Post Your Best Portrait Shots!

[Keith B]

I messed with it real quick. I just played with the (un)saturation, darkened the red, blue and cyan channels.I duped the layer thenadded some contrast to the whole thing, then masked the whole layer and then reversed painted cheeks, eyes etc. to give more contrast with out making it too dark.


You can probably do a lot better with the RAW. Especially with the color tones. On this low rez images adding noise didn't work.


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[Keith B]

Just posting this because it is really the only shot I've taken with my new 35 1.4.


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[Sheiky]

Something different then what I've seen here so far[:P]:


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The Joker 50D 100mm macro f2.8 @ f7.1 iso400 1/200 430EXII bounced of ceiling ettl


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Juliet 50D 17-55 f2.8 is usm @ 37mm f7.1 iso500 1/50 flash triggered by cactus v4 manual 1/32 or something [:P]at rimmlight with a blue colorgel on it and a normal softtone lamp on her face. (held it by it's standard)


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Corine 50D 17-55 f2.8 is usm @ 55mm f7.1 iso100 1/200 flash wireless triggered by cactus v4 manual again 1/32 or something from left behind above.





My little sister wants to become a grime-specialist so once in a while she makes some nice creations so I get the chance to shoot some shots. So I try with el cheapo indoor stuff like light and last month I bought a cactus wireless trigger and flash gels, so I tested them. Unfortunately I lost my trigger and reciever, still don't know how [:P]


Only the first picture has some adjustments like more blacks and contrast. Only minor. The other two are straigth out of camera.


All comments are welcome, I need to learn so please beat me up []

[lcnewkirk]

Just posting this because it is really the only shot I've taken with my new 35 1.4.

Really? I totally dig this photo! I love the tonal range and her expression. I know she's not really looking at anything, and I'm sure she'sthinking "Can you please hurry this up so I can get back to ..." but the composition makes me want to know what she's looking at. I really feel a lot of emotion from thisphoto. What was the EXIF? Was the light source a window?


Lewis

[Keith B]

Just posting this because it is really the only shot I've taken with my new 35 1.4.

Really? I totally dig this photo! I love the tonal range and her expression. I know she's not really looking at anything, and I'm sure she'sthinking "Can you please hurry this up so I can get back to ..." but the composition makes me want to know what she's looking at. I really feel a lot of emotion from thisphoto. What was the EXIF? Was the light source a window?


Lewis

Thanks Lewis.


Actually she was looking out the window observing the weather, nothing planned expression wise. It has been out of the ordinarily cold here in FL and it was rainy so she was just looking. I had just been clicking away for a few frames before. The window is the sole light source.


EXIF: 5DmkII1/40sec35 1.4L @ 1.4 ISO400


The full rez is quite breathtaking as far as color and detail. It is really unbelievable for a shot at 1.4. I am so tickled with the 35L. If they are going to upgrade this lens, good luck there isn't much room for improvement.

[Rodger]

The window is the sole light source.

I wish my windows did that! haha. I could've saved on this strobist stuff!


And by the way Keith, thank you for taking that photo from my previous post and messing with it. It got me on a track that I like better for the photo. I'll update it here after I export them from LR. Thanks for your help!


Rodger

[Keith B]

My pleasure Rodger.


I'm looking forward to see the next version of that shot.


It's funny talking about the window light and strobes. When I first started shooting way back when, most of my favorite shots were natural light. Anton Cobjin was my hero loved the stuff he shot of U2 for the Joshua Tree. So everything I shot, I was trying to emulate that. Years later I get back into photography, working with with studio photographers (they were obsessed with f/8 and ISO100) and all the fancy strobes I became obsessed with them. Now, I no longer would depend on the sun I'll make my own. All my shots started looking synthetic and it was everything my photographic instinct wasn't. Along the way I became so obsessed with the strobes, I kind of forgot what natural light looked like and that essentially you want your strobes to match natural light as much as possible.


I have been hell bent on trying to make my strobes match natural light (as much as possible) and now I finding my strobe shots are flat.


So I'm trying to retrain myself, leaving the strobes in the case and working with natural light. Then I'll ad a strobe here and there and try and find that balance.

[devsalvi]

A picture I took of my wife when she visited this Christmas.

[powers_brent]

Kodak P20 Flash shot thru camera right @ 1/4? power and 430EXII at 1/16? behnd subject left tiggered by yong nuo CTR-301p. SOOC!!!


Canon Rebel XS with Canon EF 100mm f/2.0 @ 2.0, 1/125, ISO 200

[bouwy]

Hi guys,


<span style="font-size: medium; color: #0000ff;"]Like taking portrait shots? Just post them and share with us!


This is, as I consider, one of my best portraits I've ever taken. On campus of University of Toronto (University College), Canada, early 2008. Open for comments &amp; suggestions [img]/emoticons/emotion-1.gif[/img]


Some notes: Toronto's winter is always quite cold. As I remember, there were a couple of unusual warm days before the day when this picture was taken; that's why snow was melted and the ground can be seen. However, at the moment when I was taking this picture it was about -10 degrees... The ground was frozen and I was lying on it toachieve such a perspective.





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Canon Rebel XTi + 17-85/4-5.6 IS @ 17mm, F5.6, 1/50s, ISO200, w/o flash.


Benjamin
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