Couple Shots C&C please

kaylahunsader · Mar 29, 2011

Here are a few couple shots I took a while back. I have to do engagment shots coming up soon! Any feedback on these and ideas on couple shots would be great!

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Trever1t · Mar 29, 2011

not too shabby.

#1 you framed it cutting off fingers and intersecting joints. Needs a crop.
#2 is fun! Maybe crop in just a little too much dead space outside subject.
#3 best of the lot. Well done.
#4,5,6 and 7 are just ok.

Ashes · Mar 30, 2011

#3 is my fave...#1 you cut off fingers (like pp said), but also the couple does not "pop" from the picture. Nice location!

adarlingshot · Mar 30, 2011

Love the piggy back; what trever said and the 1st pic would be better if the offset was to the left rather than the right as it is now.. I am sure you were cropping to leave the stream in the background, but lose it the crop will be much more pleasing

) just being nit picky

otherwise very nice job and magical location!

bazooka · Mar 30, 2011

#3 ftw if you do a tighter portrait crop.

Watch out for the 'neck scrunchy' on the girl on #2. This can happen if the subject looks down toward their body, such as when in a reclining position.

Actually, looking over the images again as a whole, I think I'd like them a lot better if they were tighter crops. I feel like I'm seeing too much background. Overall pretty nice though. The light is nice.

Smitty91 · Mar 30, 2011

bazooka said:
Watch out for the 'neck scrunchy' on the girl on #2. This can happen if the subject looks down toward their body, such as when in a reclining position.

You may be able to prevent this by having the subject push their head forward while maintaining a "natural" look.

I agree with other comments in PP's.

kaylahunsader · Mar 30, 2011

actually, I did notice that and ask her to push her chin out. It worked and I meant to post that photo, but I posted this one instead on accident. Maybe I'll go back and post the other one.

kaylahunsader · Mar 30, 2011

Thanks for the reply. I will go back and crop them some more. I am always a little nervous to crop too much tho b/c I did that once and when they were printed the crop was to tight and it cut off heads and stuff lol, but I agree they need croping more. The light that day was nice, it was an overcast day!

kaylahunsader · Mar 30, 2011

Thanks for the reply. What would you recommend to get the couple to "pop" from the picture?

bazooka · Mar 30, 2011

I wouldn't necassarily recommend digitally cropping them, but just shooting tighter. Of course, what's done is done so you have to make the decision on whether you can crop more or not.

As for getting them to pop, the best way is to add your own light and underexpose the ambient a bit. As for processing, depending on your skill, you could *slightly* desaturate the background. It's very easy to go too far with any kind of processing though.