C&C - Western

[tevo]

Was down in San Juan Bautista, spoke to this gentleman for a while, and asked if I could take his picture (he had the 'Clint Squint' and I thought it was cowboy looking) . Used the on-camera flash, as well as a SB 600 high camera left (commander mode). I think it came out nicely!

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Western by theofficialtevo, on Flickr

 

[Trever1t]

Good job :thumbup: Lots of cool things to shoot there, one of my favorite little towns around here.

 

[tevo]

Good job :thumbup: Lots of cool things to shoot there, one of my favorite little towns around here.

Thank you sir!

Yeah, there were. Unfortunately that day I had a splitting headache, and wasn't really focusing to the extent that I normally would haha; I left early.

 

[tirediron]

Nicely shot! :thumbup:

 

[tevo]

Nicely shot! :thumbup:

Thank you sir!

 

[480sparky50 49]

 

[tevo]

haha thanks!

 

[LaFoto]

Well, I like that one ... I still have to try and set up the remote flash as slave and use the in-camera one as trigger. Lots of new things to learn now with the new camera, heaps! But when the outcome is like this one then it is well worth the learning!

My daughter's in your area as we speak - I'm curious to hear from her where she'll be going and what she's going to photograph, too!

 

[Dagwood56]

Excellent image!

 

[Frequency]

An outstanding portrait i have seen recently

Regards

 

[The_Traveler]

Nice job but I think a few changes might make it even better.

Note that the hand is pretty dark and the stuff behind the hand is fairly obvious, and his face is semi dark.
If one lightens the face, lightens the hand and increases its red saturation and then clone over or darken the stuff behind his hand, it seems to make a positive difference.

(pardon the edits, it was incoherent before)

 

[cgipson1]

^ Nice edit.. and it does improve on the original!

Tevo.. a larger aperture with the increased baackground blur would have isolated him from the background better also!

 

[Joel_W]

I liked the original because the subject was so cowboyish, but there was so much going on in the background considering it's a portrature. Traveler's edit and crop really pulls it all together.

 

[tevo]

Nice job but I think a few changes might make it even better.

Note that the hand is pretty dark and the stuff behind the hand is fairly obvious, and his face is semi dark.
If one lightens the face, lightens the hand and increases its red saturation and then clone over or darken the stuff behind his hand, it seems to make a positive difference.

(pardon the edits, it was incoherent before)


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^ Nice edit.. and it does improve on the original!

Tevo.. a larger aperture with the increased baackground blur would have isolated him from the background better also!

Agreed, great edit! I'll surely touch it up. And Charlie, I tried that, but I decided that I wanted to preserve the sharpness/detail on the subject, and I found that going wider than f/8 left the edges a bit soft.

I liked the original because the subject was so cowboyish, but there was so much going on in the background considering it's a portrature. Traveler's edit and crop really pulls it all together.

Yeah, I thought the background was busy, but I don't think it's too distracting.

 

[Desi]

Very nice shot, Tevo