Shoot from today.

gavin

Photos from a shoot today. Any comments most welcome.

JimFuglestad

Hi Gavin,

Nice work! I think my favorite is the one under the brick arch. stands out nicely and it's nicely light in contrast with the bright background. i also enjoy the DOF.

I feel like I would like to have seen her smile in a one of them...

heatherfeather

These are really pretty! Love your light and the dof is perfect!

They do feel just a tad cool to my taste, but that might be just me.
Love the texture and colors in these... her curly hair with the bricks is a fantastic combo.

CyberSteak

<---not a fan of the blurry forground

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Spydawebb

I really like the last one. Nicely done.

Dave Clee

Great series. Beautiful subject. I like the location. The contrast between subject and bricks definitely work for me.

#1 and #2 appear to be a tad overexposed on her face from my uncalibrated lcd here at work.

Other than that I think its a good series.

Cheers

Dave

Rhinotherunt

Beautiful work! They are a bit on the blue side... and yes my monitor is calibrated.

gavin

Thank you everyone

Regarding the color temp, I found that actually really rather hard to nail on this one. She has really red hair. If I increased the yellow at all it turned her hair really orange. This was the best balance I could find, to make her hair look the most natural.

Any ideas on getting around this? Perhaps Making to files with different color balances in the RAW converter, one to account for her hair and one for the background, then layer mask them together?

Rhinotherunt

Mind if I play with one? I am thinking putting a photo filter overlay...

gavin

Be my guest.

Rhinotherunt

gavin wrote:

Be my guest.

I opened in ACR and used the WB dropped and clicked on the white of her eye. I also boosted the clarity to 25 and lums to 25. added a slight vignette...

gavin

Rhinotherunt wrote:

I opened in ACR and used the WB dropped and clicked on the white of her eye. I also boosted the clarity to 25 and lums to 25. added a slight vignette...

That does look much better,

You opened in adobe camera Raw? not sure what you mean when you say you used the WB dropped, where can you adjust lums?

cheers!

Rhinotherunt

gavin wrote:

That does look much better,

You opened in adobe camera Raw? not sure what you mean when you say you used the WB dropped, where can you adjust lums?

cheers!

I meant the WB tool that looks like an eye dropper. Also, not lums, but vibrancy. Got ahead of myself.

Yeah, you can (in preferences) open jpg files in ACR.

gavin

Rhinotherunt wrote:

I meant the WB tool that looks like an eye dropper. Also, not lums, but vibrancy. Got ahead of myself.

Yeah, you can (in preferences) open jpg files in ACR.

Ha, that is what I interpreted what you described, but was confused by what you actually said.

thanks alot, I will try this myself.

EDIT: You learn something new everyday

RBrogen

Nice work here Gavin. Great use of DOF, subject is in sharp focus and nice PP...and yes the whites of her eyes were more of a yellow tint but that WB trick works great or even a HS Layer and drop the yellow out..... I like that you got so many from the same location yet distinctly different.

gavin

RBrogen wrote:

Nice work here Gavin. Great use of DOF, subject is in sharp focus and nice PP...and yes the whites of her eyes were more of a yellow tint but that WB trick works great or even a HS Layer and drop the yellow out..... I like that you got so many from the same location yet distinctly different.

Cheers!

Yeah, I never new about that white balance trick now I do and it will come is really handy.

ivar

Very nice, thanks for posting! I prefer #3, 4 and 5 for her relaxed expression. it seems like she is slightly more uncomfortable in the first two. I really like the archers, nice location!