NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - Archive

[Antonio Correia]

Just one I took of my sisters daughter the other day. Brought a new lens (EF 24-105mm F4 L USM), so was just trying it out.

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Thank you Richard for posting here and congratulations for the new lens

Your picture looks fine and she is a young cute little girl
However, there are certain points I would like to comment.
You could for example clone the little yellow area at the top right, while somehow darkening the lower left one on the left side of the frame. She is leaned to the sofa (I think) but it shouldn't be that bright.
And... brighten up her brown eyes. she deserves it. Be careful, don't over do it
Thank you again

[Ricko]

Thank you Richard for posting here and congratulations for the new lens

Your picture looks fine and she is a young cute little girl
However, there are certain points I would like to comment.
You could for example clone the little yellow area at the top right, while somehow darkening the lower left one on the left side of the frame. She is leaned to the sofa (I think) but it shouldn't be that bright.
And... brighten up her brown eyes. she deserves it. Be careful, don't over do it
Thank you again

NP thanks for the feed back, always welcome!

[Alis]

What pleases me mot in this picture is that you have framed him within a frame.
He really is in action

Thanks, Antonio!

[Alis]

Now, is it still a portrait if you turn your back to the camera?

[Antonio Correia]

Now, is it still a portrait if you turn your back to the camera?

Sure is
And with this shallow DOF...

You have done it in Photoshop or is it just the 5D with the macro lens wide opened ?

I tend to believe more towards this solution...

Nice and well done Black and white conversion

[Alis]

Sure is
And with this shallow DOF...

You have done it in Photoshop or is it just the 5D with the macro lens wide opened ?

I tend to believe more towards this solution...

Nice and well done Black and white conversion

Thanks, Antonio!

About the depth of field, I do a lot of tricks in Photoshop, but for some reason, never liked to simulate shallow depth of field in PP. Just me. No, this one is real...

[Alis]

[Antonio Correia]

Excuse Alis but I don't like this one very much... Sorry

I don't like neither the light he is under nor the frame.
Sorry my friend but I prefer to be honest with you.
I do know you understand I posture.

[Alis]

Excuse Alis but I don't like this one very much... Sorry

I don't like neither the light he is under nor the frame.
Sorry my friend but I prefer to be honest with you.
I do know you understand I posture.

LOL! You broke my heart, Antonio!

Of course, I understand. Sometimes, it is hard to get to the subject, so this is the way to do it, like taking photos of prisoners behind the bar, it is a very important skill, isn't it?

About the light, it was under really bad harsh sublight. I remember I used CPL but apparently it did not help that much. Then I adjusted it a lot in PS.

Please keep being honest, Antonio! I will delete your thread if you are not

[Alis]

Excuse Alis but I don't like this one very much... Sorry

I don't like neither the light he is under nor the frame.
Sorry my friend but I prefer to be honest with you.
I do know you understand I posture.

How do you like this one, Antonio?

[Antonio Correia]

How do you like this one, Antonio?

Oh yes ! This is something at your level, yes.
I do like the shallow DoF very much.

It's with the 50mm f/1.2 L USM on the 5D Mark II ?

I am not the kind of guy to be jealous - I want everybody to be happy and that is doing me happy at the same time - but I would like to have a wife at the level of offering me such a lens...

[Alis]

Oh yes ! This is something at your level, yes.
I do like the shallow DoF very much.

It's with the 50mm f/1.2 L USM on the 5D Mark II ?

I am not the kind of guy to be jealous - I want everybody to be happy and that is doing me happy at the same time - but I would like to have a wife at the level of offering me such a lens...

Thanks, Antonio! But let me correct a few facts here

My wife did not offer me that lens, I offered her

It is not 50mm 1.2. It is the 85mm 1.2

And finally, I did not take this picture with that lens, this was done with the mighty 70-200mm 2.8 on a 5D MKII! However, I was pretty far away, that is why I guess you see such a shallow depth of field But I like the way you think

[peterb533]

In a cafe at Sidmouth, shot with Fuji GA645Zi on Fuji Pro160C film, F6.7 at 1/125sec. Processed in Lightroom 3 from scanned negative.

[Antonio Correia]

In a cafe at Sidmouth, shot with Fuji GA645Zi on Fuji Pro160C film, F6.7 at 1/125sec. Processed in Lightroom 3 from scanned negative.

This is the kind of portrait which is contextualized as the foreground and the background let us know where your dad was and what he was doing at the moment of the shot.
The background is not a brilliant one indeed because it is too noise,there is a door, a way out, a wall with lots of texture, some lights or so it seams, but ...
I am sorry that he is not looking to the other side or that there isn't more image on the right right (our right side) as he is looking this way. May be you could "darken" the background...
The "treatment" you imposed the image is not of my preference but that, as well as other aspects, is quite personal and if you like it... Fine.

Thank you for posting Peter.

[peterb533]

This is the kind of portrait which is contextualized as the foreground and the background let us know where your dad was and what he was doing at the moment of the shot.
The background is not a brilliant one indeed because it is too noise,there is a door, a way out, a wall with lots of texture, some lights or so it seams, but ...
I am sorry that he is not looking to the other side or that there isn't more image on the right right (our right side) as he is looking this way. May be you could "darken" the background...
The "treatment" you imposed the image is not of my preference but that, as well as other aspects, is quite personal and if you like it... Fine.

Thank you for posting Peter.

Thanks for your comments. Wasn't sure of the image treatment myself, just trying some effects in Lightroom. Here is the original with the background darkened as you suggested

[Antonio Correia]

Thanks for your comments. Wasn't sure of the image treatment myself, just trying some effects in Lightroom. Here is the original with the background darkened as you suggested

Oh yes. For me it is much better now
However, I would introduce an overall "darker" image except for his face.
With a mask, curves, whatever. Care to try please ?
Thank you. I think - my straight point of view - that it has been already a great improvement. I am sure he - dad - will like this one better.

[Antonio Correia]

[Alis]

Great one, Antonio! Very colorful, I like the directional light and the expression on her/his face.

[Antonio Correia]

Great one, Antonio! Very colorful, I like the directional light and the expression on her/his face.

Thank you Alis His face actually

[Alis]