Michelle

DanOstergren · Mar 3, 2015

A portrait I took last week of my friend's neighbor in their living room.

Captured in natural light mixed with a little bit of indoor tungsten lighting. You may not edit any of my photos.

EOS 5D MKI
135MM @ F/2
1/100th sec
ISO 800

runnah · Mar 3, 2015

I love this image!

Very emotional. I get a very depressed/sad vibe. Probably the blues.

kathyt · Mar 3, 2015

Stunning.

MRnats · Mar 4, 2015

Great work. I hope you have future shoots planned with her.

ronlane · Mar 4, 2015

Nicely done.

DanOstergren · Mar 4, 2015

MRnats said:
Great work. I hope you have future shoots planned with her.

We're already planning the next shoot.

DanOstergren · Mar 4, 2015

runnah said:
I love this image!

Very emotional. I get a very depressed/sad vibe. Probably the blues.

kathyt said:
Stunning.

ronlane said:
Nicely done.

Thank you.

DarkShadow · Mar 4, 2015

Very Nice Dan.Love the side profile,the reflection off the glass is a nice touch.Very emotional feel to it. She is a very pretty young lady.Nothing about this shot looks staged and just looks so natural.

Forkie · Mar 4, 2015

Designer · Mar 4, 2015

The reflection is distracting.

elizpage · Mar 4, 2015

Ah, very nice! I love the reflection, I just took a look at some of your other work. Really marvelous stuff

runnah · Mar 4, 2015

Nominated!

waday · Mar 4, 2015

I love this. :586:

Your work is always an inspiration. :smile:

DanOstergren · Mar 4, 2015

Designer said:
The reflection is distracting.

Good, I'm glad I could distract you for a moment.

JerryVenz · Mar 4, 2015

Nice job on seeing and using the light!

Since this type of portraiture is one of my specialties I offer these refinements:

She has an eyelash coming out of her nose--a no-no in portraiture!
We want either full profile or bring her nose back towards the camera to reveal her far eye. I got killed for this in professional, international, print competition many years ago!

The background is overly complicated--too many right-angles and hard edges
that don't mix with photography of a woman.
To avoid this I usually shoot down-camera parallel to-the window. I don't like my light source to be in the portrait. Same reason we don't show the soft-box when we do portraits in the studio.

Kudos, though, for using SHORT LIGHTING--my favorite! Hardly any photographers these days ( professional or otherwise ) use dramatic, directional, lighting!

Jerry W. Venz M.Photog.,Cr. CPP