Out of My Element

drgibson · Mar 22, 2007

I don't normaly do studio or portrait work but our church had a Valitines event and wanted me to shoot some photos. So I put together a backdrop and some lighting and shot away. Here are some of the better ones. Tell me what you think.

#1 Carrying your friends

#2 A Dad and His daughters (yeah I live in fear of my life)

#3 Doesn't know how to take a bad picture.

#4 One mans pleasure is another mans...

Olympus8MP · Mar 22, 2007

#4 is great. #3 looks good too

JimmyJaceyMom · Mar 23, 2007

How cute. I love them. I see that it's ok to edit your photos so I played around with them a little.

I loved this picture cause it's funny so I just took out the heart lights that looked like they were coming out of the top of his head.

Also I REALLY like the happy looks on the girls' faces and I thought this crop might draw more attention to that. I see why you like it the other way cause it's fun that they were holding eachother up but it kept distacting me, but then, that may be just me.

And again I just cropped out some of the other stuff because I think the middle was the most interesting. I love his look! Too bad you can't see the girl on the left's face a bit more. GOOD JOB :thumbup:

hamburger · Mar 23, 2007

Well, this is certainly far from professional portrait photography - which just adds to the charm! I'm sure there'd been a lot less fun involved (both in taking the shots and viewing them) if this had been "real" studio shots! :wink:

Wouldn't life be terribly dull if we didn't stray from our beaten path every now and then? I think you did really well but the work JimmyJayceyMom did on #2 was a good idea. As for the other ones - can't really decide whether I like the cropped or the uncropped versions better...