Beach Portraits

Ohiohiker

First attempt at some family portraits at the beach this summer.

C&C welcome as I just got my monitor calibrated and I am hoping the colors are correct.


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Thanks for looking. I am just starting to take more portraits and would like any input.

Coleman Photography

seem a tad under exposed to me and the first one has a yellow cast over it. just my 2 cents. besides that they are nice.

Ohiohiker

How is this
Here is another go at #1

Flutist

Ohiohiker wrote:

Here is another go at #1

This seems worse, now they are a tad pink......

Ohiohiker

Yet another try
I went back to original raw file and boosted the exposure 0.75ev and tried again. Thanks for the help.

Flutist

Ohiohiker wrote:

I went back to original raw file and boosted the exposure 0.75ev and tried again. Thanks for the help.

This one looks the best

Ohiohiker

Thanks
I am still trying to get my head around post processing. In the raw file the sky was very dull, but during the shoot the colors were very rich. So in the first to bring out the sky I think I over did the boys. Then went and tried fix it overall with the second. The third I did a layer mask for the sky and was able to get both subjects correct. Thanks for the help.

Flutist

Ohiohiker wrote:

I am still trying to get my head around post processing. In the raw file the sky was very dull, but during the shoot the colors were very rich. So in the first to bring out the sky I think I over did the boys. Then went and tried fix it overall with the second. The third I did a layer mask for the sky and was able to get both subjects correct. Thanks for the help.

Did you try a spot selection, to adjust the hues of the sky without adjusting the boys coloring at all? I'm not good at that at all, but I know many here are wonderful at it!!

jpendley77

The 3rd version with the hues adjusted looks the best.