Softball Portrait

[sscarmack]

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[imagemaker46]

It looks pretty good, nice expression, but the eyes look a little soft.

 

[Derrel]

It looks pretty good, nice expression, but the eyes look a little soft.

Yes, not much DOF at that degree of image magnification. No offense intended, but what are you doing shooting at ISO 200 with a D4 during daylight hours?

 

[sscarmack]

It looks pretty good, nice expression, but the eyes look a little soft.

I agree, I was actually focused on the mouth, I grabbed the shot pretty quick and wanted to grab that expression before it was gone. Otherwise I would of took the time to refocus, I was very pleased with the results though.

It looks pretty good, nice expression, but the eyes look a little soft.

Yes, not much DOF at that degree of image magnification. No offense intended, but what are you doing shooting at ISO 200 with a D4 during daylight hours?

Cloudy day
Shooting the action of the game (Faster shutter, 1/500. )
Wanted a little more depth (f5.6)
therefore the iso needed to come up a tad.

No offense taken. I appreciate the critique.

 

[sscarmack]

Heres a crop of the same photo

 

[The_Traveler]

the brightness of the shirt pulls attention from the face.

 

[sscarmack]

the brightness of the shirt pulls attention from the face.

Ahhhh yes, I could see that.

Thanks for the input.

 

[sscarmack]

It looks pretty good, nice expression, but the eyes look a little soft.

Yes, not much DOF at that degree of image magnification. No offense intended, but what are you doing shooting at ISO 200 with a D4 during daylight hours?

What should I be shooting at??? This has been on my mind all day, I'm not sure why.

 

[Tony S]

ISO 200 with a D4 during daylight hours?

I'd say you hit the exposure pretty good. Couldn't have been real bright out if your exposure was 1/500 @ f5.6. Sure you will blow the whites on the jersey in some spots on the shoulders, but the face is on the shadow side and getting the face and eyes right are what really counts on a shot like this.

How much of a crop from the original image shot is this? There really is not a spot in the image that appears sharper than the eyes (trim on the neckline and shoulder all looks about the same), so it looks a bit like softness from cropping in on a picture a bit. Or it's softer than you might expect from your workflow/sharpen process.

 

[sscarmack]

ISO 200 with a D4 during daylight hours?

I'd say you hit the exposure pretty good. Couldn't have been real bright out if your exposure was 1/500 @ f5.6. Sure you will blow the whites on the jersey in some spots on the shoulders, but the face is on the shadow side and getting the face and eyes right are what really counts on a shot like this.

How much of a crop from the original image shot is this? There really is not a spot in the image that appears sharper than the eyes (trim on the neckline and shoulder all looks about the same), so it looks a bit like softness from cropping in on a picture a bit. Or it's softer than you might expect from your workflow/sharpen process.

Thats what I was thinking. There is no crop on the original image. I also did not apply any sharpening. In fact the original was underexposed maybe 2-3 stops. So I would of had to bump the iso to maybe 800 if I wanted to expose for her face using the settings I wanted.

Below is straight out of camera. When taking this shot, I knew I wanted a black and white image, it just felt right.

She was in the shade by the dug out. And was a cloudy day but the sun was peaking through every now and then.

I was shooting the action on the field which was a lot brighter obviously (no shade from dug outs or trees) and turned around and had to take a photo.

Is the original great? No way. But I do like the black and white edit.

Here you go

 

[vintagesnaps]

It's a lovely portrait of her, it just looks like the camera exposed for where the light was hitting her from behind. Sometimes I aim my camera downward or in whatever direction will give me a meter reading and settings based on the shade, then reframe and focus, but the mixed sun and shade can be tricky I think. I find it can take some brightening or adjusting contrast etc.

 

[Tony S]

It seems to me like there is a bit more sharpness in the original file and the highlights on her shoulder are not quite as blown. Try to work on the shadows using curves or a fill light tool, leave the bright and mid tones as they are in the original. This should even some of the lighting difference some and I think you will retain some of the original sharpness in the image. Almost all images need some sort of sharpening done to them as the last step.


On a side note, I'm not sure what happened to the original image or why the comment is posted there now. I see no tearing down in the thread, only some comments trying to point out things that might make it a better image. This image has a good base to work with, especially considering the light you were shooting into for action before the shot and turning around to snag this one.