First "pro" shoot today.

[Robin Usagani]

These turned out much,much better than I expected!

+1.
Seriously.. this is like gazillion times better than your self family portrait with the bird poop. Nice job.

 

[jwbryson1]

These turned out much,much better than I expected!

+1.
Seriously.. this is like gazillion times better than your self family portrait with the bird poop. Nice job.

Thanks. I was happy with these. The family portraits were a real "rush" job in freeeezzzzzing cold weather with a bitter wind, with my mother in law 2 days before she was admitted to an Alzheimer's clinic and after a long day of cooking and socializing. I thought they were not great, but I wasn't "all in" at the time I took them.

Thanks for looking.

 

[jwbryson1]

all are nice but 1st one have intense light

Yeah, I blew out the details on their skin a bit. Lesson learned. Thanks for the post!

 

[unpopular]

This kid is AWESOME!

 

[kundalini]

This kid is AWESOME!

This kid has no lower legs. My only crit of the lot is to crop this one a bit tighter so that he doesn't appear to have stumps. Lighting ratio on the mask is nice on this one. We'll overlook the banner (Xmas thing on the tree) going through his head.

 

[jwbryson1]

We'll overlook the banner (Xmas thing on the tree) going through his head.

Kind of the Steve Martin arrow through head thing from the 70's.

If I crop it any tighter, I will chop off his hands unless I barely crop it.

 

[chunx]

These are beautiful! I especially love the first one with the 3 kids.

 

[kundalini]

Kind of the Steve Martin arrow through head thing from the 70's.

If I crop it any tighter, I will chop off his hands unless I barely crop it.

That always cracked me up.


I wouldn't hesitate to lose his hands due to the pose. Try somewhere between his wrist and elbows.

 

[unpopular]

Lets just hope nobody at 4chan gets a hold of this image, otherwise he will become a meme for sure.

 

[jwbryson1]

Lets just hope nobody at 4chan gets a hold of this image, otherwise he will become a meme for sure.

Please "splain"---I don't get the reference....

 

[unpopular]

lol. Where is Tevo?

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A meme is a device used to carry out cultural ideas, with the internet memes are created very quickly and spread very rapidly. This could be a meme because his expression is so classically "witlessly excited for santa".

4chan is a website that is known as being a "meme factory".

 

[jwbryson1]

To close the loop on this thread--you're gonna LOVE this! I got a call from the dad wanting the "other photos" so they can "pick out the best expressions." I said, sure, but I've already picked out the best photos of the bunch (total pics about 50). I spent about 2 hours in LR3 getting them perfect and then sending them out.

Well, lo and behold--they used another shot that had not been processed! Shot straight to JPEG with no edits at all. So, how valuable was my post processing time to them? That's right---meaningless.

Please fill in the following blank: The lesson I learned here today is: _________________________________________.

Unreal. Glad I don't do this for a living. This kind of thing would annoy the $hite out of me. :er:

 

[Crollo]

You get that kind of crap in any job where you have to work with the general public, it's just an unavoidable beast.
That being said I don't think it's entirely fair for you to react the way you are, I understand you must've worked hard to get the images you did and PP them, but they are the parents of their own kids and so different images will have vastly different effects for them. Just because a shot has no pp doesn't mean it can't bar emotional value for them.

 

[jwbryson1]

You get that kind of crap in any job where you have to work with the general public, it's just an unavoidable beast.
That being said I don't think it's entirely fair for you to react the way you are, I understand you must've worked hard to get the images you did and PP them, but they are the parents of their own kids and so different images will have vastly different effects for them. Just because a shot has no pp doesn't mean it can't bar emotional value for them.

Not disagreeing with that at all. What frustrates me is that (i) my images are being put in X-mas cards and sent around to the whole neighborhood with a note that I am the one who took the photo and (ii) I spent time on images that was unnecessary, and my time would have been better spent processing the photos that they ultimately used.

I'd rather have my name associated with processed images than SOOC JPEGs.

Maybe I'm wrong. I dunno. The 2 hours I spent processing their pics could have been better spent taking pics of my own kids.

 

[thereyougo!]

The lesson is don't show them anything you wouldn't want to send out! They were quite unhelpful both wearing white shirts too! Must have made lighting even more helpful. (joking here) with friends like these...