Post Your Best Portrait Shots!

[Sean Setters]

Keith-


I hope you don't mind, but I thought I'd take a shot at making your picture black & white while trying to preserve/enhance the lighting ratio. I think it turned out alright.
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[Keith B]

Keith-


I hope you don't mind, but I thought I'd take a shot at making your picture black &amp; white while trying to preserve/enhance the lighting ratio. I think it turned out alright.
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Don't mind at all. Looks good. It looks real similar to what I had. I think I meant more of, I would have lit it entirely different If I were shooting for BW.


Here is what I got from PS CS3


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[Sean Setters]

Yeah, I like yours better. I tried to enhance the contrast (locally, on her face)...but I like the more typical red filter results you have there.

[Rodger]

Keith,


I dont think I mentioned this before, but nice catch lights!


BW looks good!


-Rodger

[Keith B]

Thanks Roger!


The Soflighters make a real nice catch. They are almost perfectly round and have the diffuser on the front too. I really, really like them. I have the 36" and the 60". I highly recommend them.

[Sean Setters]

I recently purchased a 14" Lumodi beauty dish. I tested it out this weekend and was quite impressed with the results. Since it was quite cramped in this location, I used the 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5. The second flash firing on the background wasn't used in the 1st and 3rd shots.

[devsalvi]

Thanks Sean, Keith and Rob. Your work is inspiring Thanks to your motivation I ended up taking one more self obsessed click, of myself. Heres an attempt at B/W


Cheers!


Dev


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