Post Your Best Portrait Shots!

[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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[Rob Gardner]

It

[Rodger]

Ben, normally I