recent attempt at portraits, your opinion please..

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

03/08/2005 08:53:50 AM · #1

spent some time with my best friend Namrata and she was patient enough for me to try some portraits of her. Let me know what you think and how can I improve upon these...
thanks for looking :)

rscorp

Nikon D70

03/08/2005 09:42:33 AM · #2

Very nice. I like the first and third the most. Very relaxed look from your friend, the colors are nice, great poses and good focus. Nothing really wrong with the second, I just prefer the other two. Nice work.

Plexxoid

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

03/08/2005 09:47:02 AM · #3

I'm surprised you called these attempts, these are successes! First one is my favorite.

eostyles

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

03/08/2005 09:51:20 AM · #4

I like the first and third as well... Great lighting too. Did you use a back drop or did you take the bg out yourself?

Fujifilm FinePix S9100/9600

03/08/2005 10:10:20 AM · #5

thanks for your comments Robert,Andrew and Eric. the first one is my favorite too. I like the skin tones and expression..

Eric,
As you can see the background is not much visible as the face/hair covers most of it.. and also she was wearing black, but still its not as black, so I copied the image ( full image) and used gaussian blur on it and changed the mode to overlay ( so that the black portions get more burned ) and i could get the desired result. but this dodges some parts, which I had to burn a little.

tanoluv

03/08/2005 10:35:43 AM · #6

These pictures are great. What kind of light setup did you use?

Fujifilm FinePix S9100/9600

03/08/2005 10:40:45 AM · #7

Originally posted by tanoluv:

These pictures are great. What kind of light setup did you use?

they are all natural light and not even reflectors used.
1,3 : She was standing early morning in the balcony looking out...this wasn't planned. I just found her standing there and it looked great. since she was in a shade, the light was very diffused, and the white background is the community park which is relatively blown out due to morning sun.

2 : natural light coming from one window, all other windows/doors were out so this gave decent light and i didn't need anything extra.

tanoluv

03/08/2005 10:54:11 AM · #8

Thank you for the explanation. Once again congratulations on the excellent pictures.

tano