Some family portraits

[JuhJuicy]

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[Sweetneers]

To me, these look over processed.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Holy watermark batman.

 

[janineh]

Holy watermark batman.

Yep!

 

[Light Guru]

Holy watermark batman.

Yep!

Double Yep!!

 

[Derrel]

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Wow, such a pretty lady!!! Buuuuuut, as others have said here, and as was mentioned in your prior picture post, this watermark is simply over the top. It is without a doubt, the gaudiest, most gauche one I have ever witnessed. It's so over the top it almost seems farcical.

 

[Light Guru]

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Wow, such a pretty lady!!! Buuuuuut, as others have said here, and as was mentioned in your prior picture post, this watermark is simply over the top. It is without a doubt, the gaudiest, most gauche one I have ever witnessed. It's so over the top it almost seems farcical.

Its so big and over the top that it becomes the subject of the images instead of the people.

 

[JuhJuicy]

Unmarked and unfiltered.

 

[kathyt]

Ahhh, much better.
#1. I would first straighten it up a bit. I like your pose here but I would have brought her left hand and had her put it on her leg just so it isn't lost.
Your white balance is off on all of these. This is usually a good place to start, because that will lead you to a nice starting place with your skin tones. #1, #2, #4 look underexposed.
The use of a reflector would have been your best friend in this shoot to get some fill light and to add some catch lights in your subjects eyes.
#4. If you look at this image you can see the light is uneven because of the harsh line going through the middle persons head. If you just reposition to where the sun is behind them and then use a reflector (or flash) to bounce light back to fill in their faces the result would have been really nice.

 

[manaheim]

Ahhh, much better.
#1. I would first straighten it up a bit. I like your pose here but I would have brought her left hand and had her put it on her leg just so it isn't lost.
Your white balance is off on all of these. This is usually a good place to start, because that will lead you to a nice starting place with your skin tones. #1, #2, #4 look underexposed.
The use of a reflector would have been your best friend in this shoot to get some fill light and to add some catch lights in your subjects eyes.
#4. If you look at this image you can see the light is uneven because of the harsh line going through the middle persons head. If you just reposition to where the sun is behind them and then use a reflector (or flash) to bounce light back to fill in their faces the result would have been really nice.

Yup. This. End thread.

 

[MLeeK]

The un-watermarked, un-over edited versions are so much better!!!
1. The choice to shoot in portrait was a good one, but should have included all of the door and room for the inevitable crop factor in print. Her foot falls to close to the frame and the entire ledge she is sitting on should have been included. The lens distortion on the door needs to be fixed, It's curing to our right as it goes up. Exposure, focus and color look good.
2. Again color, exposure and focus look good. The composition is hurting a lot from including the brick wall instead of only the door or the door and both edges of the wall. It's unbalanced. It looks like you've used the clarity slider on the girl to our right. At this size it could just be over sharpening for the size.
3. Has a lot of distractions going on. Clone out that line in the brick that is swinging down at the girl on our right. When you shout this you would have benefitted MUCH from moving your subjects farther from the backdrop and using a shallower DOF to detract from some of those distractions going on behind them. There isn't a lot there, but what is there is very distracting because it's in focus.
4. Needs some major fill light. I am guessing you had some problems with the green reflecting on their skin because this one is really warm compared to the others.

 

[The_Traveler]

you would get better and more useful advice if you allow editing.

 

[amolitor]

What you've done with them isn't bad, overall. They look a little overprocessed, to be sure, but that's easily fixed.

I don't know if you're using canned actions or if you're doing this yourself, but the desaturated high-contrast-midtones, desaturated, is a popular fashion look these days. You're going warm toned where fashion usually goes cold toned with this. The main thing is that you're doing a highly recognizable stylistic thing here, which is likely to make the customer think of fashion photos -- this is good marketing. It's not a look I am in love with myself, but that is a matter of taste.

I would back off the processing a touch, apply various effects less strongly, and call it good. The backgrounds and so forth are pretty good and pretty well handled. Others have raised some points on posing that are worth making note of, but generally I think the "straighten this" and "move her hand there" are fairly minor quibbles. Yes, the watermark is kind of big, but people on TPF just love to complain about watermarks, so you can pretty much ignore that part.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Yes, the watermark is kind of big, but people on TPF just love to complain about watermarks, so you can pretty much ignore that part.

The watermarks presented here carry equal or greater visual weight than the subjects. That's nothing to dismiss as a common pet peeve of TPF.

There's pretty good reason that people on TPF complain about watermarking: because 99% of the time, it's terribly, awfully, horrendously, unequivocally bad.

 

[amolitor]

Yes, the watermark is kind of big, but people on TPF just love to complain about watermarks, so you can pretty much ignore that part.

The watermarks presented here carry equal or greater visual weight than the subjects. That's nothing to dismiss as a common pet peeve of TPF.

There's pretty good reason that people on TPF complain about watermarking: because 99% of the time, it's terribly, awfully, horrendously, unequivocally bad.

I acknowledge your point, but will stand by my position if that's ok with you.