natural light portraits - would love feedback to help me improve.

MonteMama · Oct 15, 2008

I've been reading, browsing, practicing and so on like crazy for quite a while now. Here are some random shots from the past couple weeks... would love some input to help me improve. Specifically, as I'm just using natural light for now, I'd love any tips that will help me find optimal lighting for portraits.

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DRATOM · Oct 15, 2008

What is there to improve? I absolutely love #2! :thumbup:

Evil Eagle · Oct 15, 2008

The eyes in #2 are insane! But I dont like the crop.

iflynething · Oct 15, 2008

Are you shooting manual. Only thing I can see is some are overexposed: 1 (face), 3 shirt

~Michael~

MonteMama · Oct 15, 2008

Thanks for the comments.

iflynething said:
Are you shooting manual. Only thing I can see is some are overexposed: 1 (face), 3 shirt

~Michael~

I switch it up... manual, aperture priority. Occasionally shutter priority. In #1, I am pretty sure that the SOOC exposure was ok, I bumped it up a bit in LR. #3.... that was a tough shoot and gave me even more admiration for wedding photogs who have to be sure not to blow out details on wedding dresses. :hail:

PattiS · Oct 15, 2008

#1 is actually my favorite of the bunch.

Was #2 undexposed sooc?

MonteMama · Oct 17, 2008

PattiS said:
#1 is actually my favorite of the bunch.
Was #2 undexposed sooc?

I am guilty in general of underexposure (if there is a UA group out there - underexposers anonymous... I should probably join). This one wasn't really underexposed, though. Here it is sooc: