Taylor, off camera flash senior portraits

lmyamen

A friend of the family contacted me about doing some her senior pictures. I just picked bought my shoot through umbrella last week and wireless triggers. So this was my first time out using them. I would really like some thoughts on the pics.. I do have natural light pictures that i took also but im just posting the ones where i used flash up to get insight on how i did.

I used a promaster 7500EDF flash with promaster v2 wireless triggers. The triggers worked great...as long as the sync speed was not greater than 1/200.. So i am going to definitly need to invest in pocketwizards if im going to get serious about off camera flash. But I will say the promaster triggers fired everytime. I believe the flash was at 1/4th power for most of these shots and zoomed at 50mm.

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anonymouscuban

I like them. She looks very relaxed in all of them so good job. I think some are underexposed. #6 is my fav but it could use a bump in exposure. They could all use a contrast bump too but they may improve with the exposure adjustment.

lmyamen

I will be adjusting all of those in pp, these are all straight out of the camera besides the one that was converted to b&w

adbsgicom

Very nice. I think #5 is a miss, where the light is much too high and hard and you have a very big shadow form her nose all the way down into her mouth. The similar pose in #7 seems a bunch softer in the light and much nicer.
I think #6 has particularly nice light.

Still learning, so take my input for what it's worth....

divamum

Some very nice shots (especially like #3 & 7) but way under-processed for me. I see you say susbsequently these are SOOC and (to me) they look it. Terrific material to work with, so get going with the processing and you'll have some absolute winners!!

lmyamen

Here are some edits since the original post was all straight off camera

briandelion

Of the pp shots, the last one is my favorite. I love the color on the rails and the serpentine path into the distance. The straight on vantage point of the third one doesn't work for me.