Few from my shoots

[jemmy]

brillliant composition holly, especially dad? and the 2 girls in the 1st series.. loving the angle and comp....some gorgeous little faces there too - did you get any closeups of them by themselves??
i agree with the colour/darkness comments above too and thought that Bowronfam3s edits looked excellent - WOW xx

Can i ask what mode and settings you used for the big group shot - they all look sharp and clear ~ i seem to suck at group shots!! any advice????

 

[lostprophet]

Holly, these are fantastic. Don't give up as you will just get better and better.

Love the shot of the Dad walking away with his 2 children and the edits are much better

well done

 

[Holly]

Jemmy I wish I could remember what my settings were.. I did so many pictures that weekend and I never keep the same lens or settings.. they always change.. I do kNOW that I used the 70-95mm lens though... Apeture was 4.5 I believe

 

[bogleric]

Could you explain a little of what you did to so quicky fix these images? I am trying to hone my pp skills and I am still much slower than you make it sound.

Hey Holly! First I want to say that I think you have a terrific eye for composition. But, I think that your coloring in these are way off. The second set seems very gray and lackluster, and the first set seem very dark. I know that you said that the woman was happy with the first set, but I thought I would show you an example of what could be done to improve these in literally less than a minute in post processing. Also, the second set seems to have a heavy green/blue cast to them. Hope you don't mind me posting these, but there's really no way to explain what I mean...it's just more helpful (I think) to show you.

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[bowronfam3]

Sure bogleric! I use Photoshop CS for all my pp and you can find a million free plugins and actions to use that really shorten the amount of time you have to spend in pp. One good website for downloading some great actions is:
www.atncentral.com

For the first photo I used the shadow/highlight tool, which you really have to play with and figure out what's the best settings for particular photo you're working with. It's very easy to wash a photo out or get bad pixelation with that tool. The other thing I do is to play with the Selective Color tool. It's great to bring back good color in a photo. In the last couple photos I used the hue/sat. tool to bring some color pop to them. And then I used the Photo Filter tool and played with the settings for the first warming filter. Now, I know that it all sounds like a lot to do, but once you know which tools will work better for the photo you're using, you'll be able to do it all in just a couple minutes.

I hope that helped!!

 

[ShootHoops]

I like the last one.

 

[HollandHusker]

#7 has something that makes me sad, I love it though