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belle7 Offline Image Upload: On p.1 #1 · My first attempt at homemade studio Here is a picture of my daughter. I have a shoestring budget and therefore have only done outdoor photography. This is my first try with inexpensive substitutions for lighting. I would love any advise on things I can add to my collection. I have aluminum clamp lamps, a car sun shade, a white muslin sheet and a 500 watt work light for the hairlights. I have two umbrellas on the way to me and I plan on making some bookends out of foam core this weekend. Aug 07, 2008 at 09:57 PM

Scott Stoness Offline Image Upload: On p.1 #2 · My first attempt at homemade studio Portraits are not my thing but my observations are: 1) The picture looks grainy - is that because you did not have enough light - what was your ISO? 2) The picture looks orange casted - you can fix this in photoshop - easily if you used raw? I suggest shooting in raw 3) The tip of her nose looks a bit overexposed likely because you were struggling between underexposing the right shadowed side and the brightly lit side. You also have a flash - turn it down low if its on your camera or bouce it off the roof etc to reduce the extremes; Your daughter is very photogenic - keep on trying but I would leave more space on the left where she is looking and less on the right where she is not. Rotate her body and head oppositely if you want to crop less body off. Good luck and remember - i know less than you do about lighting. Aug 08, 2008 at 12:37 AM

belle7 Offline Image Upload: On p.1 #3 · My first attempt at homemade studio Thanks! You are right about the graininess. I was shooting low light indoor photography before this and forgot to change the ISO. It was on 1600. I did some noise reduction in photoshop and loss a degree of sharpness as a result. I'm looking forward to experimenting more once I get my bookends built and my umbrellas in. I'll set ISO to 200. I did shoot in raw and did auto correct for the white balance in photoshop raw, but thought it was a bit blue so I upped the temp a bit. I may have gone a little too far with the warmth. I'm hoping the umbrellas help with the lighting problems. Yeah, I was looking at it after the fact thinking that I needed to do either a profile or be able to fully see both eyes. Should this sort of pic go on the people section? I'm new here. I wasn't sure being this forum specifically said "critique". Thanks for the pointers! I really appreciate it. Aug 08, 2008 at 02:18 PM

Barry Pehlman Offline Image Upload: On p.1 #4 · My first attempt at homemade studio I would turn her head so her nose falls within the right cheek which will also show more of the right eye. Then get rid of all the conflicting things near the face, including the hand, and hair from the back, and on the forehead. This will make a cleaner profile. A pure white background is a matter of choice, but the picture would be better served with an fast aperture blurring the background if outside and adding some color at the same time. BTW: There are photographers who adapt their lighting to the surroundings without studio equipment. This could have been easily done with the sun filtered through a medium sized diffusion disc (on the left as shown) and a black reflector close to her cheek nearist the camera - aka. subtractive lighting. Aug 12, 2008 at 06:29 PM

AuntiPode Offline Image Upload: On p.1 #5 · My first attempt at homemade studio I've had ponder the image several times over several days. I like it. It's a good example of composition that works in a square frame. It has a peaceful, thoughtful and perhaps wistful expression that well fits a young woman of her age. The following comments are very minor considerations. I notice a slight mottling in the shadow area on her neck. It may be only an artifact of converting the image to jpeg for posting. If it's in the original, you might try the PS despeckle filter to smooth the skin tone, perhaps followed by the unsharp mask to approximate the original sharpness or perhaps one of the various noise reduction utilities. There is a curl of hair beyond her fingers that seem to float without connection to her scalp. To me it's slightly distracting. You might try to either recover some of the hair lost to highlight to show a faint connection, or perhaps clone it out entirely. It's a very minor nit, but you might find a change there at least a very small improvement. Edited on Aug 12, 2008 at 10:24 PM Aug 12, 2008 at 10:22 PM

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