A grandmother

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I'd love some cc on this shot. I did a couple outdoor practice shots with this lovely lady. This is my favorite one - tell me what you think. The only pp I did was more contrast and some white balance (Oh - I put a slight vignette on it as well). Thanks for any and all advice - suggestions.


Thanks!

ShepsMom

Hi Angela, i like this photo, good composition, may be little bit of magenta going on. I'm not particulary liking her facial expression here, seems like sh'e not too happy . She has this "are we done yet?" look.

What made this your favorite? Just curious.

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ShepsMom wrote:

Hi Angela, i like this photo, good composition, may be little bit of magenta going on. I'm not particulary liking her facial expression here, seems like sh'e not too happy . She has this "are we done yet?" look.

What made this your favorite? Just curious.

Wow! You're dead on! All the other ones had an even worse - "I don't want to be here" look, . She doesn't like having her photo taken. I don't have a good monitor - just working off my laptop... so I can't see the magenta - but I'll tone it down! Thank you! And thank you for responding! BTW - this was not a planned photo really - just a practice shot.

Thank you!

saurora

She looks as if the light may have possibly been bothering her eyes as well as being uncomfortable having her photo taken. I agree it is a tiny bit magenta, although it looks like that could be her natural skin tone. I have lots of family members with pinkish skin tones. You say it's a practice shot, will you be doing more of her? I hope you will post your results. Good luck getting her to relax!!!

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saurora wrote:

She looks as if the light may have possibly been bothering her eyes as well as being uncomfortable having her photo taken. I agree it is a tiny bit magenta, although it looks like that could be her natural skin tone. I have lots of family members with pinkish skin tones. You say it's a practice shot, will you be doing more of her? I hope you will post your results. Good luck getting her to relax!!!

Thank you! I think that's a natural squint of the eyes, but it was bright out - so you could be right. I am hoping to do more shots of her. Thank you for the comment!!

Scott_Quier

Here's what I see:

The Good:

• The tree on the right is a nice framing element
• Sun provides a very nice highlights in her hair
• You did a good job of compensating for what looks to be backlighting from the sun (face is not in heavy shadow). It looks like you may have used some fill-flash? If so, you did it well.
• Pose is not square on to the camera (see this a lot in practice and snap shots)

The Not So Good:

• Bright spots along left edge of frame and above her head are distracting. Watch for these in your background. I see this problem in a lot of my shots so it's one of the first things I look for when reviewing photos.
• She may be turned too far away from the camera?
• Looking at her left shoulder - seems to be pulled unnaturally back or hunched up just a bit. Either way, she doesn't look relaxed/comfortable.
• Color in her face - the triangle of her cheek seems to be a completely different color from that of the rest of her face, almost like you had two different color lights in play here.

As a practice shot, it's doing it's job well - showing you areas to improve upon for the time when you do the real thing.

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Scott_Quier wrote:

Here's what I see:

The Good:

• The tree on the right is a nice framing element
• Sun provides a very nice highlights in her hair
• You did a good job of compensating for what looks to be backlighting from the sun (face is not in heavy shadow). It looks like you may have used some fill-flash? If so, you did it well.
• Pose is not square on to the camera (see this a lot in practice and snap shots)

The Not So Good:

• Bright spots along left edge of frame and above her head are distracting. Watch for these in your background. I see this problem in a lot of my shots so it's one of the first things I look for when reviewing photos.
• She may be turned too far away from the camera?
• Looking at her left shoulder - seems to be pulled unnaturally back or hunched up just a bit. Either way, she doesn't look relaxed/comfortable.
• Color in her face - the triangle of her cheek seems to be a completely different color from that of the rest of her face, almost like you had two different color lights in play here.

As a practice shot, it's doing it's job well - showing you areas to improve upon for the time when you do the real thing.

Thank you Scott!! The good / bad detail... excellent! Thank you so much for taking the time to really critique it! It's very much appreciated. Your bad list... all things I've never really thought of before - so this HELPS me a ton! Again - thanks to all for the comments!