Photos of my pregnant sista..:) How did I do..:)

[Surfsquish]

Sanitos


Feedback and Critque welcome. It's a never ending learning process..

 

[pgriz]

Well, I'm asking myself whether the pictures are of your sister, or whether you've got pictures of places you visited and your sister happened to be in the picture. In general, once you've picked your "subject", you don't want the background/foreground to be competing for our attention. It's fine if it is blurred, or minimized. It's not so good when it's as clear as the subject, and is brighter or more detailed than the subject. On the other hand, if you intended these as a record of your sister being at various places, then they're fine.

 

[Surfsquish]

Thank you very much. Goal of the photoshoot is to take memories of my sister who is pregnant and she happens to be visiting Florida also and share with family members. But you are correct, I should enphasize more in the subject but the background was really pretty not to take advantage of...

 

[pgriz]

Thank you very much. Goal of the photoshoot is to take memories of my sister who is pregnant and she happens to be visiting Florida also and share with family members. But you are correct, I should enphasize more in the subject but the background was really pretty not to take advantage of...

And that's fine. What you need to do is to use a wide-enough aperture to keep your sister sharp, and blur enough of the background to give the context, but not compete with her. Another technique is to a supporting element in the same plane as her, but in a way that keeps the attention on your sister (lower in the frame, or closer to the edge, or darker... there's a bunch of ways to do this).

 

[Surfsquish]

Thank you very much. I think mistake I did was when I used a wider apperture, it made picture very bright at a F4 stop. I should have just increased the shutter speed to compensate instead of putting the F stop to 9 or 10. I'm using a wide angle zoom lens which is really not the right one for this shoot. I need more funds to Buy big lenses... I used to have a bigger lens and it really blur the background..

 

[tirediron]

Excellent points raised above! I'll also add that some of your technical side is lacking somewhat; many of the images need to be leveled, have WB corrected, and saturation reduced, but these are all easily fixable in the pixelroom. Overall, not a bad set.