Her hair is wonderful. Not so enthralled with her nostrils though. She looks like she was enjoying herself, so maybe you can talk her into another session!
John :
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I still very much consider myself to eb 'amature', so I know others will correct me if I'm wrong here, but from my expierience/understanding..
Backdrops can be a bit distracting, even lovely ones with great patterns. Shooting with the subject a bit farther away from it can change your depth of field so that your focus is more the *person* and not the *backdrop*.
She is lovely though, and that first picture could make a stunning b/w conversion!
There are two reasons you might want to move the model forward (or the BG backward.) One is to use depth-of-field to blur the background, the other is to make use of the inverse-square law of light fall-off to darken the background. Both of these techniques tend to make your subject stand out from the BG.
You shot this at f10, so you would have to get quite a lot of physical separation to accomplish anything. I'd shoot at a larger f-stop if I were doing this portrait. You usually want a shallower depth-of-field than you have in this portrait.
The strength of light is reduced by the square of the distance from the source as it moves away. So the closer your light is to your model, the greater the effect of moving the BG away. If your model is properly exposed, your BG will fall into darkness relatively quickly as you move it back.
John :
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
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I don't think the backdrop works here as I find it a bit distracting.
I agree, though it would work better in black and white.
Next time shoot from a higher vantage point.
...and farther from the backdrop!:D
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Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Hola.
First of all thank you very much for your good advices.
But I would like to ask you a question, it is only a curiosity. Why do you think I should shoot the model further from the backdrop?
Thank you, an sorry for my English
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Backdrops can be a bit distracting, even lovely ones with great patterns. Shooting with the subject a bit farther away from it can change your depth of field so that your focus is more the *person* and not the *backdrop*.
She is lovely though, and that first picture could make a stunning b/w conversion!
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You shot this at f10, so you would have to get quite a lot of physical separation to accomplish anything. I'd shoot at a larger f-stop if I were doing this portrait. You usually want a shallower depth-of-field than you have in this portrait.
The strength of light is reduced by the square of the distance from the source as it moves away. So the closer your light is to your model, the greater the effect of moving the BG away. If your model is properly exposed, your BG will fall into darkness relatively quickly as you move it back.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.