Corporate Portraits

[Brandon Hill]

i really did. i made popcorn for this.

 

[Pallycow]

Funny story behind my being asked to shoot these! The company has had three other "Professional" photographers in to shoot headshots and such this past year... and they all had major issues. Like shadows in the background, really bright flash glare highlights, focus and color issues, really uneven contrast, etc...!

I was asked to do some other shots (landscape stuff for website) for them based on some of my Flickr landscapes.. and then they asked me to do these. And I have been trying to stay away from this stuff... lol! I much prefer bugs!

lol. I much prefer my bugs and flowers too. Only started shooting people to make money to buy more gear. Don't really like shooting people.

ex girlfriend's sister asked me to do their corp shots too, based off my facebook stuff, which is really my playground of not so great photos. lol. They had a "pro" do their last ones...silly poses...busy backgrounds, blah blah.

I often wonder how folks get paid for crap.

 

[Pallycow]

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i really did. i made popcorn for this.

either your wb is off or you don't have enough butter on the lower popcorn. I'd guess the latter. Butter evenly man.

 

[cgipson1]

Funny story behind my being asked to shoot these! The company has had three other "Professional" photographers in to shoot headshots and such this past year... and they all had major issues. Like shadows in the background, really bright flash glare highlights, focus and color issues, really uneven contrast, etc...!

I was asked to do some other shots (landscape stuff for website) for them based on some of my Flickr landscapes.. and then they asked me to do these. And I have been trying to stay away from this stuff... lol! I much prefer bugs!

lol. I much prefer my bugs and flowers too. Only started shooting people to make money to buy more gear. Don't really like shooting people.

ex girlfriend's sister asked me to do their corp shots too, based off my facebook stuff, which is really my playground of not so great photos. lol. They had a "pro" do their last ones...silly poses...busy backgrounds, blah blah.

I often wonder how folks get paid for crap.

Lot of new 6 month pro's out there... pretty amazing actually! But what can you do? I b1tch about it constantly, and it just gets me banned! lol!

 

[tirediron]

Yeah, much better.

This!

 

[Brandon Hill]

Funny story behind my being asked to shoot these! The company has had three other "Professional" photographers in to shoot headshots and such this past year... and they all had major issues. Like shadows in the background, really bright flash glare highlights, focus and color issues, really uneven contrast, etc...!

I was asked to do some other shots (landscape stuff for website) for them based on some of my Flickr landscapes.. and then they asked me to do these. And I have been trying to stay away from this stuff... lol! I much prefer bugs!

lol. I much prefer my bugs and flowers too. Only started shooting people to make money to buy more gear. Don't really like shooting people.

ex girlfriend's sister asked me to do their corp shots too, based off my facebook stuff, which is really my playground of not so great photos. lol. They had a "pro" do their last ones...silly poses...busy backgrounds, blah blah.

I often wonder how folks get paid for crap.

Lot of new 6 month pro's out there... pretty amazing actually! But what can you do? I b1tch about it constantly, and it just gets me banned! lol!

ha. 6-month pros. good one.

 

[kundalini]

I'm afraid you just aren't grasping the discussion here, Robin. They're called fundamentals for a reason. Not to worry, you'll do just fine, I'm sure. You have progressed quite nicely over the years. More is ahead of you.

 

[Brandon Hill]

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i really did. i made popcorn for this.

either your wb is off or you don't have enough butter on the lower popcorn. I'd guess the latter. Butter evenly man.

that phone shot reveals the sweet buttery uneven light of my iMac.

 

[Derrel]

You guys are silly calling my portrait feminine tilt. There was no intention of tilting the head. Yeah sure his head is tilted a little. Perhaps i should have rotated the whole photo a little and it will be the exact same pose and you wont call it a feminine tilt. Yeah, I messed up leveling the eyes but I wouldnt call that a feminine tilt. My opinion.. whatever. If I do want to tilt the head, I tilt the head.

That's because it *is* a feminine head angle...feminine head tilt...feminine "POSE'. The portrait of Napoleon you posted--it is the EXACT, POLAR OPPOSITE of the one you posted. We are not being silly...me, Kundalini,and KmH have ALL very simply agreed that your example of a male corporate portrait violates a concept of masculine and feminine posing that goes back literally hundreds of years. The angle of the man's head in relation to his lead shoulder is what is called a feminine head tilt. Look it up. Please do not call us "silly" because we have studied posing and visual communication. As a "corporate portrait" of a heterosexual male, the sample you contributed shows fundamental disagreement with well-known posing methods for men, and for females.

Charlie's portraits are very "neutral"....and if I might say, rather boring...shoulders squared to the camera...not very dynamic in terms of body pose...very stiff-looking. But definitely not projecting a feminine subtext, as the original you provided sample did. The Napoleon portrait: see how there is a very slight tilt to his head, and it is toward the BACK shoulder...see how your man is tilting toward the front shoulder, in a coy, coquettish manner? He looks foppish.

That Napoleon portrait was done by a classically-trained painter, who was painting perhaps the most-powerful military man of the entire modern,post-Biblical era. It is the epitome of a "masculine pose". Apparently you're not understanding the visual language, and are failing to sense the "vibe" that a feminine head tilt gives.

 

[cgipson1]

Charlie's portraits are very "neutral"....and if I might say, rather boring...shoulders squared to the camera...not very dynamic in terms of body pose...very stiff-looking..

Yep... had each subject for just enough time to click the shutter five or six times... so kept it simple.

 

[kathyt]

You guys are silly calling my portrait feminine tilt. There was no intention of tilting the head. Yeah sure his head is tilted a little. Perhaps i should have rotated the whole photo a little and it will be the exact same pose and you wont call it a feminine tilt. Yeah, I messed up leveling the eyes but I wouldnt call that a feminine tilt. My opinion.. whatever. If I do want to tilt the head, I tilt the head.

Good lord! I liked your image. Was your client happy? Did you make money? If so, then great! Were these TPF members lead to believe your image was a female because of the "feminine tilt? If not, then who gives a sh*t how many pixels it's tilted one way or another!

 

[cgipson1]

Hey John... just close my friggin thread! Looks like NO ONE will let this crap go....

 

[tirediron]

Closed per OPs request.