Portrait for friends daughter's portfolio

[xj0hnx]

C&C?

 

[yahgiggle]

for me she looks too red and also cold so here's my edit



Turn down the red that made her look even more sick so added some warming filter (85) set to 25%

did some more work to bring back that red hair and white in her top

 

[Braineack]

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C&C?

Her facial expression is really not flattering. I suppose when you view it full sized it looks a bit better, but she's coming across more disgusted than inviting.

Beyond that, the lighting looks pretty flat so it's really washing out any features in her face/chest. Was this on camera flash? or a bare flash just to camera right?

I also think you went way too far with smoothing in post (looks like a layer of gaussian blur), and pushed the contrast and saturation a bit too far.

The black band/belt coupled with the black bg, makes her upper torso appear to be floating in midair and the white/black pattern of the dress draws my attention there over her face. On that note, the dress isn't anything special, so no reason to be so loose with the crop. She has pretty eyes, maybe do something to draw more focus there?

And does she dye her hair? Her roots look natural, brown, and healthy, where the tips look damaged, lifeless, and orange.

I really wouldn't want to put this in my portfolio (because I'm not a woman so that'd be a little odd). I would honestly try to reshoot this.

 

[Designer]

Someone should tell her that this is going to be for her portfolio. What Braineack said. She needs a different expression/pose.

Also, get the camera down a little. This shot seems like we're looking down onto the model.

Also, place your watermark in the lower left corner if it has to be somewhere.

Lighting is very good!

 

[tirediron]

What kind of portfolio?

As mentioned, the camera angle is too high, her expression is inappropriate, and the lighting seems odd. I'm also not fond of the cropped elbow and the skin seems rather over-processsed. Additionally, keep the lightsin your studio brighter so that the subject's pupils don't dilate so much.

 

[xj0hnx]

The flash was off camera, a little high and right, reflectors on either side. I was kind of hesitant because of the expression, but it was one of the better ones from that shoot. We actually are shooting again, I convinced them we need to do the full lengths again, but outside, in the sun, and with something decent in the background. I agree too about her hair, and it's one of the reasons I went a little heavy on the smoothing, it got her hair under control some. I didn't warm it up because she is pale, not sickly by any means, but she doesn't seem to do sun very often.

This one I like a WHOLE lot better, didn't attack it as bad in post (actually, I didn't do any post besides adding the watermark and cropping, everything else was done in ACR), BUT I missed the damn focus, and the 85mm's insane CA is showing hard on her sleeve, but mainly I missed focus. Going blind sucks But her color, and expression are better



Tirediron, she has ambitions of being a model, but she is young still. She has a surprising range of expression though, and is definitely not camera shy in the least. I am trying to get my foot in the door at a local modeling agency, if I do that, maybe I can help her, and them. My "studio" is pretty dark, I don't usually shoot people in there, so I had to work to get it to work as well as it did.

 

[tirediron]

WOW! I thought that the CA was part of the design of the top 'til I looked at the rest of it. That is crazy!!! Unfortunately on that image you missed the focus. Bin it.

 

[Designer]

My "studio" is pretty dark, I don't usually shoot people in there,

I was under the impression that extra light is a problem.

Whenever I attempt portraiture in my home, I usually have to blanket and/or cardboard the windows.

 

[tirediron]

My "studio" is pretty dark, I don't usually shoot people in there,

I was under the impression that extra light is a problem.

Whenever I attempt portraiture in my home, I usually have to blanket and/or cardboard the windows.

It shouldn't be; perhaps your strobes aren't putting out enough power?

 

[Braineack]

If you're shooting at something like f/11 at 1/160, you're not capturing much if any ambient. There's no reason you can't capture a completely dark background in a brightly lit room.

 

[Designer]

Right. Operator error.

Noobie, noobie, noob Do-Wop-she-bop-aloola! :blush2: