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Todd
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Sarah

here is a portrait from yesterday. This was my first time using a 40” diffuser over the subject at an angle similar to a soft box that I normally would use. I think I did well on this, many complements on it. I used my Nikon D850 with the Nikon 105mm f/1.4 @ f/1.4. I probably could have used f/2.8 but I was playing with the wide open thing that most are doing now. I suppose there is a time and place for wide open, it seems to have worked ok here. I like the soft light from the diffuser. It was about 18” above here head.

Nov 24, 2017 at 09:53 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Sarah

Now, Mona Lisa with a camera instead of a paint brush on canvas! My, how times change!

---- DonM2

Nov 24, 2017 at 10:52 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Sarah

I can see why you get compliments on this!

Nov 24, 2017 at 11:45 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Sarah

Thanks Don...

DonM2 wrote:
Now, Mona Lisa with a camera instead of a paint brush on canvas! My, how times change!

---- DonM2

Nov 25, 2017 at 02:01 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Sarah

Thank Emie....

Ernie Aubert wrote:
I can see why you get compliments on this!

Nov 25, 2017 at 02:02 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Sarah

Nice shot, but as you noted, you could have used f/2.8 for a bit more DOF given the pose she's in.

Nov 25, 2017 at 09:03 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Sarah

Beautiful

Diane

Nov 25, 2017 at 11:02 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Sarah

While this is nice, it has hot spots that are not to my taste. Cheeks, chin and nose on the left are too hot for me. You posted a later one for the little girl, that in my opinion was just about perfect. I loved that shot.
John

Dec 01, 2017 at 11:40 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Sarah

Yeah John,
I saw those. I think they were caused by a preset I was using.. I should reprocess the image without it and see what I get. I knew it was there, should have fixed it, but I’ll do it later... got impatient I guess. I later realized spot metering her face would have been good to do as well. It wasn’t a paid gig, so I’m glad of that. She didn’t notice, but getting the image near perfect is and should be my main goal... thanks for the reply though.

Todd

SCJohn wrote:
While this is nice, it has hot spots that are not to my taste. Cheeks, chin and nose on the left are too hot for me. You posted a later one for the little girl, that in my opinion was just about perfect. I loved that shot.
John

Dec 01, 2017 at 01:42 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Sarah

I like it! Thanks for sharing.

Dec 01, 2017 at 07:35 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Sarah

Lovely image. I like the harmony between her eyes and the nicely blurred background. Yes, more dof to get her hair within the dof would have been nice. I am not crazy about the pose of her body with the back of her hand facing the camera and, to my eye, her awkwardly angled left shoulder. I think the pattern in her dress is distracting. I would like to see just a head and shoulder portrait of your subject.

Dec 01, 2017 at 07:40 PM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Sarah

Great work, perfectly subtle about of light. Just enough to make the image pop

Dec 12, 2017 at 05:29 PM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Sarah

The one thing that jumps out at me is that the focus seems off. It looks front focused so that her eyes aren't quite sharp and the pattern of her shirt becomes more prominent. I think that if the focus had been spot on (hard at 1.4) perhaps the other poster wouldn't have been as distracted by the pattern of her blouse.
The pose doesn't bother me at all, and I like the colors in comparison to the background. I would also say that you nailed the lighting with the diffuser. Nice shot!

Dec 22, 2017 at 07:38 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Sarah

pjbuehner wrote:
The one thing that jumps out at me is that the focus seems off. It looks front focused so that her eyes aren't quite sharp and the pattern of her shirt becomes more prominent. I think that if the focus had been spot on (hard at 1.4) perhaps the other poster wouldn't have been as distracted by the pattern of her blouse.
The pose doesn't bother me at all, and I like the colors in comparison to the background. I would also say that you nailed the lighting with the diffuser. Nice shot!

Thanks for your input.... I know f/1.4 is hard sometimes, I used continuous AF on her eye and it looks focused to me. Here is a tight crop of her face. A few stray hairs, I’ll clean the up someday. Her shirt is blurred at the shoulder, I guess it’s hard to see on the forum and low res.

Dec 22, 2017 at 09:34 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Sarah

I stand corrected. Forgive me. In the smaller image, it appeared to me to be off. Clearly, it isn't. As I said in my original post, nice shot!
Best,
Peter

Dec 23, 2017 at 09:03 AM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Sarah

There have been some reasoned critiques made and I agree with some. Still, I think this is a lovely portrait.

Dec 23, 2017 at 09:19 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Sarah

Wow, very sharp at full aperture blow up. And yes, you could probably also get a little more DOF with f2.8 and still blur the background. Nice soft light.

Dec 23, 2017 at 05:37 PM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Sarah

Well done. You nailed the focus and imho great dof.
Two nits....
Remove about half of of the dead space above her head
And, clone out the handful of single stray hairs on her left (viewers right) cheek.
Please share next PP version.

Dec 25, 2017 at 01:02 PM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Sarah

This is when you can play with aspect ratio. Instead of 2:3, 3:4 will crop out some of the dead space above and below without narrowing the width. And get you ready for a nice 5x7 , 8x10.

Jan 19, 2018 at 01:36 AM


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