On the Beach

tomnovy

Hello,
today I have a new portrait of Jan.
Equipment:

Camera: Canon 5d mark II
Lens: Canon 24-105mm f4 L IS
Light: Bowens Strobe with a beauty dish
Software: Canon DPP and Adobe Photoshop to take Redness from the subjects face

<a href="http://www.tomnovy.co.uk/Portraits/jan-and-hagen/12516559_Pn6bT#1145794522_d3TSA-A-LB&quot; title="Ellegance"><img src="http://www.tomnovy.co.uk/Portraits/jan-and-hagen/ellegance/1145794522_d3TSA-L.jpg&quot; title="Ellegance" alt="Ellegance"></a>
If you would like to see the image in a higher resolution - click the above photo.

tomnovy

And one with the same subject - just different place.

Qarik

excellent stuff sir

adbsgicom

Nice images. Weren't these posted last year (October-ish)? I recall the first one in particular.... (or else I'm going insane....)

tomnovy

Their were similar - from the session I had quiet few. Just now had the time to correct and upload them. Thanks for the comments.

VayCayMom

#1 is spectacular ! Great lighting. #2 the pose bugs me, but wonderful composition.

tomnovy

Thanks for the comment. I will remember next time about the pose . Thank you.

Seneca

I love the second one. Nice image.

tomnovy

Seneca wrote: »

I love the second one. Nice image.

I am glad that you like it.

Mitchell

I like #2. The lighting and location are fine on #1, but I just can't get past his clothing being wrong for the setting.

tomnovy

Thanks for your comment. Unfortunatelly I did not have influence on what he was wearing. The photo was taken for his web - he is an opera singer. For that the clothing is great. Wearing Jeans would be wrong

Hackbone

Tomasz, very nice folder. I see on another shot you darkened the sky. The first shot is just screaming to do the same to it. I really, did I say really like the first shot. To get the sky to pop try to underexpose it by two stops.

tomnovy

Hackbone wrote: »

Tomasz, very nice folder. I see on another shot you darkened the sky. The first shot is just screaming to do the same to it. I really, did I say really like the first shot. To get the sky to pop try to underexpose it by two stops.

I shall remember this. Thank you for the tip.

NeilL

Tomasz, I am a bit of a fan of your style. I like the European feel I find in your shots. #2 here has that, and it's partly because of the setting, posing and the way the suit and shirt work together. I would not like you to lose that eye of yours in favour of a more "commercial" (= seniors) USA look. In parts of the world other than the USA people do go down onto the beach dressed up!

I am not so keen on the prominence of the lighting in #1, I think it makes the image too artificial, as if he were there just so the light could be seen falling on him in that way. The light pushes "him" into the background and produces a target for itself which would not be different if it was a cardboard cutout it was lighting. No doubt the lighting and the image as a whole has great appeal, but having appeal and doing something for your subject are not necessarily the same thing, I think. It's not my image, of course, but I can imagine the shot from a step ladder and him striding along the beach with coat and even shirt open, and lit more by a less self-conscious light, and a relationship developed in PP between the highlights on him and the highlights in the water and sky. I think the windfarm in the background detracts from the slight gotterdamerung feel here.

I like the lighting in #2 better, and I think I would like to see the whole of his figure separated more by it. A lot of the dramatic geometry of his pose is lost atm, and I think it needs to be there to complement the great face.

Neil

tomnovy

Thank you for the comment. I'm happy for the fact that younlike my style. I appreciate your comment regarding the light. Well I live this type of light because it brings his face features out. The sharpness Of the image is achieved thanks to the lighting. But as you said we all have opinions - my is that I love this type of light. Maybe I could use a softbix instead of beauty dish hmmm.

Again thank you for your comment.

briandelion

The fact that a well dressed man is inexplicably standing on a desolate beach is the reason why I love this shot! Reminds me of Bond...James Bond.

Hackbone

Tomasz, here is the one we emailed about with Viveza on the sky.

tomnovy

Hackbone thank you fir your effort. Looks really good. But can you see that there is like a halo effect around the subject? I use this filter sometimes - less in portrait photography.

Again, thank you for the advice - maybe I shall use this filter mote often.

Hackbone

Your eye seems more critical than mine.......don't you ever sleep?

tomnovy

Hackbone it is 14:55 here

Thank you again for the processing. I do appreciate that.