Beach Portraits from Saturday

Travis

Saturday afternoon I had a fun shoot with 2 families at the oceanfront. I posted some of the shots in the technique thread but wanted to get some C&C from here. Thanks!

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Thanks!

Swartzy

These are great Travis. I really like your processing on these. I'll bet they print beautifully. Super job.

JenGrace

Love 1, 2, 6, and 8.

Travis

Thanks Dave and Jen! I left the beach thinking that the shoot was a bust and was incredibly surprised when uploaded the memory card.

Nikolai

Good shootn', Travis!
Just don't overdo the vignetting

jeffreaux2

THese are great Travis! Mom sure has nice eyes...and they show well in the photographs.

I like!

Travis

Nikolai wrote:

Good shootn', Travis!
Just don't overdo the vignetting

Thanks Nik. I'm noticing that in Lightroom, the vignetting isn't as dark as it is when the photo is converted to a jpeg and uploaded to the web. I'll rework it before print to lighten it because it is much too dark on some.

Travis

jeffreaux2 wrote:

THese are great Travis! Mom sure has nice eyes...and they show well in the photographs.

I like!

Thanks Jeff! The mom's eyes were incredibly striking and she really brought life to the photos. The dad (like most of us) didn't really want to be there. I think out of 50 photos, I caught 2 of him smiling.

Photosbychuck

Great Photos!

I like 2, 6 & 8 the best.
Did you use any filters?

Keep up the good work.

Charles,

RBrogen

I love 2, 7 & 8...the colors are fabulous!!!

clemensphoto's

Excellant series

Travis

Photosbychuck wrote:

Great Photos!

I like 2, 6 & 8 the best.
Did you use any filters?

Keep up the good work.

Charles,

Thanks Charles! I didn't use any lens filters. I did use a 1/4-cut CTO on the strobe fired through a Photek Softliter II for fill.

Travis

RBrogen wrote:

I love 2, 7 & 8...the colors are fabulous!!!

Thanks RBrogen. The fill light (flash and reflector) helped dial down the direct sunlight's effect of washing out the colors. For most of the shots, I had to do very little color/saturation boosts in LR.

houseofdixon

The parents don't photograph nearly as well as the kids. Does everyone find this is a normal thing? I don't shoot people much, so i don't really have a frame of reference here...

Agnieszka

Perfect set Travis. Wonderful photos!! clap