First True Studio shoot
First time I have posted pics here, but no need to take it easy on me. I'm a big boy and have had my work abused at other sites, so have at.
Needing some fresh pics for my portfolio, I turned to my local university to provide me some talent. This is the first of 4 students to respond. Weather was supposed to be rainy, so rather than go outside, I decided to make the call to do a studio type shoot - something I have never done (of course, it didn't rain a bit). The goal, in addition to getting some new pics, was to work with someone whom I didn't know and try to get used to some posing and directions. Christy had never done professional style pictures and, all said, she did amazing given the ineptness of her photog.
ISO 100, 1/160, 6.3, main light camera right @1/4 power and hair light 1/32 power camera left. I wish I had a reflector to kick some light back in from the main light, but alas, part of learning and I did not.
C&C more than welcomed.
Needing some fresh pics for my portfolio, I turned to my local university to provide me some talent. This is the first of 4 students to respond. Weather was supposed to be rainy, so rather than go outside, I decided to make the call to do a studio type shoot - something I have never done (of course, it didn't rain a bit). The goal, in addition to getting some new pics, was to work with someone whom I didn't know and try to get used to some posing and directions. Christy had never done professional style pictures and, all said, she did amazing given the ineptness of her photog.
ISO 100, 1/160, 6.3, main light camera right @1/4 power and hair light 1/32 power camera left. I wish I had a reflector to kick some light back in from the main light, but alas, part of learning and I did not.
C&C more than welcomed.
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They do look quite orange to me - did you shoot jpg or raw, and did you boost contrast or crush the blacks when you processed?
I'll have to check the images and see if I changed the black point. I didn't think I used it on these as it did affect the entire image and I wasn't liking the results.
14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
Agree with him that your rework is better, but still a ton of red in the shadows when I looked at them on my calibrated IPS monitor. However, I am currently looking at them on my UNcalibrated laptop screen - they look much better on this. Perhaps you should recalibrate, just in case that's what's not quite accurate and is misleading your eye?
14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
Walls are white with about 1 foot of brick around the base - most of it covered by stuff. I did have to put up a red towel to block out some light from a window. I guess that could be causing the problem, but the towel completely blocked it out and was behind the main flash. I would have thought 1/160 was getting high enough that only a very little of the ambient was getting in the images.
Feel free to download and edit away - just make sure your edits can be done in LR as that is my only editing software.
it was your editing that is causing most of the issue but part of THAT was due to the fact that you have specular highlights all over her face and you were trying to clean that up. specular highlights are due to small light sources in general. Can you describe your light setup? umbrella (w/backing?), softbox? bare flash? how far was it away? etc
14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
I think the light in general was just a little too hot, which is what's making it tricky to edit.
okay so one reason you are getting the spec highlights..the softbox is just too far away. You want to soften the light? Move the sb so it is like 18 inches away from subject (or just out of camera frame)! your apparent light source size will roughly quadruple in size going from 5 feet to 18 in. (you will have to reduce power though)
14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
Take no offense here, but that skin tone is way off from her actual skin tone. She is Latino and her skin was much more "tan" colored than that.
In point of fact, on my (typically accurate) monitor, the S00C has a marked magenta cast to her skin - very pink cheeks, not the olive-y tan I associate with Latina coloring. I think Qarik may be on to something with reflected reds.
Do you have a 2nd monitor (even a smartphone) you can look at? I think you'll see what we're talking about.
That's strange I see it.