Originally Posted by
Dr Croubie
To me, he does look a tiny bit orange, my monitor's factory calibrated but because i'm on linux, god knows what my desktop is doing before it gets to the monitor. Still, not an unnatural orange, i've seen fake tan in real life that looks a lot lot worse. In short, looks good to me. (it's winter here so i'm used to seeing pasty-white faces everywhere atm)
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As for the whole effect (any effect, really), i'm sure if you overdo it or see it everywhere, it would become a bit cliche, but i haven't seen this effect before (i do tend to live under a rock sometimes though)
Just for reference, it looks like you've down the portrait wide open, and the background a bit narrower F, was that intentional? You definitely need a bit of distinction between the 'framed' background and the 'actual' background like you've got (otherwise it'd just look like a guy holding a frame), but i think the actual background is a bit bright and distracting, especially behind his head. maybe reverse it? high DOF in the frame, low DOF outside the frame? not sure if that would look better or worse.
also, is the vignetting intentional, or you have an efs 15-85 too? i'd dial that back a bit, but then, i don't much like anything with vignetting, my personal preferences will be different to the next guy.
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one idea i just had when you mentioned weddings, would be the groom standing outside, with his hand reaching through to the bride in the 'frame'. or maybe it's been done already, not sure...
still, i can't even process 1 raw shot in 5 minutes, this is a lot better than i could ever hope to do...