A few from today.

[Evertking]

All were taken with a Canon 6D, 135 mmf2 and lit with a AD600 and backlight was a gelled speedlight.
My wife and daughter.


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[Shadowman]

Nice fantasy look.

[ccphoto]

I like the lighting in all three but I have issues with the framing of all three. For your daughter, and she's quite the little beauty, I'd like to see a bit more ground and a bit less top and shifted a bit more toward the left (her right) as her eyes are looking more toward the right side of the frame.

For your wife's pose, perhaps a bit less bottom area (1/2" -3/8" less) and perhaps tone some of the yellow out of the backlight.

In the last shot, while I see some rather famous photographers getting away with posing to the far right (or left) of a frame while leaving lots of negative space, in this framing it doesn't work for me because of the "busyness" of the background. If you had moved her two feet to her right, it would still serve the framing nicely and allow a proper "look-out-of-the-frame" eye contact, not just for her, but for the viewer as well.

In all three, but more so in the first two, I might tend to knock down the reds a tad.

[Manfred M]

Mike - the thumbnails don't really do justice to your work, so I edited your posting so that larger images appear. That should generate more / better comments. It takes a few more steps than your current posting method, but is worth the effort. Numbering or titling the individual shots also makes it easier to discuss them.

What modifier did you use on the AD600? You are getting fairly quick drop light off, so assume it was fairly small and just out of frame for the first two shots. The gelling is definitely effective and adds a nice warm glow the the scene.

All the shots are good, but could use a bit of a tweak. I tend to prefer having my subjects standing at a an angle to the camera, but don't always do so.

Image 1 - tiny bit too hot (overexposed) for my taste.

Image 2 - the gelled speedlight coming in on the top right is adding an unwanted distraction to the image and is pulling the viewer's attention away from your subject.

Image 3 - this is one that does not work for me either. Getting the balance between the subject and the other content is critical. You haven't achieved good balance here. Cropping the image to do so would be worth considering.

Getting your subject to look into the frame rather than out of it would strengthen this shot too.