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

[Antonio Correia]

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

[Crovean]

Antonio,

which one of the two has the pleasing color?

[Antonio Correia]

Antonio,

which one of the two has the pleasing color?

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

[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.



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

[Colin Southern]

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.



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

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.

[Colin Southern]

Any better?

[Ollokot]

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

[Crovean]

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

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.

[Ollokot]

Colin,

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

Pat.

[Antonio Correia]

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.

[Mario Xavier]

Told her to take a rest then re-shoot so here's the updated portrait.


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

Nice editing!

[Katy Noelle]

What do you think, please?

[speedneeder]

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

[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

[Katy Noelle]

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

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?

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.

[Nicola]

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?

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.

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

[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

[Antonio Correia]

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...

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

[Antonio Correia]

@ Nicola

Have you read this ?

[Katy Noelle]

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