p.2 #1 · First Portraiture Shoot + Available Light
Sorry it took me so long to respond, but I've been really busy. I sure read all the comments and have to really thank you! This is the sort of criticism I was really looking for in different forums on the Internet (but only found here).
There are some really helpful hints and suggestions here that can and surely will help me do better in my next portraiture photoshoot. You can really see what I was kinda criticising in my initial post, cutting the hand, (i also couldnt get any detail into the blown sky, though the files were raw). As you see I was really fixed on kinda technical and static stuff stuff. I might buy a Tamron 70-200 2.8 and will be trying that for portraiture too. I hope that will iliminate the distortion issue, let me give the model more room to breathe, so a wider view, and still (due to the long focal length) get some nice bokeh in the background. What worries me tough is that I might stand like 30 feet away from teh model then
I will kinda go through some of the comments now and respond but i want to say thank you to every one who left a comment!!
@Steven Wylie
You are so darn right! With that new lens on my K20D i was seeking for sharp images and wanted to see that in the final results. I was really happy about the sharpness and was all stoked for the whole weekend. It is indeed true, that i cropped quite tightly so that the eyes would get relatively larger. I will remember that "room to breathe" and I am sure I have heard that before but i had forgotten about that. Also with that 17-50 2.8 it is actually not that easy to get the bokeh one i looking for, so framing tight getting in close is what i did to get some better bokeh. I will have to use an other lens to give the model more room to breathe. When I looked at the forum from my mobile to check the comments I was shocked to see that green tint on the pictures. On the computer the images looked fine, rather a warm light on the face. I was hoping it wasnt my mobile that calibrated better but it seems to be so. The result is that I will buy a Spyder 3 to calibrate my notebooks Monitor asap otherwise all the editing is just worth half the work! (I might just want to get a large external Screen anyways) Thanks for you comment!
@ESC in KC
Thank you, as i pointed out we had quite some fun. It was more of a lens test after all, no pressure to do good on either side, that may have helped
@Jim Rickards
Yes, the tree seems to be very popular and teh sky is blown. Def. good advice here, thank you!
@PoffPhoto
No fill light was used. But i did have to adjust the lighting of the raw files. I think I might still get some sort of 5in1 reflectors as they really dont cost much and will probably help a lot when the sky aint cloudy one day.
@cgardner
Thank you! Those hints are really helpful! I will try to find the flattering angle and pay more attention to the model looking up more when the eyes dont get enough light in. I will try to use longer focal lenghts from now on, i didnt pay attention to that. The other hints are really helpful, i have never heard those and that is what I am looking for, to learn about exactly that!
@JeffG
An 85 would be really nice but I will probably go with a 70-200 2.8 as I dont have a tele right now and need the versatility. The budget is also limited so special glass like an 85 will have to wait unfortunately. I guess the 70-200 2.8 should already serve me better!? Studying magazines and portraiture shots in general is a good idea, will do that definitely! Thank you!
