Wanted to share some from a recent session. I loved this one because Mom was totally like "I want a flower headband!" She rocked it.
I recently purchased a backdrop roller system and it has changed my life! I can hang 4 canvas drops now and raise/lower them with the touch of a button. I've used it for a few sessions and am just so tickled about it.
As always, thank you for looking and for your comments and critique. <3
As a portrait photographer for almost 40 years, I must say your style of lighting and tonality is wonderful. My only critique would be to have your facial retouching of the woman match her hands more. I myself would back off the facial retouching and add (ever so slightly) retouching to the hands, so it looks more balanced. Other than that these are spectacular. Glad you are enjoying your new backdrops.
Cphoto1954 wrote:
As a portrait photographer for almost 40 years, I must say your style of lighting and tonality is wonderful. My only critique would be to have your facial retouching of the woman match her hands more. I myself would back off the facial retouching and add (ever so slightly) retouching to the hands, so it looks more balanced. Other than that these are spectacular. Glad you are enjoying your new backdrops.
I have to agree on these notes, but also agreed that this is spectacular portrait photography regardless.
Cphoto1954 wrote:
As a portrait photographer for almost 40 years, I must say your style of lighting and tonality is wonderful. My only critique would be to have your facial retouching of the woman match her hands more. I myself would back off the facial retouching and add (ever so slightly) retouching to the hands, so it looks more balanced. Other than that these are spectacular. Glad you are enjoying your new backdrops.
Agree on the hands. In some of the shots the age of her hands is obvious, so you might want to either smooth the skin of the hands a bit, or perhaps tone down the processing on the mom's skin to more closely match her hands.
Otherwise, as usual, GREAT WORK. I have so much to learn.
sifpandor wrote:
Agree on the hands. In some of the shots the age of her hands is obvious, so you might want to either smooth the skin of the hands a bit, or perhaps tone down the processing on the mom's skin to more closely match her hands.
Otherwise, as usual, GREAT WORK. I have so much to learn.
--Mark
If there's anything about the face or hands that stands out, it's not so much age as the purple color looking different from the face skin possibly. Sometimes it's processing. But makeup can put that beyond control sometimes. But the aged hand skin seems subtle unless one scrutinizes.
In the first images, the expressions are almost void, but the following images seem to express more personality. There is almost pathos in a few.
