i'm not a frequent poster but i'd like to know what you think about these portraits
all of them are with D700 + Sigma 85 1.4 natural light
all comments and critiques
Very nice. 6 is my fav. If it's not natural light, I would add separation light on her hair though or find non-dark background because her hair is dark.
Nice portraits. #1,2,6 and 8 are my favorites. But why mention the lens? Is it important? Anyway, there is so much post processing going (too much for my taste) on that using these images as a (test)reference for Sigma 85 IQ is pretty useless IMHO.
@Daan B, i wrote the lens name because when searching by topics i thought it might be useful for some others, pp is used in every lens but amount of it differs for everybody's taste.
@jfinite, i tried to clean up the stray hair but ruined the image i'm not good at removing by clone stamp tool.
@friscoron, some of them are candids like 5 and 8 and very little pp i wanted to include these photos as well.
@fsiagian, all of them are natural light but you're right a liitle light on hair would be better
Use a very, very small healing brush, the one where you can sample nearby pixels (not the spot healing brush). Alt-Click next to the hair, and trace over the hair slowly, releasing and resampling where the image colors change (like the transition from cheek to lips).
Good job on these. Here's a few nits and suggestions.
#1 and #2- The arms lead out of the frame in these. #1 could be cropped to H&S to fix it.
#3 The unattached hand bothers me a tiny bit.
#4. Notice how this pose is so much better than #1 & #2. The viewer's eye looks at her face, then travels down the arm which leads right back to the face. Very effective way to keep the viewer looking at the subject.
#6. I suggest cropping some of the chest area. It's larger in area than her head so it's getting too much attention. (Now if you had some cleavage down there, I might not want the crop, but the bare blurred chest isn't doing much.)
Love this set. Really nice, and it's not the lens.
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She is just flat out beautiful IMHO 