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

[carregwen]

Here is another NSCP that i would like to share

This is an engagement shoot for my friends Jac and Lucille I hope you guys could give your inputs on this. Thanks in advance!

That's a bit weird. It's quite clever, with the reflection, and I like the colours. I think it's a little split though - my attention is divided between the actual people and their reflections, and there is a lot of space in-between. Interesting though. And weird.

[Antonio Correia]

Here is another NSCP that i would like to share This is an engagement shoot for my friends Jac and Lucille I hope you guys could give your inputs on this. Thanks in advance!

Thank you Richard for posting another of your images here
I have to agree with Rob, that it is a bit weird and I agree with all his points.
I am not so sure if that painting should be there
Their positions could also be a bit better...
You master the flash
But globally I like the photo Richard !

[Antonio Correia]

[richard amora]

thank you carregwen and antonio for another tips and points for me to ponder. This thread will did help me a lot. I hope there will be more like you guys who is very willing to share their talents with guys like me

and another photo for me to share with you guys

[Antonio Correia]

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Good image Richard ! Very well !
This is better than the other one !
One tiny little thing: all the top - kind of a rectangle - should be cloned and made green, don't you think so ?
You could also open the shadows on his face. Just a tad.
I suspect his skin is rather different from her's.

Thank you for posting

[Sahil]

Great shot, Antonio. I have had this kinda shot in my mind, BUT with a slight change.. EVERYTHING being the same (minus the background may be) the eyes towards the camera. He is giving the perfect naughty/notorious look. I mean face in the very same direction & just with the eyes, pointed towards the camera. Good shot again.

[Antonio Correia]

Great shot, Antonio. I have had this kinda shot in my mind, BUT with a slight change.. EVERYTHING being the same (minus the background may be) the eyes towards the camera. He is giving the perfect naughty/notorious look. I mean face in the very same direction & just with the eyes, pointed towards the camera. Good shot again.

Thank you Sahil
Perhaps you like this one best. It was shots minutes later
The background is just a screen away...
Almost a self-portrait

[Loose Canon]

How about now Alis ?
My wife was very clear about this image: It's not a portrait. Period.

Comparison at smaller size.
Guess how it was done. It is imperfect I know but it is a step forward

Before / After

I’d like to take a shot at this one, Antonio, if I may? This is off the top of my head without actually physically doing it.

You selected the two gentlemen, the horizontal rail between them, and the camera right gentleman’s shadow as one selection. Included in that selection is the piece of vertical bridge block between the gentlemen’s knees. Made your move with that selection.

Then cloned back in the second post from camera left and whatever part of the rail and of the bridge below it you needed. And whatever you needed of the water.

The tells. The second and fourth from camera left posts are identical, as is the section below them, including the tufts of grass in the seam from the walk to the vertical block below the post. As is the water on either side of the post you cloned in. I can see the irregularity of the water where you cloned it back in above the rail. The post between the gentlemen is still there under the left side gentleman’s coat. All in all a nice job, looks to me. Seams all line up nicely.

Am I anywhere close?

[Alis]

thank you carregwen and antonio for another tips and points for me to ponder. This thread will did help me a lot. I hope there will be more like you guys who is very willing to share their talents with guys like me

and another photo for me to share with you guys

Very nice, Richard!

I agree with Antonio, the area on top is now too narrow and it will look better if you clone it green with the grass

[Alis]

Thank you Sahil
Perhaps you like this one best. It was shots minutes later
The background is just a screen away...
Almost a self-portrait

Very nice, Antonio! You know how to select and mask man

[Sahil]

Thank you Sahil
Perhaps you like this one best. It was shots minutes later
The background is just a screen away...
Almost a self-portrait

Nice, but still I would have wanted to see the same thing in your previous shot.

Almost a self-portrait

ALMOST

[Sahil]

Cute 'eh?

The kid was tooooo camera shy. His was being ridden on cycle when this shot was taken, that too with manual focusing.

[Antonio Correia]

... Am I anywhere close?

Terry, I need a few moments to write to you reporting what I have done.
I don' have those moments now but I will write when I can. Excuse me
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Cute 'eh? The kid was tooooo camera shy. His was being ridden on cycle when this shot was taken, that too with manual focusing.

Yes, pretty cute

[Antonio Correia]

I need some comments on this one please

[Sahil]

I need some comments on this one please

Hey Antonio, what an interesting shot. I like how the three people are looking 'Keenly' in different directions. As if there is something very serious going where they are looking, & yet nobody is bothered/interested in other's area of interest. I don't know if I am conveying my message properly or not.

The guy in front seems to be riding/or climbing a bicycle.
The only problem I see in this shot, the arm of the woman which is not in the frame.

[Antonio Correia]

Hey Antonio, what an interesting shot. I like how the three people are looking 'Keenly' in different directions. As if there is something very serious going where they are looking, & yet nobody is bothered/interested in other's area of interest. I don't know if I am conveying my message properly or not. The guy in front seems to be riding/or climbing a bicycle.
The only problem I see in this shot, the arm of the woman which is not in the frame.

Thank you Sahil for the quick analysis.
I agree about the missing arm
I'll tell more about this picture after more opinions.

[Sahil]

Is that a multi exposure shot?!?!?!?! Lol!

[Antonio Correia]

Is that a multi exposure shot?!?!?!?! Lol!

Negative, negative. More More tips

[Dave Humphries]

I need some comments on this one please

Ok, count me in - a series of disjointed comments

A guy on the right, possibly waiting for a phone call, it may be his water bottle on top of the phone, if so, he's there for a while, hours.

A woman disinterested in what the young lad is up to right in front of her, maybe she knows him?

He has brand new strap of a laptop bag slung over his shoulder, he looks very clean, probably educated and in a good job.

It has been shot in a warm country which is prone to heavy rainfall - and it is a tourist area I believe.

In a real leap of imagination: is that a menu wedged above the phone? Perhaps the guy works in, or owns, a restaurant and is awaiting customer telephone orders, for collection or delivery?

I wonder what others might deduce for this scenario???

I think that was fun, how did I do? (when you've had more guesses of course )

Cheers,

[Antonio Correia]

Is that a multi exposure shot?!?!?!?! Lol!

Thank you again Sahil. No it is not a multi exposure shot but it is a superposition of two photos.
The first one has only the two persons on the left and right and it was shot at the waist level and so was the one with the guy in the center.
I have selected him and pasted in the middle of the image. Of course it is not a perfect work. I don't know how to do it perfectly but I am learning. If you look closely you will see some wrong selection areas.
I post here the two original photos. I wanted to fill the middle area, you know...

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Ok, count me in - a series of disjointed comments A guy on the right, possibly waiting for a phone call, it may be his water bottle on top of the phone, if so, he's there for a while, hours. A woman disinterested in what the young lad is up to right in front of her, maybe she knows him? He has brand new strap of a laptop bag slung over his shoulder, he looks very clean, probably educated and in a good job. It has been shot in a warm country which is prone to heavy rainfall - and it is a tourist area I believe. In a real leap of imagination: is that a menu wedged above the phone? Perhaps the guy works in, or owns, a restaurant and is awaiting customer telephone orders, for collection or delivery? I wonder what others might deduce for this scenario??? I think that was fun, how did I do? (when you've had more guesses of course ) Cheers,

Thank you Dave for your interpretation of the "composition".
This was shot near the border of Cambodia/Tayland a chaotic place which I have not - silly me - documented enough where there was a big chaos. Something I had never seen before.
This is not my usual way to photograph. I usually like better compositions with more care and attention. However, this can/could be a different way to take pictures.
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Now lets go back to Terry from Missouri USA
Hello Terry. I have done this video where you will be able - I hope - to understand what I have done in this shot with the "displacement" of the two men.
Sorry for my bad spoken English, my own voice, my hesitations all the time and so forth but I am doing the best I can. And I am sure that you, as native English person, will understand what I say.
Thank you for asking You made me do it again as I have done in the shot of the three persons.
NOTE - I have to go and see that horse video slooowly and learn from elsewhere also

- Problems to up load video - Later I will post it. Excuse me