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For those who have had enough of Emma

Introducing Darien who agreed to play model for the afternoon.

Comments welcome

Nicely done Bob!

Mild distraction with the OOF "horn" on the right side of her head....

Very nice work Bob....now if only I could be this good at portraits!! I really struggle with people so I tend to stay away from portraiture (both consciously and sub-consciously).

Anyone want to run a portrait workshop in Sydney to teach me some tips???

Bob - u should do more of these portraits mate..this one is also a pearler!
You've nailed focus, DOF, and lighting...
Eye contact is lovely too....
I'd be interested to know two things from this shot:

1. What your lighting setup was and
2. How much PP you've done on this? Her complexion appears near perfect.

Well done!

aim54x wrote:Anyone want to run a portrait workshop in Sydney to teach me some tips???

We've done these before; no reason why we can't organise another one.

We need two things ...

A venue.

Some models.

If there's interest, we can start a new thread so as not to hijack this one too much.

Geoff wrote:Bob - u should do more of these portraits mate..this one is also a pearler!
You've nailed focus, DOF, and lighting...
Eye contact is lovely too....
I'd be interested to know two things from this shot:

1. What your lighting setup was and
2. How much PP you've done on this? Her complexion appears near perfect.

Well done!

Thanks.
The model here was facing indirectly towards the sun which was subdued by cloud cover and then a large silver reflector low and a bit to the side giving that nice soft lighting and some shape to the image.

Regards processing:
I tweaked the raw file in a stand alone copy of Professional Portraits which I have only had for a day and a half.

I listened to feedback from Leek and took a more subtle approach than taken on some of the "Emma" images. Mostly attention to eyes, mouth, teeth, hair and some skin smoothing.

I've also had quite a bit of feedback re catchlights in my portraits from several posts.
So I followed that advice and removed the reflector catchlight in CS4 - keeping only the one sourced by the sunlight.

Hope that covers what you were after.