Janelle

thoth

Heya folks,

I did a small shoot with a friend Friday evening and thought I'd get your opinions on a few of the shots. I appreciate you all taking the time to check them out.

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Thanks, again, for looking!

MisterMcCruff

Really nice series and lighting.
I especially like the expression in number 2.
Personally, I think I might have gone for a wider aperture to give them a shallower depth of field and a bit more bokeh but that's personal preference.
It may well just be this uncalibrated work monitor but I'd have chilled out on the saturation of that pink top a little bit too.

Good work!

thoth

MisterMcCruff wrote:

Really nice series and lighting.
I especially like the expression in number 2.
Personally, I think I might have gone for a wider aperture to give them a shallower depth of field and a bit more bokeh but that's personal preference.
It may well just be this uncalibrated work monitor but I'd have chilled out on the saturation of that pink top a little bit too.

Good work!

Thank you for the comments. As my monitor is not color-calibrated it's always a crap shoot with the saturation. I'll revisit them and cool it down a bit. Thanks for the suggestion!

adbsgicom

Nice images, Travis.
Of the set, I prefer the first. She has a nice pose overall. You did cut her off at the knuckles, but that doesn't really bug me (perhaps because I do it all the time). Color may be a tinge to the magenta, but still fine by me.

Second one I like the pose overall, and she has a great smile. I don't think that position though is doing her nearest eye any favors. Her eyebrow is a little off, and the crows feet at the eye make her seem much older than in the prior picture. There is definitely some magenta reflection from her top hitting the lower part of the face as well. Love the idea, though.

Third is very similar to the first in most respects. I like her facial expression much more in the first, though.

Season opinions with appropriate amounts of salt....

thoth

adbsgicom wrote:

Nice images, Travis.
Of the set, I prefer the first. She has a nice pose overall. You did cut her off at the knuckles, but that doesn't really bug me (perhaps because I do it all the time). Color may be a tinge to the magenta, but still fine by me.

Second one I like the pose overall, and she has a great smile. I don't think that position though is doing her nearest eye any favors. Her eyebrow is a little off, and the crows feet at the eye make her seem much older than in the prior picture. There is definitely some magenta reflection from her top hitting the lower part of the face as well. Love the idea, though.

Third is very similar to the first in most respects. I like her facial expression much more in the first, though.

Season opinions with appropriate amounts of salt....

Kosher or sea?

Thanks for the comments, Andrew, I appreciate them. I'll revisit the saturation and see if that doesn't help with that magenta cast as well. The second shot isn't as flattering as I would have liked it to be but, overall, I was happy that I got one in that pose to work at all. I'll be shooting her again one of these days and definitely want to give that one another go.

ivar

Nice series to me #2 is the stronger one here. The (cut off) hand in 1 bothers me a tad too much to really like the shot. Her expression in #3 doesn't seem so natural to me as in the other 2. I really like her smile in #2, as well as her hand/fingers hold her shirt.

thoth

ivar wrote:

Nice series to me #2 is the stronger one here. The (cut off) hand in 1 bothers me a tad too much to really like the shot. Her expression in #3 doesn't seem so natural to me as in the other 2. I really like her smile in #2, as well as her hand/fingers hold her shirt.

Thanks, Ivar. It's always nice to hear other's preferences.

adbsgicom

Either variety of salt works

If you re-pose the first, there general wisdom that says to not shoot a woman's hands wide. Get her hand tilted along the pillow so you have more of a profile so they look longer and narrower.

thoth

adbsgicom wrote:

Either variety of salt works

If you re-pose the first, there general wisdom that says to not shoot a woman's hands wide. Get her hand tilted along the pillow so you have more of a profile so they look longer and narrower.

Thanks for the suggestion, Andrew. That's actually one of those things that I know and instantly forget once a camera is in my hand. I'll try and keep that in mind next time, though.

adbsgicom

thoth wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion, Andrew. That's actually one of those things that I know and instantly forget once a camera is in my hand. I'll try and keep that in mind next time, though.

If I could do what I know I should do when I have the camera in hand, I'd be a much better photographer. I think the weight in my hand causes a lack of blood flow the brain...

thoth

adbsgicom wrote:

If I could do what I know I should do when I have the camera in hand, I'd be a much better photographer. I think the weight in my hand causes a lack of blood flow the brain...

To hell with new sensors with high ISO and extreme fps, I want a camera that says "turn her hand moron"!

adbsgicom

thoth wrote:

To hell with new sensors with high ISO and extreme fps, I want a camera that says "turn her hand moron"!

Some apple app (iPix or Picassa) was touting the facial recognition sw for tagging. So we just need to amp that up a bit and have it operate in realtime on the data coming through the lens before we press the button. Not inconceivable. Ironically, it is more conceivable on the P&S since they all work off of 'Live View' mode as a default.

thoth

adbsgicom wrote:

Some apple app (iPix or Picassa) was touting the facial recognition sw for tagging. So we just need to amp that up a bit and have it operate in realtime on the data coming through the lens before we press the button. Not inconceivable. Ironically, it is more conceivable on the P&S since they all work off of 'Live View' mode as a default.

I've actually done a little work with facial recognition for the hospitality industry. I guess I could modify the scope of that project a bit...

In all seriousness, the next 10 years will see cameras with enough processing power to intelligently coach a model(s) into appealing positions. The algorithms either exist or are conceivable now. What a time we live in... (is that good or bad? ).

adbsgicom

thoth wrote:

I've actually done a little work with facial recognition for the hospitality industry. I guess I could modify the scope of that project a bit...

In all seriousness, the next 10 years will see cameras with enough processing power to intelligently coach a model(s) into appealing positions. The algorithms either exist or are conceivable now. What a time we live in... (is that good or bad? ).

Jury is still out. We had a wonderful discussion on the goods and bads of our communication systems at our Passover Seder this past year. When people type things that they would never say to a person who was in front of them, and many other ills, as well as the upside in how these systems, like DGrin, allow us to meet people we would never otherwise meet and learn so much from each other.

I still like the shocked expression on our kids/teens faces when you tell them about living in a world without cell phones or answering machines.

thoth

adbsgicom wrote:

Jury is still out. We had a wonderful discussion on the goods and bads of our communication systems at our Passover Seder this past year. When people type things that they would never say to a person who was in front of them, and many other ills, as well as the upside in how these systems, like DGrin, allow us to meet people we would never otherwise meet and learn so much from each other.

I still like the shocked expression on our kids/teens faces when you tell them about living in a world without cell phones or answering machines.

My family didn't have a home phone, let alone an answering machine, until I was 17. Granted, we didn't have much money and were a bit behind the times but it wasn't all that uncommon. We've yet to see the worst from technology, I'm afraid, but someday we'll all learn to make the most of it I hope. If nothing else, maybe the next generation of iPhone will make it unnecessary to think about what bad things can happen from it.