frigid
by Elmakias

Comment:
Excellent job - had this pegged as a lovethelight image. Hope yo utake that as a compliment. Well done!

Textured background
by timfythetoo

Comment:
I hate you Ursula!!! Well not really. ;)

~Dancer~
by annig

Comment:
Now this I find very pleasing. The lightness of the shot just makes all the difference. Lovely work.

Kaylee 2
by timfythetoo

Comment:
This was our first proper single person portrait shoot. We did these indoor shots at their home with our 420ex bounced off an umbrella for the main light but also with a flood bulb in a desk lamp as the back light. What this gave us were a combination of light and colors that couldnt be fixed proper with a simple white balance selection. We had this funky orange cast on the background that was hard to eliminate. You can actually still see some of it around her body.

The vignette is overall added afterwards in Lightroom. We tried to get it in camera but did not succeed with that light setup. Pretty much all of the images that we finished editing for her had some sort of vignette added as the last element. Lightroom has an excellent vignette tool.

This shoot taught us a number of things. Even though our flash was technically off camera we were still attached to it by a 2ft cord - solution is we now own a 580ex to act as the master. At some point we will pick up a vivitar to use as a backdrop light. We also learned that we can not count on a bare wall to be a good backdrop - so right now we are in the market for a black and a white muslin plus a portable backdrop stand so that we can easily shoot in other peoples homes if need be. And finally we learned that our Sigma 18-125 lens was not so hot for portraits - we purchased the Tamron 28-75 2.8 as a replacement and boy oh boy what a right decision that was.

P r e s u m p t u o u s
by njsabs

Comment:
Very glad to see this place well.

zero pain
by lowonenergy

Comment:
Came back to see whose image this was. Very well done.

Message edited by author 2007-11-14 06:52:31.

Eating it the hard way
by senor_kasper

Comment:
Well done and congrats on your ribbon!

Pop
by dmadden

Comment:
Well done David! I had a high score all week long but I knew that if any image was gonna beat mine it was this one. You easily had my highest vote in the challenge. Congrats on your first ribbon!

the right shape!
by takinou42

Comment:
Not an attention grabbing image. Feels too much like a normal snapshot.

Untitled
by Fromac

Comment:
Not quite sure what I am looking at. Makes me wonder slightly, but doesnt have enough interest factor to keep me wondering.