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bluestreakrem
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Get hood on that lens to stop the flare.
That looks like photoshop lens flare to me.
Roy Sletcher
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Black diagonal blob lower right major issue. hard to suggest a crop to remove or mitigate its effect.
IMHO lots of potential, but somehow missed the boat.
Probably better than anything I could do on similar situation
RS
SelSol
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Ten points to that man there! Its an intentional photo shopped flare, and if I could have tailored my shooting times it would have been a real one. But sadly I have schedules to keep and bills to pay!
SelSol
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The blobs are intentional, kind of.......
They're actually bits of tree, although I clearly got too close to them and have ended up with them hogging too much of the shot.
They're actually bits of tree, although I clearly got too close to them and have ended up with them hogging too much of the shot.
Lemming51
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I don't care for the flare. Looks faked, and distracts from your beautiful subject. Something blocking the lower right corner also takes away from the rest of the pic.
IMHO YMMV.
AOKH
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+1 I'd probably also choose a lower ISO than 3200. I'd also prefer a less flat/desaturated look (although this may have been intentional on the OP's part).Lemming51 wrote:
I don't care for the flare. Looks faked, and distracts from your beautiful subject. Something blocking the lower right corner also takes away from the rest of the pic.
IMHO YMMV.
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SelSol
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Ah yes the ISO, my own stupid fault that one, I thought I'd scrolled it to 100, but I'd obviously got a bit trigger happy and gone one notch too far, putting in on auto. Balls. The image is a bit grainy.
Yes, the desaturated look is intentional, she wanted something a bit different, a bit "fairytale" if you will, so I tried to wash it out and generate some interest.
Yes, the desaturated look is intentional, she wanted something a bit different, a bit "fairytale" if you will, so I tried to wash it out and generate some interest.
sparkey2
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The problem is if you had set to iso 100 then your shutter speed would have had to be at 1/15 to get the same exposure and I don't know about you but I know at 70mm I would not have been able make that shot. 800 iso would have been the correct setting unless you opened up to 2.8 then it would have been 640.
She looks more than willing to model for you so I think I shoot again and this time avoid the tree branches.
She looks more than willing to model for you so I think I shoot again and this time avoid the tree branches.
SHUTTER777
Active member
Looks like you had fun. Good job!
Limburger
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Don't like the dark bits up left and down right as the flare.
Do like the lighting of your model.HSS with diffuser/softbox?
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Do like the lighting of your model.HSS with diffuser/softbox?
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R2D2
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Well I'd suggest doing a re-shoot if you can.
If possible avoid the Flare.
Avoid the Veiling Glare.
Avoid the Dark Blobs
Avoid the Desaturation.
Avoid the High ISOs.
Looks like focus is good though.
IMHO it can be very easy to get too close to a project. Kudos for coming for a second opinion. You did the right thing.
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skanter
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It's great that you are experimenting, but you didn't quite pull it off. Too washed-out, flares don't look good. You should have many different versions of this as it can be changed and corrected in PP. What program are you using?
SelSol
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aftab
Forum Pro
Real problem here is the right lower corner. Rest is fine as far as the artistic freedom goes.
SelSol
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There's a second pic just about your post, have a look at that one
aftab
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It's a beautiful portrait. She is a lovely model. Her posture appears natural and her smile beautiful and soulful.SelSol wrote:
There's a second pic just about your post, have a look at that one
It's different than typical studio portraits (I assume that's what you were trying to achieve), but not too different than many out there. That's not a criticism though.
If I want to be too critical then I should mention the white specular highlight near upper border to the right. It is mildly distracting. I also wondered about including a little more of her trunk below her bust line (you get more of the thigh to anchor the the arms). These are minor points. Good effort overall.
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sparkey2
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Guess I'm more of a traditionalist because I like this one much better. If you do some editing in photoshop such as shadows and highlights or new layer and blend to multiply it will be much better yet since her face and hair is slightly blown out. Nice job on the background blur.
davidgp
Leading Member
Well, let me offer a contrarian point of view... I really like what you have attempted, including the flare and the foreground branches. The execution of both could have been better but I like the attempt as is; some improvements and it would be excellent.
The style reminds me of http://fstoppers.com/using-ordinary-objects-in-the-foreground-to-create-interesting-images
I encourage you to stick with your approach and try a second attempt.
David
The style reminds me of http://fstoppers.com/using-ordinary-objects-in-the-foreground-to-create-interesting-images
I encourage you to stick with your approach and try a second attempt.
David
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