40th Anniversary Session/

JulieLawsonPhotography

On Saturday, I had the awesome opportunity to photograph my Pastors for their 40th Anniversary. I will admit, I was a little nervous about taking their pictures. I wanted to make sure that I did a great job for them. Well, I think we had a great time. Once we got started, it all just flowed and I got to see a side of my Pastors that I’m not sure everyone has seen before.
CC is appreciated:D
*with the exception of the first one, these were all taken with my new sigma 17-70 lens.

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jeffreaux2

1 and 2 are very well done.

I think maybe a tad more should be cropped from the bottom....and it could possibly stand more brightness, but I really like #5!

heatherfeather

I laughed out loud at #6... It seems so incongruous to their personalities. I like it!

These are all very nicely done.


Some quick things you could do to these in post to make them just a smidge better:

#3- Her mascara is a little clumpy under her left eye. It is in all the photos, but that is the only one where I feel it is distracting enough to bother fixing.

#4- His tag... I wonder if you could clone it out? It wouldn't be too hard in that one.

#6- Could use some warming up. It is quite a bit cooler than the others.

He has a very appealing Mr. Rogers look to him. I can just visualize him doing a children's program- zipping up his cardigan and tossing his shoes from hand to hand. Great job catching his personality! That is tricky in stoic people.

JulieLawsonPhotography

heatherfeather wrote:

I laughed out loud at #6... It seems so incongruous to their personalities. I like it!

These are all very nicely done.


Some quick things you could do to these in post to make them just a smidge better:

#3- Her mascara is a little clumpy under her left eye. It is in all the photos, but that is the only one where I feel it is distracting enough to bother fixing.

#4- His tag... I wonder if you could clone it out? It wouldn't be too hard in that one.

#6- Could use some warming up. It is quite a bit cooler than the others.

He has a very appealing Mr. Rogers look to him. I can just visualize him doing a children's program- zipping up his cardigan and tossing his shoes from hand to hand. Great job catching his personality! That is tricky in stoic people.

I saw the mascara in all the pics, but wasn't sure exactly how to clone that out. I found that he has quite a few skin tags. I did get rid of one in one picture. He is very Mr. Rogers (although I wouldnt tell him. lol)

Thanks to you and Jeff for the comments and CC

heatherfeather

Actually I meant the tag on his shirt.... Skin tags should be left, as they are part of his face on his best day. You wouldn't remove an earlobe or something, would you? Only fix blemishes that are temporary, unless it is for a glamorized photo. Though sometimes I fix scarring, but usually only on the ladies.

To get rid of the mascara it should be simple... make a new layer, use the patch tool... (choose "source" option) and then circle around it and drag it to a part of her face that has no blemishes and similar skin texture. If it isn't perfect, then mask through to the original layer in the area around it. It really should be a simple fix. No more than 2 minutes, I should say.

Chrissiebeez_NL

umm.. yeah.. in my opinion these photos are way too 'happy-shiny-American-no-troubles-in-the-world' for my (European) taste. please dont take it personal as this is only my opinion but the people do not come across as genuine, especially the last two. I find it remarkable since you produce such nice work like here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=134650

oh well.. i could be horribly wrong, im > 6000 km away

On the technicallities: his shirt is blown which is pretty distracting to me.

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Chrissiebeez_NL wrote:

umm.. yeah.. in my opinion these photos are way too 'happy-shiny-American-no-troubles-in-the-world' for my (European) taste. please dont take it personal as this is only my opinion but the people do not come across as genuine, especially the last two. I find it remarkable since you produce such nice work like here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=134650

oh well.. i could be horribly wrong, im > 6000 km away

On the technicallities: his shirt is blown which is pretty distracting to me.

I appreciate your honesty. I had a nervous start as I had to separate myself from church member/Pastor to photographer/subject.

We had a good time and they do love the pictures. They wanted something not stuffy and formal because they wanted to show that they are still having fun after all these years.

Thank you so much for the CC I do appreciate it.

Chrissiebeez_NL

glad you didnt mind me posting that!

the seperation part may be explanatory why you kept it on the safe side, but its a step back in my view (because your other work is nice! )

oh well, as long as they are happy with it, thats whats important!