Post Your Best Portrait Shots!

[btaylor]

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.

[twistedphrame]

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.

[Rodger]

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

[powers_brent]

Me just messing around. Not the best, but yeah.





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.

[Scott]

[Sean Setters]

Here's a couple of shots from today's session: