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lordtris

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This was me trying my hand with a speedlite
Canon 70D 50mm 1.8 @ 1/200 f4.5 iso 100
speedlite @ 50mm 1/64
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Exposure seems pretty good maybe needs to come up a hair. Her camera strap is distracting because of how it is laying. And her hair is a little bit everywhere. Was she ready for this shot?
 
Exposure seems pretty good maybe needs to come up a hair. Her camera strap is distracting because of how it is laying. And her hair is a little bit everywhere. Was she ready for this shot?
No she asked me why i was using a flash on a bright sunny day so I showed her. ;)
 
I think the pathway or roadway behind her is distracting, and is overly bright, in comparison to the exposure level on her face. I think lightening her face up a bit, and using an adjustment brush to "paint over" some Minus Exposure on the pathway would make the shot look a bit better. This would have worked better as a "tall" shot made in-camera.

If you look at the lightest-toned thing in the picture, it is the pathway behind her. Light on her shoulder, goes right to the light pathway, and the pathway goes straight off in to the distance and then turns. Bwoooop! My eye direction starts on the shoulder, leaves her, and goes directly and repeatedly to the pathway...and...right out of the frame.

She has a nice overhead/sidelighting on the top of her head. A couple big steps to your left, and a rotation of the camera to a "tall" would have made a nice portrait of her, and eliminated that distracting pathway from the frame area the lens saw.

A "tall" orientation of the camera would have shown us less of her shoulders; this was shot made with her physically CLOSE to the camera, so....close-in perspective makes things look pretty big...her shoulders literally cross a full seven-eighths of the frame! Again...this is a woman, and she is 7/8 of the frame in width. She is wider than the pathway. That's not a flattering way to render a woman, square-on to the camera, and her shoulders spanning 7/8 of the whole frame.

I don't want to belabor this too much, but this photo is good example of shooting a portrait from 1) too close a distance and 2) in the wrong camera orientation (ie. "landscape" as opposed to "portrait"). This is a good shot to study and learn from.
 

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