Portraits in London

[hdcol101]

Took this the other day in London quite proud of it. Thought I would share.

One thing I feel like i can never get the hang of is colour correction. Anybody got any tips? I think I got lucky with this one.

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[ronlane]

If you are in LR, use the eye dropper for WB on the shoes, they should be white.

 

[chuasam]

use a ColorChecker Passport

 

[DanOstergren]

If you are in LR, use the eye dropper for WB on the shoes, they should be white.

white balance looks fine on my display.

 

[chuasam]

If you are in LR, use the eye dropper for WB on the shoes, they should be white.

white balance looks fine on my display.

the focus however seems completely off

 

[DanOstergren]

If you are in LR, use the eye dropper for WB on the shoes, they should be white.

white balance looks fine on my display.

the focus however seems completely off

Not so much that I personally wouldn't see it as a fault.

 

[tirediron]

the focus however seems completely off

There seems something wrong with the focus above the waist; not sure if it's missed focus or a processing issue, or...

 

[tirediron]

If you are in LR, use the eye dropper for WB on the shoes, they should be white.

white balance looks fine on my display.

the focus however seems completely off

Not so much that I personally wouldn't see it as a fault.

I'll have to respectfully disagree; in portraiture you really can't quantify missed focus. Missed focus = circular file.

 

[DanOstergren]

If you are in LR, use the eye dropper for WB on the shoes, they should be white.

white balance looks fine on my display.

the focus however seems completely off

Not so much that I personally wouldn't see it as a fault.

I'll have to respectfully disagree; in portraiture you really can't quantify missed focus. Missed focus = circular file.

With this type of image, which I would consider a fashion image that tells a bit of a story and not a portrait, focus in my opinion becomes less important, but certainly not entirely unimportant. As photographers, it's definitely something we should be pointing out to each other and critiquing, but I would never lead a photographer to believe it was a failure due to some soft focus. It would be a different story if the focus was unintentionally 3 feet off, or a headshot where the face is out of focus but the ears are sharp (with no jewelry), but in this case it's so subtle and it takes nothing away from the image that I personally wouldn't see it as a fail.

 

[hdcol101]

If you are in LR, use the eye dropper for WB on the shoes, they should be white.

white balance looks fine on my display.

the focus however seems completely off

Not so much that I personally wouldn't see it as a fault.

I'll have to respectfully disagree; in portraiture you really can't quantify missed focus. Missed focus = circular file.

With this type of image, which I would consider a fashion image that tells a bit of a story and not a portrait, focus in my opinion becomes less important, but certainly not entirely unimportant. As photographers, it's definitely something we should be pointing out to each other and critiquing, but I would never lead a photographer to believe it was a failure due to some soft focus. It would be a different story if the focus was unintentionally 3 feet off, or a headshot where the face is out of focus but the ears are sharp (with no jewelry), but in this case it's so subtle and it takes nothing away from the image that I personally wouldn't see it as a fail.

Yeah the focus is slightly off, didnt think it was to noticeable unless you zoom right in. This is a low res file too, which probably doesn't help.

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[ronlane]

If you are in LR, use the eye dropper for WB on the shoes, they should be white.

white balance looks fine on my display.

I'm not disagreeing with you Dan, the OP asked for tips about WB and that was the first thing that popped into my mind was to do that. (I'm not one to get nit picky about someone elses WB issues because I struggle myself. Which is why I have the colorchecker passport that I try to use every opportunity that I can.)

 

[DanOstergren]

If you are in LR, use the eye dropper for WB on the shoes, they should be white.

white balance looks fine on my display.

I'm not disagreeing with you Dan, the OP asked for tips about WB and that was the first thing that popped into my mind was to do that. (I'm not one to get nit picky about someone elses WB issues because I struggle myself. Which is why I have the colorchecker passport that I try to use every opportunity that I can.)

I must have misunderstood the post then.