Wow! Your ISO is set WAY to the sky! turn that little bugger down alot!
I dont know how to do it, but Johnna looks like she does, so there you go. Also your background is distracting, but not too badly. and you should just crop out the window entirely. Other then that your gorgous! lol!
Okay sweet pea... time to get to know that beautiful camera of yours :) First thing, turn that ISO DOWN... it is WAYYYYYY to high. You should be shooting portraits at no more than 100 and only in super special circumstances should you use anything higher. The higher the ISO, the more noise your photo is going to turn out with. Second, flip the switch over to your M setting and punch in the following: F4.0 ISO 100 then put something in the spot that you will be standing (where your eyes will be), set your camera on a tripod, flip the button on your lens over to MF for manual focus, turn the end of the lens left and right until the object where you will be is perfectly in focus and halfway press your shutter... your camera will then meter the light :) now, if the meter (the little thing that looks like this: -2...-1...0...1...2) has the arrow on the - side, turn your shutter speed down (slower)... if the arrow is on the 1 or 2 on the right, turn your shutter speed up... then, repeat the process until it is dead on 0. Now, set the self timer, get out front and move the object you were using as a place holder, hit the shutter and pose. :) Always pay very close attention to your background... it will make you or break you :) After you have taken your pic, take it into photoshop and adjust it as necessary... usually a quick levels and always use an Unsharp Mask adjustment (just play with this until you get the effect you like on the photo and make sure you have preview checked in the box that pops up). Your window light is great here but the catchlights are really everything in a portrait... I also like the shirt you chose to wear... it is flattering to your features which are romanesque and very strong. I am disturbed by only being able to see a tad bit of your left eye and by your nose cutting your far cheek in half. The turn of the shoulders is a bit too front facing as well.
My my my, I did get carried away!!! I hope that you get some helpful information out of this post though :) If you wanna kill me, I live in Dayton, Tennessee... just let me know you are coming so I can have the camera ready for the next nightmares challenge :) hehe
I do like the lighting on your face. I think the background is really busy and distracting though. I also think if you weren't as centered, or maybe a little lower in the frame the composition might be improved. I would almost like to see this image with everything from the drycleaning on to the left edge cropped out. Good colors and I like the blown out window.
hi miss Kelly,please forgive me,its Jojo's fault!,lol,first things my eyes are drawn to here are the drycleaning clothes hanging to the left of your head,and even tho the light comming thru the window is flattering(mabe a tad bright on right side of your face)i think if you were further away from the window and turned a bit more towards the camera(45deg. as per Jo's tutorial)this would have been greatlighting,also mabe might wanna less busy background(its you we want to see,not the apartment,lol)i must say that all of the models in this exercise are quite lovely,and now i see why none of the guys did a portrait lol!
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