First photoshoot that doesn't involve a newborn. Feedback please!

PinkPoodle · Oct 20, 2015

So, I asked my friend if I could do a little shoot with her. Up until now I've only photographed my own family and newborns. Makeup done by me too~

My friend's daughter is a very spirited little thing. I had some trouble with her skin tone as she has different skin tones. Her face was significantly different from her arms, and even her hands were different. I "tinkered" with her in photoshop but everything I did looked bad so I just kind of left it. The little one wouldn't stay still for even a second, so unfortunately the best photos we could get of her is when mom is holding her.

I wish we could have had a reflector....

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This is one where the little girl's skin tone is so different. I can't seem to figure out how to even her out.

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One of the few pictures we could get this little one to be still for. I think it might be overexposed?? Cant figure out why the flower is so washed out. It is like that in the unedited photo as well.

4) I hate that her sweater is the same color as the path.

I'm sure theres a way to fix that in PS.

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to give me any feedback

SquarePeg · Oct 20, 2015

These are very nice. I like the way you captured them looking so natural and relaxed. That seems to be something that is difficult for many new photographers to get right. I don't know anything about post processing so can't help you on the skin tones or sweater.

jaomul · Oct 20, 2015

I like how natural they both look

MRnats · Oct 20, 2015

I don't know if it's my computer or if this is what you're going for but the whites are really blinding. I like the pics a lot overall though. Nice job.

tirediron · Oct 20, 2015

The images are nice, great expressions, but the highlights are WAY too hot.

sashbar · Oct 20, 2015

Agree with tirediron

Derrel · Oct 20, 2015

These look significantly overexposed to me. Luckily, pictures of pretty ladies and lasses is one of the very,very few subjects where this much overexposure does not just kill the pictures. I would try reducing the exposure in software, and if your software has a "recovery" tool, I would use that to hopefully recover some of the lost highlight detail.

JacaRanda · Oct 20, 2015

Very nice and worth any recovery efforts or PS magic. . What software do you have?

Sorry, I see you have PS.

Dillard · Oct 20, 2015

I agree, definitely blow out in a few places, but you can easily clean them up in post! They look very natural. Well done

PinkPoodle · Oct 20, 2015

SquarePeg said:
These are very nice. I like the way you captured them looking so natural and relaxed. That seems to be something that is difficult for many new photographers to get right. I don't know anything about post processing so can't help you on the skin tones or sweater.

Thank you so much!

PinkPoodle · Oct 20, 2015

tirediron said:
The images are nice, great expressions, but the highlights are WAY too hot.

Thank you! I am literally new to all of this. So should I just decrease the exposure in PS??

PinkPoodle · Oct 20, 2015

Derrel said:
These look significantly overexposed to me. Luckily, pictures of pretty ladies and lasses is one of the very,very few subjects where this much overexposure does not just kill the pictures. I would try reducing the exposure in software, and if your software has a "recovery" tool, I would use that to hopefully recover some of the lost highlight detail.

Thanks so much!! I still have all of the unedited photos saved so I can make the needed adjustments. I really appreciate your feedback~