Simply Stunning Girls

binghott · May 16, 2005

i got bored at my schools baseball game and started shooting my friends that were at the game. these two girls were pretty willing to let me take their pictures, you may recognize the girl on the right from a previous post. i haven't gotten around to process the rest yet, and i just barely worked on this shot, but i absolutely loved it and had to share it. here's the color version and a b&w conversion i was satisfied with. please tell me what you think.

(digital rebel, 70-200mm 2.8L (my baby) @ 110mm, f/3.2, iso 200 (not sure why not 100), 1/250sec)

Peter Dumont · May 16, 2005

Hello Barry 1

binghott wrote:

i got bored at my schools baseball game and started shooting my friends that were at the game. these two girls were pretty willing to let me take their pictures, you may recognize the girl on the right from a previous post. i haven't gotten around to process the rest yet, and i just barely worked on this shot, but i absolutely loved it and had to share it. here's the color version and a b&w conversion i was satisfied with. please tell me what you think.

(digital rebel, 70-200mm 2.8L (my baby) @ 110mm, f/3.2, iso 200 (not sure why not 100), 1/250sec)

Hello Barry !
These girls are stunningly pretty .

Great double portrait

I do think the B/W conversion did them no good .
I thought it made the image flatter and it made them lose detail.:cry

Perhaps you should give the B/W conversion another try.

Bye,
Peter Dumont

binghott · May 16, 2005

Peter Dumont wrote:

I do think the B/W conversion did them no good .
I thought it made the image flatter and it made them lose detail.:cry

Perhaps you should give the B/W conversion another try.

thanks, i took another shot at it, tell me what you think:

jwear · May 16, 2005

I am not a B/W fan and there is no way you can show the contrast in the coloring with both girls and the blue eyes

but just a rookie

binghott · May 16, 2005

jwear wrote:

I am not a B/W fan and there is no way you can show the contrast in the coloring with both girls and the blue eyes but just a rookie

i've been starting to think the same thing about this picture.

dragon300zx · May 16, 2005

Blue eyes and freckles man that screams "I NEED TO BE IN COLOR". Great shot, but then again that could simply be my weakness for blue eyes.

Phil U. · May 16, 2005

Great looking girls and a great capture.

Definitely stick with the color on this one - there's just too much good color to give it up here.

4labs · May 16, 2005

I agree that the color version is great and I see no reason to go BW here. I hope your school is using you to shoot their yearbook pics I love your work.

Angelo · May 16, 2005

dragon300zx wrote:

Blue eyes and freckles man that screams "I NEED TO BE IN COLOR". Great shot, but then again that could simply be my weakness for blue eyes.

Fantastic portrait!!! I can almost hear them saying..."my what a big lens you have"

binghott · May 16, 2005

Angelo wrote:

Fantastic portrait!!! I can almost hear them saying..."my what a big lens you have"

yeah, you know what they say about photographers with big lenses. . .

jordankreationz · May 16, 2005

Have you tried doing a BW but leaving the girls eyes in color? That might be an awesome shot. Just a thought.

Steve Cavigliano · May 16, 2005

Bing,

Very pretty friends and a good job of capturing their beauty

I have to agree with the majority. The color one is more pleasing to me also. Yep, the freckles and blue and brown eyes really do demand it.

Jordan has a nice idea too. That might turn out nicely. You'd lose the freckles, but you'd keep the eye colors

Steve