Post Your Best Portrait Shots!

This is more of a candid than a portrait, but here goes....


My daughter between games at an out of town soccer tournament. Shot from about 10 feet away, open window at my back, camera left, florescent light above her head. Canon 30D, 70-200 f/4 non-IS, AV mode @ f/4, ISO 200, shutter 1/40, FL 118mm, RAW processed in DPP and resized. I had the camera set up for the last game and just snapped this shot. I didn't think about hand holding at this shutter speed and was pleasantly surprised at the outcome.


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I took this photo in 1995 with my EOS 5 film camera.


Soft smileamong deep lines in his face always make me emotinal...


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Really great shots Erden!



I really like the colours, and the facial expression and features are very moving.


Thumbs up.

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Very nice, John.


I like the composition and the lighting, and the background green-grey works well with the other colors in the picture.

Is this photo under-exposed? Please help.


Thanks,


Dev


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Two of my favorites:


40D, 50/1.8, Manual at f/2.8, ISO 400, 1/60th, triggering two 580EX IIs, both with shoot-through umbrellas.


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1D Mark III, 24-105/4IS at 58mm, Av at -2EC, f/4, ISO 800, 1/60th, triggering two 580EX IIs. The "A" flash was camera left and up high on a stand, with a 1/2 CTO gel and a Honl Shorty Snoot. The "B" flash was also camera left, about a foot lower and a foot closer than the A, with a 1/4 CTO gel and a Rosco 103 "Tough Spun" gel as a poor man's diffuser. Biggest mistake was not getting a stand-in to check lighting ahead of time - I wish I'd brought the B flash up somewhat.


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Both very nice, peety3, and your descriptions of how you got the nice lighting are appreciated.


I think it's interesting that for the first pic your flashes cost 10x as much as the lens :)

Here's a few of my favourites:


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hard to beat half a bald dude!