Shot of my girl from today

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one of my favs.... still have a lot to learn, but if anyone wants to point out all the ways I've gone wrong, I promise I'll use it to get better! : )

Thanks!!

DJ-S1

It's a nice relaxed portrait of a cute young lady, not bad! It's a tad soft I think though. 1/6 exposure is pretty slow to hand hold without some blur. Next time try bumping your ISO up a bit (you were shooting at 100) and you will automagically get a faster shutter speed (because you were in Av mode).

Another thing to consider: at f2.8 you can get decent background blur (bokeh) to help isolate your subject, but you will need a bit more room between her and the foliage behind her to make this more effective.

Luckily you have a nice model to keep experimenting with!

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DJ-S1 wrote:

It's a nice relaxed portrait of a cute young lady, not bad! It's a tad soft I think though. 1/6 exposure is pretty slow to hand hold without some blur. Next time try bumping your ISO up a bit (you were shooting at 100) and you will automagically get a faster shutter speed (because you were in Av mode).

Another thing to consider: at f2.8 you can get decent background blur (bokeh) to help isolate your subject, but you will need a bit more room between her and the foliage behind her to make this more effective.

Luckily you have a nice model to keep experimenting with!

Thank you! I was experimenting with various settings with ISO and AP as well as full manual. This one just happened to have the best "look". It was sunset and I was fighting with available light. many, many thanks on the c&c