Haven't had a chance to shoot much (or even visit FM forums) lately. Both myself and my wife have been a bit busier at our day jobs. But got a chance today to visit a Civil War re-enactment at the Huntington Beach Central Park, and among other things, took a few portrait shots.
All taken w/ Nikon D4 with 70-200/2.8II under natural light. Processed in LR5 and Silver Efex Pro.
As always, would appreciate any C&C...
Really good in all respects. This series of excellent portraits would have been more understandable to me if you have offered a few images with greater depth of field. It seems that there was a lot of interesting content in the background , but I didn't really understand the greater context.
But the individual portraits and your toning are very atmospheric.
John Caldwell wrote:
Really good in all respects. This series of excellent portraits would have been more understandable to me if you have offered a few images with greater depth of field. It seems that there was a lot of interesting content in the background , but I didn't really understand the greater context.
But the individual portraits and your toning are very atmospheric.
John Caldwell
Thanks John for the comment... For this series, we had focused on the portraits. I will post a few wider shots below...
Phantom Medic wrote:
Very good work. How or what conditions enabled you to get such good light under the brims?
Thanks Oscar for the comment. It is a combination of dialing a bit of positive exposure compensation (in Aperture Priority mode) and bringing up the shadows in LR5.
Just terrific! Thank You!
Well done sir, Thank you for sharing
Very fine images. The have a sense of history, of being there, of sadness.
Thank you Richard, tbargranch, and Tony for your kind comments.
Unfortunately, we did not have a good vantage point to take good action shots from the battle itself, but still managed to capture a couple of cannon fire shots:
I like these a lot, particularly the PP. However, the two photos with the soldiers wearing sunglasses don't work in this series. To my knowledge sunglasses weren't around then.
henrynvirginia wrote:
I like these a lot, particularly the PP. However, the two photos with the soldiers wearing sunglasses don't work in this series. To my knowledge sunglasses weren't around then.
I agree. Even worse are a couple of shots I have from them while talking on their cell phones
