My daughter's latest portraits

Carloskbco

Always trying to improve, these shots were taken this morning with my Oly E300 50mm + 1.4EC, converts lens to a 70mm, using my homemade reflector white side...








Comments are welcome, good,bad or indiferent



Carlos

System

lovely girl-

I particularly like the first, with the backlighting-

pyrtek

I really like these. She seems to be a natural in front of the camera.

There is, however, a very strong red cast on all of these. If it's intended, then
please ignore the rest of this message. If it's not, then perhaps it would be
good to neutralize it. For example:

BEFORE:




AFTER:

Carloskbco

Thanks Pyrtek

pyrtek wrote:

I really like these. She seems to be a natural in front of the camera.

There is, however, a very strong red cast on all of these. If it's intended, then
please ignore the rest of this message. If it's not, then perhaps it would be
good to neutralize it. For example:

BEFORE:




AFTER:

Yes, she seems to be relaxed for pics...

About the cast, I always take a WB reading with an Expodisc and in my monitors the shots look with no cast...I will check them with the one at work. BTW your removal makes the shots bluish to me !



Carlos

Icebear

I agree that there's a reddish cast. Look at the teeth. They look brown (like mine) not nice and white like a little girl's should. I also agree that the revision looks too blue. With your Expodisc, make certain you're pointing it from the subject, back at the camera and not toward the subject. You prolly know this, I'm just grasping at straws, trying to understand where the red cast came from. It looks that way on both my CRT and (calibrated) flat panel monitors.

She really is a cutie.

LittleLew

After adding judicious cyan
Lovely little girl, reminds me of my grand-daughter

LittleLew

Lighten mid tones with levels, added some cyan.

Carloskbco

Thanks LittleLew
I'm going to check the white balance in my RAW files, maybe I played with them, instead of just leaving them at the Expodisc readings...I don't know.

Carlos

Carloskbco

I have replaced the images...
in my galleries, so, when they are loaded on this thread, you will be getting the corrected images...

I just worked the files and made sure the WB was left "As shot" in ACR...later I did the Skin tone adjustment suggested by smugmug.

Thanks for your comments and for bringing to my attention the color cast to my images...



Carlos