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- Thread starter Pekka Saarinen
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Nice pleasing pic.
I like her smile.
Eventhough we don't get to see her eyes, her face and posture tells us...
... she's enjoying what she is doing?
What metering mode were you using?
I like her smile.
Eventhough we don't get to see her eyes, her face and posture tells us...
... she's enjoying what she is doing?
What metering mode were you using?
Pekka Saarinen
Senior Member
Y
Yang
Guest
Nice picture! particularly the marked tele lens effect.
would like to know more about the technical details such as
focus length, aperture, etc
Thanks!
Yang
would like to know more about the technical details such as
focus length, aperture, etc
Thanks!
Yang
Fortuneately, there is a at least one that contributes to this forum with valuable pictures. OK, you are not alone but I think we have seen enough chairs, stairs and old bottles here.
Your G1 gallery is great!
HR
Your G1 gallery is great!
HR
Dentite
Well-known member
Pekka:
Although exposure good, the picture is missing some fundamental elements of what could have been a superb photograph. Show hands, show sharply focused eyes, and fill those shadows in the right spot. Also, for what she is wearing, I would choose a less clashing background cause in my opinion, the colors are distracting. Moreover, I would use a reflector/promax gold bounce to warm colors and fill shadows.
I would recommend you going to a bookstore and pick up a basic posing/outdoor portraiture book, or, Joe Zeldman can teach you a few things.. he is the father of modern portraiture:
http://www.zuga.net/freelessons/jzindex.asp
I have tried a lot of outdoor portraiture myself.. and in no way I consider my Portraits great. However Zeldman sure has taught me a whole bunch about composition and posing and I am very happy I took time to actually try to learn what he had to say. And I have discovered that outdoor portraiture is the hardest!! Here are my attempts:
http://Class2004.dentite.com
(Just a few funny looking characters from my dental class)
D30 is an awesome tool for portraiture.. especially if you have a 50 1.4 or 1.8. You made a good choice... have fun.
Cheers,
Dentite
Although exposure good, the picture is missing some fundamental elements of what could have been a superb photograph. Show hands, show sharply focused eyes, and fill those shadows in the right spot. Also, for what she is wearing, I would choose a less clashing background cause in my opinion, the colors are distracting. Moreover, I would use a reflector/promax gold bounce to warm colors and fill shadows.
I would recommend you going to a bookstore and pick up a basic posing/outdoor portraiture book, or, Joe Zeldman can teach you a few things.. he is the father of modern portraiture:
http://www.zuga.net/freelessons/jzindex.asp
I have tried a lot of outdoor portraiture myself.. and in no way I consider my Portraits great. However Zeldman sure has taught me a whole bunch about composition and posing and I am very happy I took time to actually try to learn what he had to say. And I have discovered that outdoor portraiture is the hardest!! Here are my attempts:
http://Class2004.dentite.com
(Just a few funny looking characters from my dental class)
D30 is an awesome tool for portraiture.. especially if you have a 50 1.4 or 1.8. You made a good choice... have fun.
Cheers,
Dentite
Dentite
Well-known member
Sorry I should have looked at your previous post before blabbring my mouth off about learning how to pose. I did not realize that you did not pose the models youreslf, and you simply happened to be at a fashion show. Ignore any of my comments regarding posing pointers.
Regards,
Dentite
Regards,
Dentite
http://www.zuga.net/freelessons/jzindex.asp
I have tried a lot of outdoor portraiture myself.. and in no way I
consider my Portraits great. However Zeldman sure has taught me a
whole bunch about composition and posing and I am very happy I took
time to actually try to learn what he had to say. And I have
discovered that outdoor portraiture is the hardest!! Here are my
attempts:
http://Class2004.dentite.com
(Just a few funny looking characters from my dental class)
D30 is an awesome tool for portraiture.. especially if you have a
50 1.4 or 1.8. You made a good choice... have fun.
Cheers,
Dentite
Pekka, is there anything you can't do? Lovely model, lovely light, lovely photo. :-D
Petra
Petra
Stepan Hluchan
Forum Enthusiast
wow...now you're talking ;-) Frances will appreciate this....
Beautiful shot, she has a great expression on her face... great colors too. What camera/settings?
(and her phone number? 
)
stepan
Beautiful shot, she has a great expression on her face... great colors too. What camera/settings?
(and her phone number? )stepan
Stepan Hluchan
Forum Enthusiast
Stepan Hluchan
Forum Enthusiast
damn me...I should have recognized your name seemed so familiar already..along with the quality-shot I should have remembered... visited your wonderful gallery a few weeks back...that's pretty much what really made me go and just buy my camera instead of waiting for.........whenever
Thanks for sharing all that.
stepan
seemed so familiar already..along with the quality-shot I should have remembered... visited your wonderful gallery a few weeks back...that's pretty much what really made me go and just buy my camera instead of waiting for.........whenever Thanks for sharing all that.
stepan
Stepan Hluchan
Forum Enthusiast
actually thanks for the links ;-) I liked your photos...many of the people you took shots of were actually quite photogenical. seems like a fun class
mbond
Forum Enthusiast
Very nice tonally (green, white of the dress, and flesh tones in harmony), a beautiful woman, a professionally nice posture.
However, the frame when taken (as far as I recall, you refuse to postprocess your images) was slanted, what results in the woman's figure tipping over.
The direction of her eyes should go down where her arm is pointing, and although the slant of the body is perfectly normal, she should look balanced on her right leg. A simple rotation plus cloning to fill in relusting gaps along the border is enough to correct.
mike
I did not do it very carefully, but here's the idea:
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However, the frame when taken (as far as I recall, you refuse to postprocess your images) was slanted, what results in the woman's figure tipping over.
The direction of her eyes should go down where her arm is pointing, and although the slant of the body is perfectly normal, she should look balanced on her right leg. A simple rotation plus cloning to fill in relusting gaps along the border is enough to correct.
mike
I did not do it very carefully, but here's the idea:
.
Pekka Saarinen
Senior Member
Mike,Very nice tonally (green, white of the dress, and flesh tones in
harmony), a beautiful woman, a professionally nice posture.
However, the frame when taken (as far as I recall, you refuse to
postprocess your images) was slanted, what results in the woman's
figure tipping over.
The direction of her eyes should go down where her arm is pointing,
and although the slant of the body is perfectly normal, she should
look balanced on her right leg. A simple rotation plus cloning to
fill in relusting gaps along the border is enough to correct.
mike
I did not do it very carefully, but here's the idea:
.
I sort of like the slanted feeling, adding dynamic movement to the photo, but of course your proposition would have been good, too. It was a really busy show and I did not have time to really think about all aspects - I shot how I felt.
Thanks,
Pekka
Pekka
Pekka Saarinen
Senior Member
Thanks Yang,
Canon D30, 70-200 f/2.8L lens at 200mm, 1/250 ISO 100 f/2.8 (levels upped a bit is PS), Subject distance: 5.12 meters, handheld.
Pekka
Pekka Saarinen
Senior Member
MN Randy
Veteran Member
Everyone posts pics here for his or her own reason. Some for fun, some because they feel they captured a great image, some for critiques. I enjoy all the images here because they ALL, I repeat ALL, help me to learn. Whether it is the image straight out of the camera or how to work in PS. It opens my mind to all the possibilities there are, things I would have never even given a second thought to. I don't look at anything the same anymore because of the pics posted here. There are so many different ways to look at everything.
It's kind of funny how you said you have seen enough chairs. Look back and you will see a "FANTASTIC" picture by Pekka. Guess what it was? It was a chair sitting in an attic!
Enjoying it all,
Randy
P.S. I have some wonderful pics of old blue mason jars, some on window sills and some in old abandened houses. In fact I took one tonight of some in an old house that has gone to ruins.
It's kind of funny how you said you have seen enough chairs. Look back and you will see a "FANTASTIC" picture by Pekka. Guess what it was? It was a chair sitting in an attic!
Enjoying it all,
Randy
P.S. I have some wonderful pics of old blue mason jars, some on window sills and some in old abandened houses. In fact I took one tonight of some in an old house that has gone to ruins.
sollentuna58
Active member
I don't agree with you. We dont see the hands & the eyes but this picture is still the one what has attracted the more attention. In my opinion, one reason is that it presents the perfect balance between what should be shown and what should to be suggested. It might be a cultural thing but I prefer sometimes not to see everything. It creates a little frustation but it also help the picture to remain printed in the back of my mind longer.
Yann
Yann
DarkFudge46339
Member
Dentite....stop being so damn anal and relax....the picture is fine. If one has to starting thinking and worrying about all the things that swims thru your mind before you take a shot then it no longer is fun.....just let it flow ....
http://www.zuga.net/freelessons/jzindex.asp
I have tried a lot of outdoor portraiture myself.. and in no way I
consider my Portraits great. However Zeldman sure has taught me a
whole bunch about composition and posing and I am very happy I took
time to actually try to learn what he had to say. And I have
discovered that outdoor portraiture is the hardest!! Here are my
attempts:
http://Class2004.dentite.com
(Just a few funny looking characters from my dental class)
D30 is an awesome tool for portraiture.. especially if you have a
50 1.4 or 1.8. You made a good choice... have fun.
Cheers,
Dentite
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