A Family Shoot

[misol]

Here are some photos I did at a recent family shoot. I would love and C&C you have to offer:

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[Andrew Sun]

Elegant, nice warm colors. Good job on this series.

[rubbertree]

beautiful work.

[misol]

thanks for the kudos. Any criticism? (besides being a little soft, I didnt sharpen for web)

[kric2schaam626]

I'm new at this! How do you get such great lighting?

[misol]

the golden hour (before sunset). My favorite for kids and family that will be moving around alot

[NateS]

These are very nice...I'll throw a criticism out there though.

About half of these have problems with overexposure on the shirts. It's not easy to shoot white in bright sunlight and keep detail....having them wear something a different color might have helped. Otherwise I would have underexposed their face a tad and got the exposure more "on" for the shirts....then bumped the brightness of their faces in pp a little bit. Either that or see if you can save the shirts in post.

But...considering you were shooting white, it looks pretty good. I just find the over brightness of the shirts to be very distracting.

[gpimages]

The bright shirts don't bother me. I would crop #1 a little tighter (not so much space above). Other than that this is a nice series.

[camz]

Very good session. Your subjects look very relaxed, gives me that Sunday afternoon feeling.

camz
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[misol]

Thanks all. I really appreciate the feedback. The shirts are bright, but not blown out, that might be a monitor issue. Black hair with white shirts is always a bit tricky, but overall I think I metered ok. I had to under expose a tad (in raw) and fix in post processing.

[Lyncca]

These are cute. I also think that the shirts are overexposed, but it is really hard not to do. I expose for the shirt, then brighten the skin in PP.

They look kinda soft, even for sharpening for web, and is it me, or are these kinda noisy?

[misol]

really it might be a monitor thing because my histogram showed me what I was shooting. I did blow out in some pics, but not ones that made the final cut for the most part. I had to be really careful because if I underexposed too much, their hair would become a black blob. So I am pretty confident I didnt over expose on the shirts.