Couples Session: Scott and Sarah

[Dillard]

The only negative that truly stands out to me is #11

The light at the end of the tunnel is VERY distracting directly beside the girls face

 

[jwbryson1]

I can't wait for them to load. I'm at work and they've been loading for 2 minutes and counting... and we have a fast line. Sorry.

 

[OrionsByte]

Nice work... #13 - $$$

The only negative that truly stands out to me is #11

The light at the end of the tunnel is VERY distracting directly beside the girls face

I agree with both of these comments. I like 13 a lot better than 14... there's more character to it - it's not just a silhouette floating in the middle of nowhere, and I think the portrait orientation really works for it as well. I'm a big fan of that one!

 

[Markw]

Thank you all for the kind words, and suiting critiques!

One thing that I was really shocked at, and that really stood out to me was how well a 70-200/2.8 would be for portrait work on an FX body. I used my 50/1.8 for some of these, my 80-200 for some, and my 35/1.8 for some. I was shocked at seeing how effective a zoom that covers the 50-150 range on a DX camera would be for portrait sessions, and how suited the 70-200 on an FX camera would be for the same type of shooting, respectively. I finally understand why it's such a popular lens for portraits with FX cameras. Besides that, the extra background blur with the FX camera would have been greatly appreciated with some of my shots as well. It was like an epiphany for me. . Maybe I'll consider Sigma's 50-150/2.8 OS after all (If the D800(x,h,etc) isn't 36MP as rumored).

Mark

 

[Granddad]

It's not the age of the computer, it's the connection. If you live in a city or have cable, chances are you'll have a good connection. If you live in a rural area (like me) several miles from the broadband hub (or whatever it's called) your connection is going to be slow sometimes, especially when everyone gets home from school/work and goes online.

Some nice photos - the first two scared me. I don't think I'd want to be involved in taking photos of a girl perched on the rail of bridge 100 feet above a river. Whether she asked for it or not would make no difference. As an old fart (who has done accident and coroners investigations in the dim and distant past) I see too much potential for things to go tragically wrong... any potential is too much potential.