Random portraits thread

[flat-planedCrank]

[Yellabelly]

andy-xr said:

ETA one I'm working on, bit contrasty and still needs skin shadows looking at

Edited by andy-xr on Sunday 14th June 22:32

Looks good Andy, the model is very attractive and the effect is very much 1930-40s with the slightly high key skin tone and deep shadow, well done.

YB

[andy-xr]

Cheers YB

I messed up the lighting on this one in hindsight, I'd been using a beauty dish and hairlight but wish I'd just used a softbox on this one. Never mind...

[baz7175]

Mrs Baz taking a shot of Eilean Donan Castle...

[andy-xr]

I've stared at this too long, can someone look at it and tell me if the subject lighting is enough/too little?

[toothrot]

something very weird to me Andy, looks almost superimposed onto the scene. Also its very golden and to the green side of the hue, was this by intention (as I know to get the warmth you might have gone that way but its almost feeling too green)

sorry yellow. if you're happy with the hue try a bit of desaturation over the whole iamge

Edited by toothrot on Monday 22 June 21:38

[andy-xr]

Weird isnt it? The green and yellow from the corn together with flash onto the subject seem to create a bit of colour cast I cant shake, and a twist of levels makes it all look a bit odd. I quite like it in a "not how it should have looked" way


ETA - it's all one shutter click, no bracket, masking or superimposedness

Edited by andy-xr on Monday 22 June 21:51

[toothrot]

ok hit me for this but try playing around with the wb source. If you shot with an sb flash it will override the camera and tell it the colour temp to use so fiddle around with the white balance.

Of course this is an example as to why canon make superior cameras Seriously though try the wb, did you use a cto on the flash (please tell me not)

[Muska]

I've posted this elsewhere but what the hell.



Looking back at this shot i wish i'd had a snoot/barndoors to stop the light spilling out onto my jar at the back.

the shot above, to me looks a little under exposed (subject and background) Although my monitor is not calibrated so i could be wrong.

Matt.

[andy-xr]

Nope, flash fired in Manual off camera at around 50mm to the rear right just using the inbuilt diffuser, as it's not powerful enough to overcome ambient (shot taken around 1pm) with a brolly and stay far enough away to not have it in shot.

WB is manually set in post processing, I think it was somewhere around 5300'ish processed at Adobe Standard. I usually just leave it on Camera Standard, I might play around with it a bit more in a week or so, got image blindness with it now.

Edited by andy-xr on Monday 22 June 22:36

[toothrot]

love that shot of yours matt, no problem witht eh light fall off at the back I like that myself

[KB_S1]

A few random (and un-planned) portraits from the last few years.

From a days work.



From a day in the pub a few years back.

[Muska]

Thank you toothrot, i love the fall off it's the bit thats spilled onto my jaw line, it's all i look at now when i see the picture!

[toothrot]

you're the photographer, funny isnt it that what yu see as the fault others see differently. I'd say its the rflection in the lens thats the bug for me

[Dogsey]

Jim.



My Dad was recently presented with one of the highest awards a scout leader can achieve and he asked me along to take a few photo's. This old boy has been in scouting for many years - hopefully my B&W treatment helps to convey some of his character. Click the pic for rebigmification.

[toothrot]

nice work, would have been great in that one if he had jus made that eye contact, the candid eye contact. What award? I was in scouting for years loved every minute of it, did my venture scout badge but discovered booze and women before going on to do the DoE

[Spooks]

andy-xr said:

I've stared at this too long, can someone look at it and tell me if the subject lighting is enough/too little?

Love the idea but I would have lit her a tad more, being as subdued as it is makes the entire image a bit too heavy feeling if ya know what I mean. All imho though as there is no way I could light as subtly as this

[Dogsey]

toothrot said:

nice work, would have been great in that one if he had jus made that eye contact, the candid eye contact. What award? I was in scouting for years loved every minute of it, did my venture scout badge but discovered booze and women before going on to do the DoE

Thanks, agree about the eye contact but he was deep in conversation with someone and didn't even look at me when the flash went off!

My dad was awarded the Silver Acorn, about time too really as he went right through scouting as a boy and then became a leader when my older brother joined cubs ... some 40 odd years ago!

[Dogsey]

One from today. Spent some time wandering around where I work today and saw this girl sitting alone completely lost in her thoughts.



D50 + Nikon 80-400mm VR @ 400mm, processed as Fuji Neopan 1600.

Click for big size where hopefully you can see the detail better.

[toothrot]

Love voyeurism, very nice candid shot