Post Your Best Portrait Shots!

[Tallywho]

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BSU pep rally


Exposure 1/1000 sec @ f/4.0, 200mm, ISO 100, Canon 50D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM

[jks]

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not really sure if it's a nice enough portrait shot to be posted on this thread. You guys decide.





jks []

[M.Mobin]

[Sean Setters]

How about we resurrect this thread:

[Keith B]

Nice Sean. I really like the color image.

[Rodger]

How about we resurrect this thread:

I don't have anything new to post. But I'll thank Sean for bringing it back! The birders have been having all the fun recently!! haha.


I also like the color image, the gradient on the wall from light to dark is nice.

[twistedphrame]

Here's one I took today of a girl I went to high school with and her 3 year old.


CC welcome


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[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