Keeping my promise with Angelique

Bilsen

ALL blurry BKG. All at f4.0 or faster and WAYYYYYYY off the bkg.



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4.Except this one. I just love her pose and expression. LOL


5. I'll end it here with my typical headshot.

divamum

2/3/5 are great. Not crazy about 1 - it's sort of blurred, but all the light/shade and colours still make it scream "LOOKY ME" lol 4 is indeed a good pose, but I was too busy looking at the lion to notice it.... :giggle

Pose in 3 is AMAZING. Is that her or you? Either way.... wowzers. Can't even imagine how much it hurt to hold it!!

Bilsen

WOW that was quick.

All poses are mine so blame me. 3 was actually a pretty quick set.Pp

Curious how you'd blur a lion who is 6" away,

troopers

Bilsen wrote: »

Curious how you'd blur a lion who is 6" away,

Easiest way is to move model away from lion.

divamum

Maybe its not the lion per se, but the multiple strong elements: brick in shadow, brick in light, greenery, lion, model. Which are we supposed to look at, given they all have equal "weight" in the image? Model against lion would be fine, I guess. Model against all that other "stuff" gets lost......

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D3Sshooter

2,3,4,5 are just fine…. sure the lion is a bit bright and tends to pull the attention. But then again the pose is so nice that it doesn't really matter to me. Maybe just darken it a bit

The blur in 1 , is not really working. I guess it is because it is missing bokeh. Something you do have in the second shot.

Slanted pictures and wall seldom work, but you did it OK in picture 3…. it works well with the pose and brings some kind of dynamic to the shot.


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Dooginfif20

These are all good shots, but for me the exposures and WB are all over the place for me.

1. The WB needs to be moved a touch cool and the exposure needs either a touch dialed down in the midtones of a curves layer or open it in CR and use the recovery slider.
2. Probably the best of the set in my opinion. WB and BKG separation are great here
3. Only nit here is the WB and the exposure is borderline blowing pixels on the right side of her face
4. My least favorite of the set.
5. Not sure if its the compression from online posting, but I am having trouble finding the focus point as the picture is soft. The WB is a touch warm again and the right side of her face is a touch over in my opinion.

^^^ this is my opinion so take it as that

Bilsen

Thanks all.

Try try again I suppose.

jonh68

Curious, in 1 what focal length are you shooting? If you are shooting at 70 mm and at f4 you are not going to get much separation as you would at 200 f4. My favorite beach lens is my 70-300 VR because it is small and lite compared to my 70-200 2.8. At 300 mm and 7.1 I can melt away background condominiums.

Also, the time of day you picked to shoot makes the backgrounds difficult to tame. In 1 the distraction isn't so much sharpness of the background but the lighting of the background. You have reflections off the leaves that cause pinpoints of blown highlights combined with spotty highlights in the grass. With her face in the leaves and the highlights on her cheek, her face kind of blends in with the background. If you are shooting midday which this appears it may be good to shoot with a polarized filter to reduce highlight reflections.

Bilsen

Thanks John.

# 1 was shot at 80mm (128 mm eq on APS-C) with my 24-105 f4L. Thus it was at about 3/4 tele.

You are close. It was shot at about 11:00 AM. I can tell you why but that might be seen as an "excuse" so I won't do that. I probably should, indeed, look into a circular filter or three (one for each lens).

jmphotocraft

Overall I think this set is a major improvement, and many shots are excellent by professional standards. As has been said, 1 could have been blurred a bit more, but it's still better than no blur. The pose is great so I'd call it a keeper. I'm digging the blur and slants in 2 and 3. Funny enough, I like 4 very much. I think the lion was a worthwhile prop, it's interesting, and she nailed the pose, so the whole shot works for me. Yeah the foliage on the right and the wall going back into the shadow on the left could have been blurred more, but they are such minor features it doesn't matter to me. She is obviously right next to the lion and the wall so it wouldn't make sense for them to be blurred anyway. This shot looks very natural to me, like something you could see on a college campus.

Great work!

My only criticism is that she is too hot for gauges!! :puke1 :puke1 :puke1

jonh68 wrote: »

Curious, in 1 what focal length are you shooting?

Try Firefox and FxIF. Changed my life.

Bilsen

Thank you JMP BUT you are scaring me now.:whew

Seriously, I'm glad you see that the lion is integral. I don't disagree about the AMOUNT of blur but again, f4 was all there was. I really don't trust the Tamron (28-75 f2.8) to do the job that the two Canon "L"s do. I will start using it more and you'll see, in the Jena shoot I just posted, that I've actually put my 85 mm 1.8 to work. I wish Canon made a 24-105 f2.8 that wouldn't cost me a 2nd mortgage. Now THAT would be a lens.

Here's another with the lion that I think works even better (but I don't get out much):


Thanks again.

jmphotocraft

Meh, I like the one with her back to the lion much better, it's a natural pose that she might actually strike in real life. IMO this one looks too contrived and like she wants to have relations with the lion.

Bilsen

OL so much for pushing my luck.