Christmas Eve Family Portraits

Restomage · Dec 23, 2010

I got hired by a client from out of state to shoot their family portraits. We all had a good time and got some good photos.

You can see the pics here on my blog (Scroll down a bit if you see a new posting above it)! C&C is always appreciated and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

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Frequency · Dec 24, 2010

A typical wonderful shot; would you please post this in my "Violet sisters" in theme section? it is as if you took this for that section :lol:

Regards

Restomage · Dec 24, 2010

Frequency said:
A typical wonderful shot; would you please post this in my "Violet sisters" in theme section? it is as if you took this for that section

Regards

Thanks for the compliment! Be sure to check out the rest on my blog if you haven't already done so. :thumbup:

oldmacman · Dec 24, 2010

Really nice exposure and I love the colour palette for the shot. I've stopped using my wide angle for people shots to avoid the distortion on the edges. Maybe a different arrangment would allow for a less severe lens. Great looking group though. You can tell that little girl loves the camera.

Robin Usagani · Dec 24, 2010

But it is not Christmas eve yet? Maybe if you are in Australia?

Robin Usagani · Dec 24, 2010

Yeah man.. I think the lighting is perfect. I just dont like your lens selection. If you have to use that wide angle I would have taken it from lower angle a bit. It feels like you were looking down and made your subject to be shorter. Personally I would have used the same lighting setup but walk back with narrower zoom. This still came out good though. Also, the guy on the right has something sticking out of the back of his head that really bothers me.

Gruen Photo 7 Design · Dec 24, 2010

Good job on the apparel - dark gray & purple

any others?

GeorgieGirl · Dec 24, 2010

They have to be happy, they ALL look good, no misses on anyones expressions!

MDWine · Dec 24, 2010

You definitely got the light spot on!
Strobist info, please?

Restomage · Dec 24, 2010

If you click the link I posted you can see the others I took, I think you guys will like those as well. Usually I'll try to always shoot telephoto however for this situation I couldn't get the stream in the background without shooting down a bit.

As far as strobist info goes, I used a Norman 200c with the diffuser dome as my main light and a sb800 on the hot shoe with the bounce card for a little fill. All of my telephoto shots were all ambient.