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

Oh, sorry :) You are right :)
How could I have missed that ? :o

Antonio,

which one of the two has the pleasing color?

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Originally Posted by Crovean

Antonio,

which one of the two has the pleasing color?

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In my monitor, and looking at post number 243 - just above - it's the framed one.
You have done a nice work removing her eye-bugs :)

This is avery good friend of mine who hates to have her photograph taken but succumbed when I asked her to model for a while so I could start to get some experience of portraiture, however she refused to look into the camera and did'nt sit for long.

http://i53.tinypic.com/1z1z2gm.jpg

Your thoughts and critique would be most welcome
Best Wishes Pat.

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Originally Posted by Ollokot

This is avery good friend of mine who hates to have her photograph taken but succumbed when I asked her to model for a while so I could start to get some experience of portraiture, however she refused to look into the camera and did'nt sit for long.

http://i53.tinypic.com/1z1z2gm.jpg

Your thoughts and critique would be most welcome
Best Wishes Pat.

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Hi Pat,

The only "bad" thing that leaps out and hits me over the head with a baseball bat is the excessive space above the head. Other than that, looks good.

Any better?

http://i54.tinypic.com/zn6b7b.jpg

Hi Colin,

Thank you for your comment,I see what you mean by the excessive space over her head. If herself will agree to sit again I shall take that into account.

Best Wishes Pat

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Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

In my monitor, and looking at post number 243 - just above - it's the framed one.
You have done a nice work removing her eye-bugs :)

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Thanks!

Somehow i'm still having that problem, when i upload my pictures to flickr my images losses its colors. I thought i set my camera already to sRGB setting from Adobe RBG.
:(

Colin,

I posted a reply before I saw your second reply,yes it is better.

Pat.

Thank you Pat for posting your friend's photo here. :)
And thank you Colin for your excellent comment as usual :)
I saw the photo on my iPhone somewhere in town and I immediately thought that the image had too much above the head's model but it was a good image.
I read later that Colin had the same opinion and when I arrived home I saw his square cropped version.
But I wouldn't go as far as Colin did. In fact, I made a different crop of this Irish lady and I gently rotated the image just a bit to enhance the mood of the moment.
I have also "darkened" a bit ... applying my usual dear canvas.
:):):)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5093/...6517edfe_z.jpg

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Originally Posted by Crovean

Told her to take a rest then re-shoot so here's the updated portrait.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5014/...8eb0262fdb.jpg

But she told me, she didn't have time to rest so I use Photoshop to make her look like she did. :D

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Nice editing!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5176/...138c39eb_z.jpg

What do you think, please?

Katy,
Generally I do not like significant changes in the background around the focus of the image, although in this case it works great :) it adds to the separation and I like it. The light and shadow on the face is pretty good too. Part of me wants to see some more highlights there, but that's a point of style and what you have done is... Well... Great :)

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Originally Posted by Katy Noelle

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5176/...138c39eb_z.jpg

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I agree with Brian. It is a great portrait indeed :)
Perhaps the crop could have been a bit less severe above her head...
Looking again, the background is a bit too strong with too much light from what appears to be a window. There is a great difference of light between the bottom half area and the upper half. Was is intentional ?

Thank you Katy for posting here again :)

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Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

I agree with Brian. It is a great portrait indeed :)
Perhaps the crop could have been a bit less severe above her head...
Looking again, the background is a bit too strong with too much light from what appears to be a window. There is a great difference of light between the bottom half area and the upper half. Was is intentional ?

Thank you Katy for posting here again :)

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http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5213/...9a919260_z.jpg

Is this crop a little better, Antonio? The difference in light from the bottom half to the top half was not intentional. I wonder if it was partly caused by my shadow?:confused:

Thanks, also, Brian! Your thoughts are really encouraging.

I did make a split second decision to put the window behind her. The wall seemed very boring and I just half thought through/half intuited it - knowing that there would be strong light behind her. I was wondering what you would think about it. It was a very dark, snow stormy day and there wasn't as much light in the room or coming through the windows, as there usually is. I do wish that there were more highlights on her face, too.

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Originally Posted by Katy Noelle

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5213/...9a919260_z.jpg

Is this crop a little better, Antonio? The difference in light from the bottom half to the top half was not intentional. I wonder if it was partly caused by my shadow?:confused:

Thanks, also, Brian! Your thoughts are really encouraging.

I did make a split second decision to put the window behind her. The wall seemed very boring and I just half thought through/half intuited it - knowing that there would be strong light behind her. I was wondering what you would think about it. It was a very dark, snow stormy day and there wasn't as much light in the room or coming through the windows, as there usually is. I do wish that there were more highlights on her face, too.

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Katy,
very nice picture!:)
I can't see the exif ... could you please write data? I'm interested in aperture, focal lenght and kind of sensor (APSC or FF) .
many thanks....:)have a nice day
Nicola

Hi!
here below another candid picture of my favourite models... my nephews!
C&C and suggestions are welcome! about PP and composition/camera setting etc etc
thanks a lot :)
N
http://i54.tinypic.com/5fk7io.jpg

And how about this Katy ? :)
I generally restrict myself to 4 or 5 formats. Verticals or horizontals.
3*4 vertical or horizontal seems a good one for me in this case. Very classical indeed...:rolleyes:

Colin taught me the 1*2 for example which is not suitable for this picture.
Here I also rotated the frame just a bit-bit.
She is a nice young teen :)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5297/...de99598f55.jpg

@ Nicola

Have you read this ?
:):)

Thanks, Antonio! I had tried this and went with that silly longer format and I'm not telling you why.:rolleyes::) This does look nice!:) She's growing up so fast!