More senior picture practice

joshhuntnm

I am reading a book--The Moment It Clicks--great read. There is a chapter called, "If you want to take great pictures, stand in front of something interesting." I guess the portrait paraphrase of this is, "If you want to take pretty pictures, stand in front of pretty people." Kalyn seemed hard to take a really bad picture of. CC welcome


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Chazman

Hey Josh, I just got that book yesterday. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Chuck

beetle8

definitely attractive, great shots,
what's with the blurry foot? It seems like like it should be in the dof.

joshhuntnm

beetle8 wrote:

definitely attractive, great shots,
what's with the blurry foot? It seems like like it should be in the dof.

good eye. It is the magic of photoshop. I thought it would draw more attention to her. No?

evoryware

I'm not on a good monitor today but this is one of my favorite sets from you.
Can we see it without the blurred foot?
From that perspective I don't think you need to blur any parts of her.
Only thing I'm not fond of is the nose shadow in #2 and the green weeds in her face.

joshhuntnm

behold the feet!

evoryware wrote:

I'm not on a good monitor today but this is one of my favorite sets from you.
Can we see it without the blurred foot?
From that perspective I don't think you need to blur any parts of her.
Only thing I'm not fond of is the nose shadow in #2 and the green weeds in her face.

thanks for the kind words. I agree about the shadow. for the FYI file that shadow is coming from a the gold side of the reflector. I toned down the yellowness some--thought probably not enough for some eyes. Dang those reflectors can cast some light. She is sitting in total shade with the reflector coming right at her.

Oh, the foot. I think you might be right about this one too. sometimes I can get too happy with PS



by the way, this was the actual shot. I thought it was unusable. Really windy day in New Mexico.

beetle8

much better, the fact is with the blurry foot that's all I could look at.
This location also looks like it would be a great place for some shooting of the set. I'm intrigued by all the charm of the scene.
in #3I like the blowing hair however I think you did the right thing in this one by removing it.

maybe tighter on the bottom and right

Scott_Quier

Not loving the yellow/gold color cast in the first two or the fly-away hair in #3.

Love the lighitng in #5 though - I love using the sun as a hair light as it's so easy and give great results. Not so sure about the blurry foot though.

#7 is also quite nice.

And, you're right - I don't think you can take a bad photo of this young lady!