Portraits
 

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good stuff!

the 2nd girl is cute, kelly clarkson-ish ;)

Last one is perfect.

All you need now is a beauty dish or ring light :D

thanks. i just got a beauty dish. waiting to use it!

1) great shot, great dof, great color, love everything but the thumb but thats an easy crop fix
2) throw away, the focus is a few inches to far back as you can see by the hair
3) favorite of the bunch, the hair over her eye bugs me a little, but not enough that I don't still love it, lighting looks very nice and soft, care to explain the set-up?

to me it seems a little too much on the face... kinda blown out

sooooo is this the new portrait thread? :)

Are you shooting through a soft box?

yes, the setup is softbox as mainlight to camera left. and umbrella to the left of the subjects. shot with profoto 600 at 1/4 power.

seems fine on my screen. =)

Looks nice I really like the 3rd shot.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2393/...8f9bb7b848.jpg

this is the lighting setup.
also the 2nd pic, i cropped that out of another picture which the other one is more in focus. i guess i just liked the mood in that one.

Good choice going for the more interesting picture than the sharper one. The focus isn't that far off and non-photographers probably won't notice it.

the last picture u posted up... just wondering...
what is the point of the light on their left? that main light will only light up the girl closest to the light and leave the girl on the right atleast 1 stop down, and of course shadows casted by the girls closer to the light

i think for that group shot u'd be better off with that main light on the right of the camera instead

i had another light, but it wasn't the same power as the one on their left so i just left it.
i will keep that in mind for my next shoot

btw ur setup looks pretty cool, is this your garage?

nice job G.

-ed

Well, here's my first attempt at a portrait ever, and it started out as a pretty crappy self-portrait; hence all the processing. No lighting rig (man, they look pretty though ;)), hell, even my tripod was busted! :( Being poor sucks.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ter1/1-1-6.jpg

pretty much. its pretty quick to disassemble. can't wait to move to an actual studio!

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/...669117f0_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3158/...6494bcd6_b.jpg

beauty dish w/ diffuser as key/ camera left
softbox camera right
reflector camera left

Wow these ones are MUCH better lit that than the first ones! Good job :)

beauty dish is AWESOME!
next i want to do a better job with the background.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/onnong/SFddr2E4...jpg?imgmax=512http://lh5.ggpht.com/onnong/SFnOOTky...jpg?imgmax=512

i posted the first one before on the other thread but i meant to post it here in reply to the self-portrait up top ^^

the 2nd ones just for fun =)

Yeah I noticed that it made a world of difference for you.

So, what's her number? :P