Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
Here's a quick edit on one to give you an idea of what I mean ...
http://i49.tinypic.com/28vpf.jpg
Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
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Colin Southern
Here's a quick edit on one to give you an idea of what I mean ...
Great! Colin, thanks. I'd always thought that I shouldn't crop portions of the head. "One has to try to see it work!"
Anyway, my monitor is not calibrated. Default setting
Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
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lumicks
Great! Colin, thanks. I'd always thought that I shouldn't crop portions of the head. "One has to try to see it work!"
Anyway, my monitor is not calibrated. Default setting
You'll see heads cropped off all the time in the magazines -- quite normal. Don't worry, everyone knows it's really still there :)
You definitely need to get your monitor calibrated and profiled -- otherwise your edits are just a lottery. Do you feel lucky today?
Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
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Colin Southern
You'll see heads cropped off all the time in the magazines -- quite normal. Don't worry, everyone knows it's really still there :)
Here are my attempts:
http://i1340.photobucket.com/albums/...ps85733f65.jpg
http://i1340.photobucket.com/albums/...ps83a1e499.jpg
http://i1340.photobucket.com/albums/...psa782957f.jpg
Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
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lumicks
Getting there - you need to crop it to emphasise the face though, not the side of the head.
Images are still very blurry though. Are you shooting RAW or JPEG? What sharpening are you applying?
Try shooting horizontal to give your subject so space to look into. eg:
http://www.pbase.com/cjsouthern/imag...0/original.jpg
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Colin Southern
I'm using Adobe Lightroom 4 to sharpen the images. The images are in JPEG, though my camera can shoot RAW too.
I'm using a bridge camera (Lumix FZ200) with a 1/2.3 sensor size. Sharpness and IQ could be the issues. I've been trying to optimize its capability. Hope to have an DSLR someday.:o
But for now, I'm grateful for the lessons I've learned from you and from CiC.
Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
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lumicks
I'm using Adobe Lightroom 4 to sharpen the images. The images are in JPEG, though my camera can shoot RAW too.
I'm using a bridge camera (Lumix FZ200) with a 1/2.3 sensor size. Sharpness and IQ could be the issues. I've been trying to optimize its capability. Hope to have an DSLR someday.:o
But for now, I'm grateful for the lessons I've learned from you and from CiC.
It still should be able to get images sharper than this though - much sharper. I'd suggest doing some tests to see if we can pinpoint where the source of the problem is.
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Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
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Colin Southern
It still should be able to get images sharper than this though - much sharper. I'd suggest doing some tests to see if we can pinpoint where the source of the problem is.
Hi Colin, Justin,
On all four, the point sharpest focus is well behind where it should be - which is the nearest eye.
So whether the problem is an inappropriate focus mode, or a back focus issue (actually a faulty camera since the lens is fixed) I don't know - I suspect inappropriate focusing, or movement forward after focus lock. Worth more investigation.
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Hi dear friends. I recently discovered this great community and this is my first post. I have started for a little while a small pet photography business to fill up my weekends. The shot below is from a fair where we offered one image for free to be downloaded from our website, just to show people here what we can do.
For the below image: Nikon D600 | 70-300 | F/9 | ISO 160 | two strobes, one in softbox and one bounced lighting the dog, one light above in a shoot-through umbrella, one slave flash on the background
http://www.petstarfoto.ro/wp-content...6/DSC_8253.jpg
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mihaich
Hi dear friends. I recently discovered this great community and this is my first post. I have started for a little while a small pet photography business to fill up my weekends. The shot below is from a fair where we offered one image for free to be downloaded from our website, just to show people here what we can do.
For the below image: Nikon D600 | 70-300 | F/9 | ISO 160 | two strobes, one in softbox and one bounced lighting the dog, one light above in a shoot-through umbrella, one slave flash on the background
http://www.petstarfoto.ro/wp-content...6/DSC_8253.jpg
Mihaich, welcome to CiC. I know nothing about dog portraits so shall leave comments to others.
In order to get a greater response to your post, you may wish to repost it in the people and pets part of the forum.
This particular thread "School of Portraiture" has very much focussed on portraits of people. But there are lots of dog lovers on CiC who will look at your photo if you give your post a label that indicates it has a dog.
Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
New here and hope I'm sharing this in proper forum. I am trying to infuse my portraiture with the visceral feeling I experience on location, but I feel my work is rather pedestrian at this juncture. Any feedback the community can offer will be most helpful and appreciated. Well it seems I cannot upload from mobile device. Hold that thought until I'm at desktop.
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Colin Southern
Love this one http://portalpark.net/10204/16/w.png
Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
I love portraiture and it looks like this thread could use a little boost.
So here is one of my friend the Goddess....
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7365/...7ef231_c_d.jpg
here's my idea of a portrait
[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/xpppaw.jpg[/IMG]this is one of the 2 "girls" next door, I was dog sitting & used the opportunity to wait for the their rough housing to end, I mainly make macro images but this is a good capture, at least to me
Re: here's my idea of a portrait
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elfbob
[IMG]
http://i57.tinypic.com/xpppaw.jpg[/IMG]this is one of the 2 "girls" next door, I was dog sitting & used the opportunity to wait for the their rough housing to end, I mainly make macro images but this is a good capture, at least to me
Nicely done.
Re: "School of Portraiture" - Lesson 08 - Taking it to the next level ("The Reunion")
This is a very nice portraits. I wouldn't change nothing on this. I'm in school taking photography and I hope I can do this kind of portraits.
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conlizjay
This is a very nice portraits. I wouldn't change nothing on this. I'm in school taking photography and I hope I can do this kind of portraits.
Welcome Connie,
Looking forward to seeing some of your assignments.
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