A portrait (in addition to the swan river pics)

[darb]

Taken at same time ;

Someone recently said "dont be afraid of the dark" with lighting so ive kept this one quite soft in terms of lighting, thoughts?

used a CPL ... tried flashfill, but things got ugly, not sure why (too close perhaps.)

[shutterbug]

I like it darb, very nature

[PiroStitch]

Nice on Darb, but I'd lighten up the right side of her face a bit. The shadow, although soft, is still just a tad bit dark. And that's on my LCD as well, which is about 0.5+ brighter.

[wendellt]

Wow, that dayglow is beautiful
how do you shoot such tones?

I saw a similar one on your website where the subject was back facing the camera looking towards a beach, in the afternoon twilight, that was nicely framed shot

[Matt. K]

I think you'd have a hard time making that one look ugly Darb. Love the soft, warm light. I might have been tempted to pop the contrast on the sunnies...and change the hue to blue....just to add more interest.

[darb]

cheers : re the skin tone ... was just that magic time of day in the late arvo, just before sunset. We get some nice light to play with around those times. (here in WA anyway.)

[beetleboy]

darb, did you have the CPL on when you were trying to use fill flash? Been there, done that! I don't know why but it does seem to mess with your pic!

Oh, beautiful by the way..in every way!

Liam =]

[darb]

Liam : yep! sometimes i get flash fill nailed ... sometimes im way off , CPL does seem to add ambiguity to the situation thats for sure.

[stephen]

Couls somebody please explain what flash fill is.Sorry im a newby. Thanks Stephen

[PlatinumWeaver]

Fantastic shot.. pity you didn't have an assistant to stand off to the right to bounce back some of that sunlight onto the left ( our right ) side of her face.. but I like it either way... if you boost the shadows we see the photographer in her glasses so the darkness probably saves you some cloning...

[darb]

stephen basically when its a fairly bright situation, but you still use the flash to "fill in" something that isnt covered, whilst maintaining an exposure setting which correctly captures the rest of a scene.

here's an example ... in the following shot, if i had not fired flash, my friends face would be totally black due to it exposing at a setting designed to capture the colour of the sunet ... there was very little else lighting up his face. THis is an extreme example ... other times its ussed more subtly. ;




another example, same guy (thanks to jason for being such a willing example, haha.) ;

[Alex]

Darb,

Very nice portraits. I'm not sure if the fill flash would have improved No.1

Alex