A dash of sepia...

beline

I took these shots one evening while experiementing with lighting for one of my photo classes... They had a bit of a red cast, which I corrected, and added 50% sepia... In regards to lighting, these are all "Portrait" lighting shots, I didn't like the others much... How do they work?

UPDATE: Fixed the watermark... Much happier...

urbanaries

beline wrote:

How do they work?

uh, hard to tell, because your watermark is as distractingly huge as it is undreadable.

CarnalSigh

I have to be honest....I am not a huge fan of the angled shots. IMO they are done waaay too much these days. Other than that tho, I like the lighting and sepia tone. The feel of it is great. You did a good job of pulling forth the fella's playful personality. Lastly...holy cow....could you make your watermark any bigger? While I fully appreciate the need for it, size wise it is a bit....much.

beline

I suppose I could... But if I did, it wouldn't all fit on the pictures...

I'll try though...

So which, smaller or faded more?

beline

urbanaries wrote:

uh, hard to tell, because your watermark is as distractingly huge as it is undreadable.

Do you mean unreadable? Gah! Fiiiiine, I'll change the font... And I'll tone it down while I'm at it...

wxwax

I like this one a lot, except for the light on the guitar, it's distracting.

wxwax

And I like the lighting a lot on this one, very atmospheric. It's his expression that's not working for me, and the headroom.

Seneca

50% Sepia you say...? Wow looks good...what software do you have that you can balance that out?

beline

Apple Aperture baby. Its a beautiful thing...

salazar

The lighting and 50% sepia seem to work really well in all of these for me except for a few shadows. #1, 3 & 4 seem to bring out your subjects character the best (unless he really is as dopey as he looks in #2). Perhaps you could dodge up the area under the hat in #3 as the hat shadow on his eyes takes away from the impact of the photo. His expression in #5 is lost to the hat shadow too, and the light coloured ceiling is distracting. I'll second the note about the reflection of your softbox/whatever making the white area on the guitar in #4. Can you clone it out? Tricky I suppose.

damonff

I think your lighting effects/sepia treatment is great...find your mask...do it!

beline

mask?

damonff wrote:

I think your lighting effects/sepia treatment is great...find your mask...do it!