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

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Ali I can't make anything else to that image. At least as far as I know these days. The final one - the one I have posted - is a composition of 3 files all from LR and carefully adjusted to the areas face, shirt and instrument.
I adjusted each of them and melted everything in CS with masks. Returning to LR some minor adjustments were made like brightness and contrast. I think - yes I think - that if I go and increase contrast I will blow the image.
I like your cooker. Was the cake OK ?
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Ashwin, Ashwin. Both images suffer from the same problems: Poor background and they don't really show us the people involved in the action but the action itself.
Ashwin you do have hundreds, thousands of opportunities to make this kind of pictures.
For example: show us the man seen from the ground having his panoply in the middle or on the contrary, take him from the first floor of a building with a tele lens. Involve us in the picture. Don't inform us only what they are doing but make us part of the scene. Take advantage of the foreground people out of focus. Take their expressions of delight. Ask them to make the convenient face. Too harsh Aswin ?

Here is something else. Something different, something needing a different approach and I think you got it. Background blurred with the lady in real and nice focus.
Perhaps you could desaturated a bit the other ladies in the back. Mainly desaturate the reds to enhance the main person using masks.
I have never shot a scene like this and I assume that it is difficult. I am only sorry that the lady on the background on the right side is on the line of the "main" lady originating some confusion on her face.
You have done a nice job Ashwin. You are also in a good position. I mean the eight you are, just in the middle of her body.
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Hello Peter Pauline doesn't look very tired after shopping.
It's a nice image Peter and thank you for posting.
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I want to thank everybody for posting here and keeping this old thread alive

[Ashwin]

Ashwin, Ashwin. Both images suffer from the same problems: Poor background and they don't really show us the people involved in the action but the action itself.
Ashwin you do have hundreds, thousands of opportunities to make this kind of pictures.
For example: show us the man seen from the ground having his panoply in the middle or on the contrary, take him from the first floor of a building with a tele lens. Involve us in the picture. Don't inform us only what they are doing but make us part of the scene. Take advantage of the foreground people out of focus. Take their expressions of delight. Ask them to make the convenient face. Too harsh Aswin ?

Hi Antonio,

Thank you for your suggestion...

These two photographs were published in one magazine alongwith article, and same were taken as per their requirement and direction.

[Ashwin]

Here is something else. Something different, something needing a different approach and I think you got it. Background blurred with the lady in real and nice focus.
Perhaps you could desaturated a bit the other ladies in the back. Mainly desaturate the reds to enhance the main person using masks.
I have never shot a scene like this and I assume that it is difficult. I am only sorry that the lady on the background on the right side is on the line of the "main" lady originating some confusion on her face.
You have done a nice job Ashwin. You are also in a good position. I mean the eight you are, just in the middle of her body.

With some modification

[Antonio Correia]

With some modification

Better Ashwin, much better

[Ashwin]

[Ashwin]

I will as usual, post my comments on the images. Just a few more hours please
Meanwhile...

Hi Antonio,

Your this picture is Full of noise

[Antonio Correia]

Beautifull Ashwin ! Nice work !

You say my image is full of noise. Yes it is.

[Crovean]

Here's my contribution for this thread



I did a birthday invitation for a friend using this image and I am very happy that the mother loved it!

[Antonio Correia]

Here's my contribution for this thread

I did a birthday invitation for a friend using this image and I am very happy that the mother loved it!

And she is absolutely right ! The photo is very nice and so is her expression. I like the shallow DOF but I would rather have a better background. But that is nothing compared to her cute face.

Edit - And thank you for posting... oops I forgot

[Ashwin]

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Ashwin
She is very cute.

[Alis]

Great shot, Ashwin! Very colorful ladies

It is a shame that light stand is not hanging from the ceiling. I am sure you can easily crop it out if you want to

[Alis]

This is very good, Ashwin. The very bright left lower corner of the image takes the focus away from the face though. I would use the gradient tool in photoshop to bring down the exposure a bit.

Anyway, the expression on the face of the little girl and her costume is really cute!

By the way, since I see Antonio forgot, I say, "thanks for posting here"

[Antonio Correia]

...By the way, since I see Antonio forgot, I say, "thanks for posting here"

Oh yes... Thank you Ali and Ashwin for posting here

[Alis]

Just experimenting:

[Antonio Correia]

Just experimenting:

Good job Nice conversion.
In CS ? Always with the 70-200 right ?
Care to share some info about the way you do it, please ?

[Alis]

Good job Nice conversion.
In CS ? Always with the 70-200 right ?
Care to share some info about the way you do it, please ?

Thanks, Antonio, and sure. Although probably nothing you already don't know.

The conversion is the usual method, I think here I used the LAB and deleted color channels.

The experimentation part was however the way I processed it after that. I am playing with the blending modes. Here I first blurred the layer with Gaussian blur filter and then set the blending to Overlay and tweaked the it a bit afterward

BTW, everything done in PS CS5 and yes I used Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM (which I sold a couple of days ago to upgrade to Mark II, already on its way )

[Antonio Correia]

Thanks, Antonio, and sure. Although probably nothing you already don't know.

The conversion is the usual method, I think here I used the LAB and deleted color channels.

The experimentation part was however the way I processed it after that. I am playing with the blending modes. Here I first blurred the layer with Gaussian blur filter and then set the blending to Overlay and tweaked the it a bit afterward

BTW, everything done in PS CS5 and yes I used Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM (which I sold a couple of days ago to upgrade to Mark II, already on its way )

Thank you Alis I have to try that some day ...
Very interesting indeed

[Alis]

Here is another one (Lens is the Canon 85mm f/1.2 L @1.2):

[Antonio Correia]

Here is another one (Lens is the Canon 85mm f/1.2 L @1.2):

I can see the book and the good quality of the image
I like this. I tried once but did not succeed. Have to do it over and over ...
Blendings allow very creative images...