2 new portrait attempts
Xandertures
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I realize they are still full of flaws, but I think I am on the right track with fixing my focus issues. When holding the camera in portrait position, I chose the upper most focal point rather than doing what I was trying before which was focus and then recompose. In all of the photos I took, the eyes were completely in focus.
In this first one I probably should have brought her shoulder down to show more of her chin/neck.
The hair in the second one is kind of wild and would have looked better if it was more in line. There is also a bad shadow below her left eye.I tried some techniques from a PSE magazine by adding a blurred layer on top of the background and then erasing the facial features, leaving them sharp.
All in all, for a D50, no real backdrop and one on camera mounted SB-800, I thought they came out nice. She definitely likes them!
Thanks for looking
edit: photo 2 removed for editing. Thanks for the feedback. Obviously I have a lot to learn.
In this first one I probably should have brought her shoulder down to show more of her chin/neck.
The hair in the second one is kind of wild and would have looked better if it was more in line. There is also a bad shadow below her left eye.I tried some techniques from a PSE magazine by adding a blurred layer on top of the background and then erasing the facial features, leaving them sharp.
All in all, for a D50, no real backdrop and one on camera mounted SB-800, I thought they came out nice. She definitely likes them!
Thanks for looking
edit: photo 2 removed for editing. Thanks for the feedback. Obviously I have a lot to learn.
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I think you are right about photo #1. Her chin disappears into her shoulder. I think you also could have turned her a little more toward the camera.
I really don't care for the second one at all. She seems to have no color at all. At the minimum I think you should have pushed the saturation. Also the skin looks really uneven to the point of being blotchy. There have been lots of posts regarding skin treatments. Your model also might want to consider another shade of lipstick.
Here is a 2nd attempt at the last one. I changed the skin tone, tried to change the lip color as much as possible and also removed the shadow next to the nose. I still have to work on the blotchy skin, but honestly the model has blotchy skin in real life so it's hard to work around. Anyone have any tips?