Random portraits thread

[stigmundfreud]

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!

[bramley]

Lovely shots stiggers, and glad you like the 70-200. If you're using it on a shoot I would recommend you put a small piece of tape (I use a small strip off a plaster) over the AF/MF switch as it's easily knocked by accident. Then of course the camera will 'allow' you to fire off a load of shots that you later find are OOF. Can't be risking that at weddings (it has happened) so I always tape it up before a wedding.

[stigmundfreud]

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

[andy-xr]

You using Alien Skin or was that done in camera?

[stigmundfreud]

Alien skin?

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

[jon-]

He's probably talking about the bokeh, which your lovely new 2.8 should do all by itself

[stigmundfreud]

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

[JonRB]

Being the kind of photographer who just "sees" a pic and takes it, I find the whole digital photography thing where as much is done in PhotoShop as through the lens rather daunting and off-putting. To be honest.

Edited by JonRB on Wednesday 10th June 00:01

[stigmundfreud]

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

[andy-xr]

It has it's uses, like anything else. Shooting 10 feet away from the subject on 3/4 length, 50mm @ F11 doesnt lead to fantastic background blur really, and in some cases I've found I cant get any further away or wider on aperture indoors. Depends what you want I suppose

[stigmundfreud]

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?!

[jon-]

stigmundfreud said:

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?!

Once you get handy with photoshop it's fairly easy to replicate, just a little more time consuming.

[toothrot]

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

[andy-xr]

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

[toothrot]

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?

[andy-xr]

It's a full boxed product, original case with CD's and serial never been used.

I mailed the seller prior to purchase and asked for reassurance that if I had any problems at install they would refund me, they agreed and also added refund of shipping to and from in that on top if I did have an issue. I didnt though, installed perfectly, even checked it with Adobe once I'd received it and they confirmed it was a UK product, so no import from US/EMEA

I know what you're saying, it's a bit risky, but checking with them that you'll actually get your money back if it goes tits was enough reassurance for me

[Yellabelly]

"Toothrot".............wtf!

OOOooherreeuuw! that leaves a terrible mental image! so based on some of your more radical models will you now be disporting yourself in front of the lens???? !!!!!



YB

[toothrot]

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

[JonRB]

toothrot said:

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

I find GIMP ok actually. PhotoShop users always seem to moan about it, but to be honest they're each as quirky as the other. And you can't really argue with the pice of GIMP.

The only thing that appears to be missing is PS's 'liquify' tool. Otherwise GIMP is pretty well featured.

Having said that, my usuage is pretty basic. Just clone, heal, gaussian blur, and the like. So I'm probably talking out of my arse here. LOL

[Major Bloodnok]

Lots of chat with no pictures, recently...