Hey Guys,
Had a quick little e-session this morning, and had a pretty good time. I hadn't shot in a little over a month due to the arrival of my daughter! It was good being back out, as I've been shooting my daughter 24/7... As always, C&C is appreciated.
(Thanks to Sam for the hand shot and to any others I borrowed shots from)

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Good stuff. Looks like you had a good setting for these. 1, 6, 14, and 16 are my favs. #2 doesn't work for me though, at all. Subject's are in dead center, guy is not in focus, but the truck on the left is in focus... just not working. I'm not really feeling #10 much either, but maybe that's just me. I think if you turn the exposure down a tad bit on #12, it would be better. Overall, great work. It looks as if the couple had fun at the shoot

Sahid Limon wrote:
Good stuff. Looks like you had a good setting for these. 1, 6, 14, and 16 are my favs. #2 doesn't work for me though, at all. Subject's are in dead center, guy is not in focus, but the truck on the left is in focus... just not working. I'm not really feeling #10 much either, but maybe that's just me. I think if you turn the exposure down a tad bit on #12, it would be better. Overall, great work. It looks as if the couple had fun at the shoot

+1

Some of these are soft.

I think they subjects have great connectionwith each other but the majority are OOF.

A lot of these just seem out of focus. You might want to find out the cause of this. It could be a lens that needs calibration or you not shooting with enough shutter speed or AF problems with your body. Your compositions and framing have definitely improved over the past year. Great effort!

#17 is very nice in concept and execution.

hey, j-compositionally, these are light years from what you were doing just a number of months ago-however, i have to agree with the others-focus is quite off in several of these-in shot 2, i wouldn't call it soft, really-that's OOF-6 and 7 seem front focused-a few other thoughts:

shot 1-very nice execution of this shot (your best effort of this shot to date IMHO)-like the blue toning

shot 8-nice-i would suggest for the future, to put him slightly farther to camera right in the frame

as to centered images, they can provide a great impact but there are a few too many in this set (i.e., 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15)

overall, your best e-session-hope this is useful, man

daniel

Wow. Wow. J-funk, your killing it man. Daniel provided some great advice. I felt the exat same way. The posing and over all compesitions of these images is superb. It's why I voted you most improved FMer. It's really leaps and bound above most all your work. I think you know that.
That said the back focused images can't go unnoticed. You have to ask what happened. Camera shake? Bad lenses? Bad eyes, (God forbid).

I seen 1. done a million times but your colors are fab here. Way to lok out for that wall against her red coat. Perfect.

14. Great rendition bud.

15 is actually a Hoffer shot. I did it as well. We can both thank the Hoff.

16 is fab and the PP is over the top. (Clone the dust)

~Sam