Post Your Best Portrait Shots!

[Daniel Browning]

[] Thanks. He was bigger than most of the high school football team... while he was still in middle school. It really stands out because the rest of the photos in this album are like the following photo of my cousin. I love skipping out on fill, but the lack of backlight really ruins the photo IMHO.

[thesoprano]

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Took this one of my niece out in the front yard back when the leaves were still turning.

[jks_photo]

here is what I feel to be my best portrait shot to date


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did a little vignette asa well..... any thoughts on what's wrong or how to improve the shot is welcome...... I did notice that I blew out some of the details on the left side of the picture......

[btaylor]

Recent shot from a wedding. Still not sure if weddings are where I want to head with my photography, it's very hectic but a lot of fun. Time will tell I suppose, I have a few more coming up so they might either make or break me!


5D2, 24 - 70mm f/2.8L @48mm, f/6.3, ISO 100. 1/400 sec. Plenty of photoshop. Thanks for looking, C & C welcome as always.


Cheers, Ben.



Jono and Nay by Ben__Taylor, on Flickr

[Rob Gardner]

Ben -


Really nice shot, great use of light and nice composition. I

[btaylor]

Hi Rob,


The pseudo tilt-shift blur was intentional. I guess I wanted to emphasise the centre of frame with the bouquet and their upper bodies because the foreground really didn

[Sean Setters]

I agree with Rob...the rather crude emulation of tilt shift is a big distraction. If you want to emphasize the center of the frame, try adding a slight vignetting instead. A slight vignetting around the edges will help draw the eye without being terribly noticeable.

[btaylor]

Actually now that I look at it Rob there was another reason for the blur at the bottom of frame. The bus had a flat tyre on the left side so it had a lean to it that made the shot look really akward to me. By blurring the foreground I was able to rotate the bus slightly without having to do too much cloning of the foreground to get it looking normal after the rotate. I've got a couple fo thousand photos to go through so time tends to be limited with you need to process so many. Here's a copy of the original file for reference - amazing what you can do with a "little" work in post. Thanks again.


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