Downtown Senior Photos

kdotaylor

I'm looking for comments/critique on this senior session from the other day. He wanted some shots inside a coffee shop with his guitars; then we just wandered downtown.......... I know I'm all over the place with processing--I wish I had a good, smooth workflow, or method for doing this!

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divamum

Ha! Given the other threads around right now, I keep reading this as "Downton" lol

In any case, some fun ones here - 4/5/7/9/10 are GREAT shots!! What happens to 10 if you process it like 9?

Fwiw, I don't think 2/6/8 are in the same league as the others - they're, ok, but nothing special. The others REALLY pop with great angles and composition and some genuine expression/activity from the young man. Good job!

StueveShots

I had nearly the same thoughts as divamum...4, 5 and 7 are stand-outs for me. I love 10...but would also like to see what would happen if you increased the black point and made it pop a bit more. (I also think 4 could stand to be processed a bit more like 5.)

Some really great shots here!

Hackbone

Overall a nice session. 2.3.8 are not his best angle so watch for the best angle but rest I really do like. How about trying a slight vignette on a few, it really helps to draw attention to the subject. 4.5.7&9 are great.

zoomer

7 I like.
Use a consistent levels adjusment when processing.
Watch the right tilts.
Looks like a fun shoot.

jmphotocraft

These are great, he has a classic look. I would crop 2 and 3 tighter to put his face in the top half of the image.

AlTheKiller

5-8 are the winners in my opinion

your workflow and how you edit will smooth out and become consistent the more you do it. Keep doing these shoots

kdotaylor

AlTheKiller wrote: »

5-8 are the winners in my opinion

your workflow and how you edit will smooth out and become consistent the more you do it. Keep doing these shoots

Thank you. I just looked at your Flicker photos, and all I can say is WOW. What program do you use for editing?

kdotaylor

jmphotocraft wrote: »

These are great, he has a classic look. I would crop 2 and 3 tighter to put his face in the top half of the image.

Thank you. Will try that.

kdotaylor

StueveShots wrote: »

I had nearly the same thoughts as divamum...4, 5 and 7 are stand-outs for me. I love 10...but would also like to see what would happen if you increased the black point and made it pop a bit more. (I also think 4 could stand to be processed a bit more like 5.)

Some really great shots here!

Thanks, I'll play around a bit with these.

kdotaylor

divamum wrote: »

Ha! Given the other threads around right now, I keep reading this as "Downton" lol

In any case, some fun ones here - 4/5/7/9/10 are GREAT shots!! What happens to 10 if you process it like 9?

Fwiw, I don't think 2/6/8 are in the same league as the others - they're, ok, but nothing special. The others REALLY pop with great angles and composition and some genuine expression/activity from the young man. Good job!

Thank you, Diva! "Downton"--haha

Qarik

posing tip: when posing guys where they are slightly angled to camera, typically the forward shoulder should be higher than the back shoulder (more masculine) and vice versa for gals (more feminine)

AlTheKiller

kdotaylor wrote: »

Thank you. I just looked at your Flicker photos, and all I can say is WOW. What program do you use for editing?

sorry for such a late response and thank you for the kind words

Depends on the photo and whats needing to done. My general work flow would be importing into lightroom 5, flagging the photos I think will work, edit in lightroom such as exposure, contrast, white balance and any spot cloning. Then edit in Photoshop CC for cropping and any fine tune cloning like stray hairs and the like. From there back into lightroom for a final skin smoothing and done.

this is very general and changes all the time but for the most part what happens. I never really learned layers and the like in photoshop so I dont use it much for anything

jmphotocraft

AlTheKiller wrote: »

From there back into lightroom for a final skin smoothing and done.

Pardon the dumb question but how do you do skin smoothing in LR?

kombizz

I like #4,6,7, and 10.
nice capture with good use of his poses.

Qarik

jmphotocraft wrote: »

Pardon the dumb question but how do you do skin smoothing in LR?

I go this one.

Local brush, set size and feather, set clarity to maybe -30 for 1st level smoothing, -50 or higher for beauty type shots..brush away!