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I had to opportunity last night to shoot a beautiful high school student in her two prom dresses. I would love your thoughts and critiques.

I made a quick online gallery using Aperture and uploaded it to my web site. The photos are here - http://www.mcclellandesigns.com/gallery/index.html

All photos were taken with my D70 and either the Sigma 70-200 2.8 HSM or the Nikon 50mm 1.8 with SB600 for fill. Shot in RAW and processed with Adobe Lightroom Beta 2 with some extra touches in Photoshop CS2 on some.

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Very good job. Well done lighting, and good poses.
Matt Mc said:
I had to opportunity last night to shoot a beautiful high school
student in her two prom dresses. I would love your thoughts and
critiques.

I made a quick online gallery using Aperture and uploaded it to my
web site. The photos are here -
http://www.mcclellandesigns.com/gallery/index.html

All photos were taken with my D70 and either the Sigma 70-200 2.8
HSM or the Nikon 50mm 1.8 with SB600 for fill. Shot in RAW and
processed with Adobe Lightroom Beta 2 with some extra touches in
Photoshop CS2 on some.

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Matt Mc
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I just purchased this lens and waiting for it in the mail. These pictures are VERY inspiring. You had a very beautiful subject and a great eye for poses. Praises all around!
 
Fantastic shots! Very well done.

The only thing I noticed while looking through them quickly is in 25, 27 and 28, only one eye is in focus. This is a minor thing and maybe it's on purpose, but to me it is distracting. I realize that to go with a smaller aperature you would lose some foreground/background separation. In 27 it looks like even the very far left part of the eyelashes are in sharp focus, so maybe what you could do next time is to focus on the left eye, but then manually override the focus just a smidge so the "absolute" focal point is closer to the inner part of the eye or maybe right on the bridge of the nose. This would help get both eyes in focus, even if at the outer edges of each eye it is not quite in focus.

Did that make any sense?

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All you have to do is use a smaller aperture to get both eyes in focus. I am pretty sure almost all of these shots were taken at f2.8.
bossturbo said:
Fantastic shots! Very well done.

The only thing I noticed while looking through them quickly is in
25, 27 and 28, only one eye is in focus. This is a minor thing and
maybe it's on purpose, but to me it is distracting. I realize that
to go with a smaller aperature you would lose some
foreground/background separation. In 27 it looks like even the
very far left part of the eyelashes are in sharp focus, so maybe
what you could do next time is to focus on the left eye, but then
manually override the focus just a smidge so the "absolute" focal
point is closer to the inner part of the eye or maybe right on the
bridge of the nose. This would help get both eyes in focus, even
if at the outer edges of each eye it is not quite in focus.

Did that make any sense?

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-brian
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'87.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot'

ShutterBugin
http://www.exposureproductions.smugmug.com

 
DANG!! Honestly, I never noticed it when I was processing them. Those are my favorites too. I'm hoping some of what you are seeing online is from the jpeg compression for the web. I'll have to check my RAW files when I get home.

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Matt Mc
 
TWO Prom Dresses? Wow, isn't one enough these days??!!??

Honestly, you did great with these. I love that little 50/1.8 as well. The speedlights make it so much easier with these cameras! Your lighting was spot on.

Someone recently asked if 6 MP was enough ... if we are seeing this detail in your shots to notice eyelashes and leg blimishes, then I think we have the answer to that question.

Michael

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for composition, exposure and expression, I like #5, #24 and #27

The ones with the spread out skirt look corny.

You definitely got some good shots there that can be printed for nice portraits.
 
...nice composition, subject looks relaxed and comfortable, and more importantly she looks natural. That one really stands out. The rest are nice, but I'd have to agree to remove the imperfections on her legs. You don't tell a woman she has "blemishes", they're "imperfections". ;-)

ryanm
 
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Someone recently asked if 6 MP was enough ... if we are seeing this
detail in your shots to notice eyelashes and leg blimishes, then I
think we have the answer to that question.

Michael
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6MP is way much for online use: the ideal would be 1-2MP to provide lower noise with larger pixel wells since this is the mazimum resolution the images can be displayed on a monitor.

For prints, 6MP is good for very big sizes. I will never, ever use such sizes so more megapixels is just more noise and more space on my memory cards.
 
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