Post Your Best Portrait Shots!

[Local Hero]

Welcome to the forums, Hero. Great professional looking protraits. Lighting is spot on.

Thanks. I stumbled across the site this morning and I've spent the better part of the day reading reviews on the site and topics in the forum.

All three of the shots were done with a single speedlite (either a 430EX II or a 600EX-RT) with a shoot through umbrella triggered by a Canon 60D wirelessly, I love that feature of the camera.

[ddt0725]

Welcome, Hero ...these portraits are absolutely fantastic! Very well done!

[bouwy]

Great shots Patrick....Look forward to more

[Dave Johnston]

Aye Carumba, Steve!

Welcome, Patrick! Like the 2nd shot best. Great work on all of them! I've got friends from tallahasee that live up in NC where I went to college. Went to school for mechanical engineering, now they own a beer brewery... guess all that drinking we did paid off in some way.


Dave

[Local Hero]

I'd just like to say thanks to everyone for the warm welcome. I'm looking forward to interacting with people equally addicted and fascinated with photography. My wife can only take so much of me talking about it before she stops pay attention.

[Dave Johnston]

Took some shots of friends for their baby turning 3 months. We had been taking them here in SC for maternity and newborn, but since we were all going to be in KC for a minute, I figured there was as good a place as any to get them!


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr
5D III + 85 f1.8 @ f9 1/125 ISO-250


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr
5D III + 50 1.8 @ f8.0 1/125 ISO-250
This was two shot blend done with some layer masking in photoshop. The buildings were about 2-3 stops too bright for the subjects to be a proper exposure.


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr
5D III + 50 1.8 @ f1.8 1/500 ISO-100
Probably my favorite of the bunch.


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr
5D III + 50 1.8 @ f1.8 1/2000 ISO-100


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr
5D III + 50 1.8 @ f1.8 1/640 ISO-100


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr
5D III + 50 1.8 @ f1.8 1/1600 ISO-100


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr
5D III + 50 1.8 @ f2 1/1250 ISO-100

Sorry, big post. Thanks for looking.

Dave.

[Steve U]

Nice ones Dave, i like the second one and the last one the best.

[Local Hero]

I'm with Steve, I like the second one the best. Seeing those pictures reminded me of this one I took of my son when he was about that age, 4 or 5 months old. My wife, son, and I sneaked into the football stadium early on a Saturday morning to get a picture of him on the field. We had planned on him sitting next to the helmet but as soon as we set him down he rolled over and assumed the position of doing push-ups.

[Steve U]

Give me 20. He looks serious, he probably thinks those shoes are inappropriate for a workout. Nice pic.

[Steve in HB]

Boy. I had to swallow hard before I posted this question. I haven't been able to access any of the photos. All of the links start out like this (or some variation) [img]/cfs...and so on. It's not showing up as a "link" so how do I access the body of work?

Thanks! :'(