Sister and Her Boyfriend Session

[eravedesigns]

My parents suggested that I do a session with my sister and her boyfriend so I brought my gear with them to a spot in Southern California and snapped a couple off. Only thing I regret is getting some fill light in there...should have brought a flash.

I tried some various styles on the post process.

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

 

[tirediron]

I like the images, nice poses, good smiles, a few minor expsoure issues, but not fond of the treatments. I think these would be more effective in either colour or straight B&W (3,4 are rather over contrasty for my taste).

 

[butterflygirl]

They definitely seem a little dark to me - you are correct that some fill flash, or at least a reflector would have helped.

I love the last one though! I like the texture too - great pose, expression from her - beautiful!

 

[eravedesigns]

Thanks for the comments! I think the darkness issue is coming from my new laptop screen because when I viewed the photos again on my other lcd screen they did seem dark so I need to calibrate or just learn to adjust for my laptop screen.

I like my B&W to be high contrast just my thing... but the faces on #4 do seem too dark now that I look at them on the other screen.

Keep the comments coming haha.

 

[Lacey Anne]

I really like the texture you added.

 

[settons]

I love #5, how did you get the texture like that?

 

[eravedesigns]

The texture is a mix of a fabric brush and a grunge brush. I also did some post processing to get the colors more old skool looking and I then did some light erasing around focus points on the subjects.

 

[settons]

It looks straight out of a magazine ad.

Great work.

 

[eravedesigns]

It looks straight out of a magazine ad.

Great work.

Thanks

 

[kellylindseyphotography]

I personally feel the treatment to the pictures is too much. I imagine the couple would like some fresh, clean looks on some of these... Their faces are much underexposed in most of these unfortunetly.

 

[freelunch]

What a handsome couple! #4.

I'm not sure what you've done, or why, to #2 or #5.

 

[LuckyStarPhotography]

Pretty much what others have said repeated here.
A little dark which you knew. I love the poses, great job there.
I like the last one. They are a great looking couple and definitely great material if you are wanting to do some practice shoots and need beautiful models.
I'd love to see you reshoot them with adequate flash. I am sure it would be amazing.

 

[eravedesigns]

Seems like a large amount of people either love the treatment to #2 and #5 or they hate it. I suppose that is just the nature of giving photos extra treatment like that.

Kellylindseyphotography: I don't know how underexposed you think their faces are I personally don't think its that bad but they are like that because I was shooting with their back to the ocean during sunset (with no fill light) so the sun at sunset was silhouetting their bodies a bit and when I exposed entirley just for their faces I blew out the background almost completely...I prefer to keep the background at least some what visible compared to completely white.

 

[kellylindseyphotography]

Hey. well that is stating the obvious of course. That is when your knowledge that those things were unavoidable and to go with 1 of 2 choices. USe a fill flash or reflector. Or expose for the faces and then do magic in photoshop for the background (not preference of course, but I would take that before underexposing the subject). Underexposing the subject in an attempt to keep your background looking nice is not a proper choice. The only other alternative I see is making them complete silouttes.

 

[visualpoetry]

The smiles look natural.. I like that.