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05/03/2005 07:31:28 PM · #1 |
My beautiful cousin wearing a black shirt, in front of a black background.
Considering the fact that portraits is my weakness but my weakest type of photography, I will appreciate any comment on this one.
Thanks a lot!
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05/03/2005 07:39:27 PM · #2 |
| Love to help, but people are my weakest area also, and I am sure others could give you much better advice than me! Looks beautiful to me. I think the lighting on her forehead might be less-than-perfect, but I am sure you know that. I think the pure black background is a matter of what you want ot achieve. Her neck is almost floating, and I honestly am not sure if I like it better for that or not as much. Great work, Adi! |
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05/03/2005 07:40:27 PM · #3 |
First off... you have a lovely subject to shoot... I'm not sure exactly what look you are going for... but here are a few nits that are jmo...
1. the black shirt makes her look like she is a floating head... you might want a different colored shirt or light the shirt a bit...
2. her hair disappears into the background, you might consider a hairlight... maybe a back light to take care of both.
3. her neck is dangerously close to being too hot, drawing away from the face...
I think you have a good start in need of only a few minor tweeks, love to see more of them! Keep shooting, portraits are difficult... I love them and hate them all at the same time! LOL
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05/03/2005 07:54:12 PM · #4 |
| this image feels overly processed, the skin shows no texture at all. other that that, I think this is a interesting image. |
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05/03/2005 08:39:40 PM · #5 |
| Basically the same advice, a little splash of light coming down from an angle above and behind her would put an nice outline around the shirt and hair so she's not so blended in. |
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05/03/2005 08:54:14 PM · #6 |
| Good start. I agree with the hair light and the neck being overexposed. Also it seems like the skin color is off. A little purple hue on my monitor. Try warming it up. |
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05/03/2005 08:57:01 PM · #7 |
did you use neat image? the skin is unnaturally smooth.
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05/04/2005 03:46:56 AM · #8 |
First - thank you so much for your input!
As for the image itself - her's the story:
I was shooting with her for one of the challenges going, and for that I needed the black background.
There was hardly no light at all in the room. Just a very small (100w) desk-lamp lighting on a gold reflector at her side.
I took this one at a shatter speed of 3 or 4 seconds and she was so tires she barely held her head up.
That's why she looks floating. Didn't really mean to make it this way but I pretty much liked the way it turned up...
As for the hot spot of her neck, to be honest I didn't even noticed that :-/
Thank you all for pointing this out! I should be more careful about it while doing pp work. I suppose it has to be with the contrast boost.
The pp here is only a lot of contrast and neatImage.
Yes, the smoothness is probably from the neatImage. But as for the colors, I didn't fix anything. these are the colors of the cam in the light I was using. (the cam's setting was on +2 levels of contrast and +2 levels of saturation).
So I would love to hear some more input about which channels I should take care of.
Thanks a lot! I appreciate your comments greatly!
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05/04/2005 04:08:08 AM · #9 |
Could I just say that there seems to be a shadow under the bottom lip which I find a little distracting.
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