it and the colors and contrast just beat that of any of my other lenses. It's also a damn for FoV for portraits and the frame is perfect on crop & full frame alike.
Though if I had the dough I'd get the f/1.2 version in a heartbeat. [:P]
Some old skool bling in this portrait:
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Awesome! [:D]
I'm seeing a specific personal style in your photos, I like that [Y]
Jan
I think I shot this with my 135L, wide open. The 40D had to do for this shoot since my 5D MKII wasn't delivered yet. As you would've guess it, I had to stand a bit further back to get this shot. haha.
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