Random portraits thread

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Toastgirl said:

stigmundfreud said:

pour vous Toastgirl

Merci beaucoup Mike!
Very sexy!

its my best self portrait to date, god bless slender tone

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she describes anyone over 24 as too old to date!

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the first one is the exact face I pulled when Jenn said over 24s were too old

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bit of an impromptu shoot yesterday. Vicki normally does very edgy alternate stuff, attracts weirdo's she says so wanted some nicer stuff for her portfolio





and for Andy here is what was used sparingly, the light was just fantastic without it



full contact sheet => http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindon/sets/72157619...

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glad you like it Jon



the effect works well like this I think

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she is very pretty and personally I think this look suits her much more than her usual preferred style.

The lens used was the 70-200 f2.8 L, cracking lens and not regretted spending so much on it!

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I concentrate so much on keeping the thing stable there is no risk of me accidentally catching a button

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Alien skin?

At her request I removed some blemishes afterwards. If you watch the slide show you will see the differential

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ah right! Never heard of Alien Skin, being a child of Ken Rockwell I like to shoot it all in camera

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thats why I dont use or have Photoshop installed, the only processing that goes on is in Digital Photo Professonal which is nothing more than the lab tools you would use in film... actually you cant dodge or burn with it so its less flexible in that respect.

I do use a blemish tool if a model asks for it but well, thats the same as bleaching

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after seeing the tool I like the idea of shooting at higher f stop and then using it. The issue shooting wide is the DoF can be so shallow that nose = sharp, eyes = off.

but 2 hundred dorrah?!

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I'm skilled in the dark arts but my conciense stops me using pirated software and Gimp is slow, clunky and as user friendly as any other open source application... so I hardly use it

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andy-xr said:

The version of CS3 I'm currently using was bought unregistered from ebay as a boxed copy completely original for £150. I'm toying with upgrading it to CS4 and have spoken to Adobe already after seeing someone on here did the same recently

Sorry but I refuse to buy software from Ebay. How do you know its legit and not stolen from somewhere? 600 quid software, unopened and sold for 150 sovo's? Might look into it as I doubt you would pay money for hookey stuff, not that much money anyway but I'm always a little suspicious.

did it come with its own serial key?

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Its actually Herman Toothrot but some rotter has the name already. Figured I needed a name that would stand out a little from the norm when submitting portfolios for work etc

Portraits by Michael or TOOTHROT PHOTOGRAPHY

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like the shot! And discussion is good!

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really like the light on that last shot, looks so natural its as if I'm there

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loving it fp

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looks good on this monitor

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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

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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)