Number three is pretty unflattering. You need to be careful in how you photograph this model's neck; I think the top down and straight-on perspectives are far more flattering than the "bottom up" perspective.
I agree that some of the poses aren't great for her neck, but as for the softness issue, which is minor, make sure you are resizing and then sharpening again or at least using bicubic sharper in photoshop when you resize images, as resizing images tends to mess with sharpness all by itself.
PHOTOBUCKET sucks for hosting images. Especially linking them into the forums
like this, all of them look slightly out of focus. Something to do with how
Photobucket compresses the images I guess. I had the same problem.
I personally like #2, and I agree with what was said about #3 and also #6. Shooting from a lower angle on people that don't weigh 90 lbs soaking wet calls attention to things that most people would rather not be aware of.
I don't think sharpness is the first problem to worry about here.
You're not helping her figure at all by shooting all these images with nothing longer than 50mm... It's too wide a FL and creates an unflatering perspective.
If she's a friend get her back and do a test.
Shoot her waist up with the 35mm lens and then put on a nice long lens like a 200mm or so... frame her the same (ie. waist up) and see the difference.
The light on the first image is nice, but the fill (flash) could be warmed a little to more closely match the sun on her hair.
The 2nd has a nicer perspective because of the high angle but turn her a tad more to remove the dapled light of her chin.
Snaga wrote:
I don't think sharpness is the first problem to worry about here.
You're not helping her figure at all by shooting all these images with nothing longer than 50mm... It's too wide a FL and creates an unflatering perspective.
If she's a friend get her back and do a test.
Shoot her waist up with the 35mm lens and then put on a nice long lens like a 200mm or so... frame her the same (ie. waist up) and see the difference.
The light on the first image is nice, but the fill (flash) could be warmed a little to more closely match the sun on her hair.
The 2nd has a nicer perspective because of the high angle but turn her a tad more to remove the dapled light of her chin....Show more →
Good point here on the focal length. Lens distortion sets in and enlarges parts of the body closest to the lens. The hips in the railroad shot are an example.
Jim : when reducing a pciture, I do the following, may be it can help you
* Make 2 identical layers of the small format picture
* Apply a "sharper" filter to the layer above ( the first one on the list in Photoshop CS4). This will genrally give you an excessive sharp image
* adjust the level of sharpness by using the opacity slider of the second layer. Usuall values between 30 and 60% work well
I utilize the high pass sharpening method myself, where I duplicate the original photo, apply the high pass filter to the top layer (filter -> other -> High Pass), set that layer's blending to "overlay". From here, you need to adjust the opacity of the top layer in order to tone down the sharpening effect. I usually go with 40% as a safe amount.
I like to utilize this sharpening technique at a LARGER resolution, because when I apply it to smaller resolution photos, the sharpness tends to look excessive. When I resize in photoshop, I actually avoid Bicubic Sharper because its rendering of high contrast lines was harsh in my eyes. The standard bicubic resize is better IMO. My webserver uses a lagrange resize filter with imagemagick, which produces an attractive looking image (in my eyes).
valerie seems to go around here alot posting negative, unhelpful comments. Alot of people are trying to learn and post with the knowledge that maybe we are going to hear not so good comments. But, with the not so good comments should be some reasoning so that we can learn instead of just getting 'slapped'.
sorry, but everyone is capable of seeing with a critical eye and deleting the unworthy shots - it's a great advantage of digital photography. I do it all the time.
