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Here's a few of my images from today.

These are all shot using the available light, D300, 85mm f/1.4, and straight out of camera + resized for the web, plus a little bit of sharpening.








During the shoot, Matt and I discussed the available backgrounds. We had the beautiful burnt orange wall (actually a mural of the Aboriginal flag, and Gerry has a magnificent image of a young child with his dad against the sun from this mural), and we had a poster infested wall which was felt to be a little too busy for these sorts of images.

The ijmages above were shot against the burnt orange wall; these two were shot against the poster infested wall. I think they work, but I'm interested in your opinions.





Full Gallery here

Gary
85mm F1.4.....................................nothing to say. A classic lens doing what it was designed to do best. Nice work!

Gary,

Nice intense eye contact! #3 is awesome.

These JPEGS look blotchy on my monitor. Perhaps too much compression??

Nice naturally looking portraits, Gary. I really like the way the hair light turned out on the guy in #2.

I agree with the Surenj's comment on artifacts in these jpgs.

Cheers

Alex

you had better watch out next time Gary, 'cause I might just knock you over the head and do a runner with that lens or yours..

A classic lens doing what it was designed to do best

that is such a great length for this kind of work, it was not until i had the 50mm on that I even came close to the compositions.

The are are all great compositions and there are some crackers on your gallery - however is the sharpening is a tad too much or jpeg compression a bit too much?

Love them Gary !!!

surenj wrote:These JPEGS look blotchy on my monitor. Perhaps too much compression??

I had trouble seeing this, but I've reprocessed the images and uploaded new versions, which hopefully address the issues you were seeing.

Do these look any better to you?

definately better gary.
what i love about #1 and #3 is the eye contact and what a contrast...a sultry little vixen engaging...daring you and then the sweet disarming smile from a girl who looks to have been plucked from a field out of medievil times. wonderful.

gstark wrote:Do these look any better to you?

Definitely better. I can see the detail that the 85 has captured. Previous images were not doing them justice.

surenj wrote:

gstark wrote:Do these look any better to you?

Definitely better. I can see the detail that the 85 has captured. Previous images were not doing them justice.

What happened ?!?

They do look better now.

I love the staffie Gary

I like the 3rd and fourth best. One because of the colour contrast and the other because of the subject amused smile. I like portraits that make me forget the technical details and force me to think why I like this better than another.

Rooz wrote:...a sultry little vixen engaging...daring you and then the sweet disarming smile from a girl who looks to have been plucked from a field out of medievil times. wonderful.

Thanx, Chris.

That's pretty much how I feel about those two images too, but with the added thought that these two ladies are particularly engaging from a photographer's perspective. It's bloody difficult to foul up when you have such great material to work with.

And in the third, the choice of colours that Jane was wearing ... As i said to some of the people that we were photographing, it would have been a travesty to not have made these images.

craig.rohse wrote:

surenj wrote:

gstark wrote:Do these look any better to you?

Definitely better. I can see the detail that the 85 has captured. Previous images were not doing them justice.

What happened ?!?

They do look better now.

Just some different processing and tools. The originals were done quickly, under Windows 7 RTM, but I've not yet installed a full PP toolset on my Win7 installation. I reverted to XP (on the same system) with Lightroom, and reprocessed the images from the raw file.

I need to install Lightroom on the new installation ...

I agree with Chris, although I am not sure the plastics industry was that strong in the medieval times.

The images, overall, are great, however, they look a little soft to me, particulalry in the eyes in the first.