My first senior..

[TamiAz]

My friend needed some pictures for her son's graduation announcements so I happily agreed to do them for her.. I thought they turned out pretty good.

 

[tirediron]

Well, at least you didn't forget the mandatory brick-wall background! Not bad overall, but his face seems a trifle hot; looking at the image, were you by any chance exposing or weighting exposure for the black shirt?

 

[TamiAz]

Well, at least you didn't forget the mandatory brick-wall background! Not bad overall, but his face seems a trifle hot; looking at the image, were you by any chance exposing or weighting exposure for the black shirt?

Thanks for the feedback! I happen to like bricks walls. Do you have a problem with that?? layball: Hmmmmm...I spot metered on his skin and I checked my luminance numbers in Photoshop to make sure I didn't blow anything out on his skin.

 

[cgipson1]

Like John said... definitely too bright on the face... although with the small collage, it is hard to see enough detail to say much more than that.

 

[pixmedic1]

agree with the hot spots on the face and hands. Im not so much against brick walls, but you might have found one a little better looking. the brick wall on the left shot is pretty ugly.
I like the red wall with the boots, but you have to be so far back to get both boots in the frame that you really lose the subject, which should be the person.
maybe try closer in with just one boot on the side.

Focus and white balance look good. Color looks good.

 

[tirediron]

Well, at least you didn't forget the mandatory brick-wall background! Not bad overall, but his face seems a trifle hot; looking at the image, were you by any chance exposing or weighting exposure for the black shirt?

Thanks for the feedback! I happen to like bricks walls. Do you have a problem with that?? layball: Hmmmmm...I spot metered on his skin and I checked my luminance numbers in Photoshop to make sure I didn't blow anything out on his skin.

Ruh-roh.... :er:

Don't forget that just because something isn't blown, doesn't mean it isn't too 'hot'. For this sort of stuff, I really prefer an incident meter-reading as opposed to a reflected one.

 

[KmH]

I don't find anything to hot, but I do think the images come up way short on contrast and in none of them is the senior separated from the background.

Click on the "Look Inside" option for these books and look at the images they made. The more compelling and interesting images are the ones that have separated the senior from the background, both physically and artistically (shallow DoF):
The Art and Business of High School Senior Portrait Photography
500 Poses for Photographing High School Seniors: A Visual Sourcebook for Digital Portrait Photographers