Fantastic cormie portraits, Mitesh; great detail, beautiful light, and terrific work in post (just enough of a vignette to draw attention to the main subject). Like Geoff, I like the first one better; there's more of a sense of interaction and intrigue. It's a matter of taste, but one of the things that I find so beautiful about cormies are those intense turquoise-colored eyes; you might consider accentuating that sense a bit more. TFS.
Plinian wrote:
... terrific work in post (just enough of a vignette to draw attention to the main subject). Like Geoff, I like the first one better;
Greg
Mitesh
I agree #1 is the better pose. Excellent work
As to the vignette, did you do that in post? Or is it the natural vignette of the 800 on a full frame sensor?
acjd wrote:
As to the vignette, did you do that in post? Or is it the natural vignette of the 800 on a full frame sensor?
Hi acjd-
The vignette was added in post, about -15 amount and I think 80 on feathering. The lens does vignette on FF when shot wide open. Probably the only thing that I dislike about the lens is the long MFD because it necessitates using extension tubes which really accentuate the corner vignetting in a not-so-pleasing way.
- OH and 
Love the BG and energy of light and how it hits the cheek and eye on this one and the head tilt and look has meaning and interest to me.
