First photos with backdrop, opinions please?

[caseysrt]

What did I do right? What did I do wrong? How can I do better next time?

 

[Austin Greene]

Maybe put a bit more light on your subject. Sure the backdrop is nice and bright, but the little lady is quite underexposed.

 

[Tony S]

The backdrop is lit so brightly lit that the light spills over onto and washes out the edges of the little girl. Her face and the whole side facing you has ended up underexposed, so underexposed that I'm guessing you had to brighten it quite a bit in post processing that it has caused the skin tones to look unnatural. So expose for the subject, and adjust your lighting on the backdrop to just take it to white.

If you explain your scene and lighting set up it will be easier to give help. Did you use flash or is that backdrop blown out by some other light source?

 

[Frequency]

well posed...well framed.... fine colors.... I can't say anything more

Regards

 

[caseysrt]

Thanks guys, I just now saw that more people posted a reply. I have a newer one for you to review. Here was the setup.

I used no flash for this at all, it was all natural light (outdoors) with the sun shining through the back of the backdrop and the subject in front, I set my camera to spot meter so it would expose for the subject which would blow out the backdrop.

Used a D3100 with a Nikon 50 1.8G and a white backdrop for this one.

 

[Forkie]

Holy headlights Batman! Those teeth are positively radioactive!

Same issue as the previous ones - the background is far too broght, or you need to put more light on the subject.