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I'm only just really starting to photograph people seriously. I've been a product photographer now for nearly 4 years and I'm sick to death of it - so I'm slowly but surely starting to add stuff to my portfolio that is relevant to where I want to go, rather than where I've been, before I dare call myself a portrait/headshot/people photographer.
I have a few portraits/headshots in my current portfolio, but none of them really could be described as my best stuff, so I've been putting my feelers out for people who want a few shots done, I've registered on Model Mayhem and StarNow and am finding practice victims who'll pose for free.
A friend at work put one of his friends in touch with me who wanted some proper photos of herself because most of the stuff she has are iPhone photos "which are fine but I never look really nice in them", so we got together for a day in Camden Town in London and did some shots.
After 600-ish shots, this is my favourite so far. We got a few poses in this place and some others in a similar under-a-bridge place that I haven't got round to processing yet, but this, I think is a good start.
This is obviously the before and after - and I'd appreciate some opinions
The set up was just me and the camera. I didn't take the reflector out because I had no assistant to hold it and I have no portable power supply for my strobes, so this is purely natural light (we did some flash photography inside, I may put some of them up later when they're done).
There was no consensus on style - this was purely what I had in mind when I saw the original straight out of the camera. I like the "Twilight" style colouring and the stylised shading.
Settings were: ISO 640, Shutter 1/200, f/2
I used f/2 because I didn't want to raise the ISO any higher - 640 is about my acceptable limit on the D300s and I only just got away with 1/200 for some reason, the shots either side of this one had very slight, but enough-to-annoy-me motion blur.
I'd love to know your opinions, what would you have done differently in the original? Is there anything that jumps out at you in the finished one that I might have missed? Is the pose ok? How about the skin smoothing (not that she needed much!)? My choice of light direction?
I have a few portraits/headshots in my current portfolio, but none of them really could be described as my best stuff, so I've been putting my feelers out for people who want a few shots done, I've registered on Model Mayhem and StarNow and am finding practice victims who'll pose for free.
A friend at work put one of his friends in touch with me who wanted some proper photos of herself because most of the stuff she has are iPhone photos "which are fine but I never look really nice in them", so we got together for a day in Camden Town in London and did some shots.
After 600-ish shots, this is my favourite so far. We got a few poses in this place and some others in a similar under-a-bridge place that I haven't got round to processing yet, but this, I think is a good start.
This is obviously the before and after - and I'd appreciate some opinions
The set up was just me and the camera. I didn't take the reflector out because I had no assistant to hold it and I have no portable power supply for my strobes, so this is purely natural light (we did some flash photography inside, I may put some of them up later when they're done).
There was no consensus on style - this was purely what I had in mind when I saw the original straight out of the camera. I like the "Twilight" style colouring and the stylised shading.
Settings were: ISO 640, Shutter 1/200, f/2
I used f/2 because I didn't want to raise the ISO any higher - 640 is about my acceptable limit on the D300s and I only just got away with 1/200 for some reason, the shots either side of this one had very slight, but enough-to-annoy-me motion blur.
I'd love to know your opinions, what would you have done differently in the original? Is there anything that jumps out at you in the finished one that I might have missed? Is the pose ok? How about the skin smoothing (not that she needed much!)? My choice of light direction?