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07/05/2007 07:59:35 PM · #1 |
Last week we had the opportunity to do our first almost proper family portrait session for a couple from our church and their first child. We have been wanting to start doing stuff like this but just havent taken the opportunity to do so. We finally did.
We used our piece of black velvet for the background, a Pedro style ringlight to the right (5 clamp lamps mounted on a plywood circle set on a tripod), a 6th clamp lamp to fill in on the left, and then there was some natural light that was making it in from the behind right that you can see on the hair. We used either the 50mm or a friends Canon EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM (I really like that lens). Editing was minimal on most - RAW conversion, levels, NI and sharpening with maybe some selective color adjustments. A couple had some heavier work done (vignettes and some cloning to clean up his nose), but nothing drastic.
Aimee did much better at directing the family into poses. I was a bit more cautious. Would love to hear feedback from the DPC community. Adrian and Christa and their family love them - which I guess is all that ultimately matters. But we would like to start doing more of these.
       
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07/05/2007 09:10:08 PM · #2 |
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07/05/2007 09:15:02 PM · #3 |
| Congrats, very nice family portraits. Looks like a lot of fun and love within the photographs. The one of the little one surrounded by white is wonderful. It looks like he is waving at us. |
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07/06/2007 07:36:10 AM · #4 |
| morning bump - any feedback on technicals? |
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07/06/2007 08:17:46 AM · #5 |
Tim... is it just me? I see a LOT of red. I'm wondering if the skin tones would look better if you dialed it just a couple of notches towards yellow.
Try this: Edit an image, bring up the hue/sat dialog, click Reds in the drop down, then in the hue adjustment box, put +3 or +4 and see what it looks like. This will leave the rest of the colors alone and adjust only the reds just a little bit towards yellow.
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07/06/2007 08:42:36 AM · #6 |
Hey David. I was hoping you might pop your head in here. I tweaked the group of images that I took (i won't touch Aimees pics until she is with me). I did what you suggested - bumped the hue on reds between 2 and 4. It did help. We had been staring at them for so long during editing that we just become blind to certain issues. I might need to tweak them a bit more but they do look better.
We have never done photos like this before for anyone but us and DPC so this has been a great learning experience. I am looking to get a wireless transmitter so I can use my speedlite off camera. Our next portrait attempt will probably be outside in a park for a larger family and maybe a senior photo shoot. We dont have alot of money for equipment so we just need to make do with what we have. But we would love to get to a point where we are doing quality work that might make us a bit of money. Help pay for our photo addiction.
Thanks for the input and we would welcome any other suggestions or advice. |
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07/06/2007 11:59:45 AM · #7 |
| That's what I saw at first, too. Too much red. Some hair lights from the back or sides would've brought out the dark hair from the dark background. |
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07/06/2007 07:38:20 PM · #8 |
He Tim, I left some comments. You and Aimee both have some wonderful captures there. I think these two are my favorites:
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