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Portrait shot

Postby Manta on Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:58 pm

Attempted a casual portrait of my daughter. Just grabbed the camera and pushed the shutter. Shot with 70-300G, 78mm, 1/160 @f6.3, auto mode (sorry! - usually shoot manual but this was a quick one!), ISO 200, auto WB.

PP was just a crop and levels adjustment.

Appreciate any comments.

(The first file was too big so this is smaller version)

Cheers,
Simon.
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Postby Glen on Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:16 pm

Manta, great shot and great smile. She is very photogenic, she justifies your gear on her shot alone. As an aside, I would probably try to include the top of her head when framing the shot, you can always crop later.


ps was 300k as a download (slow), for web use I try to keep around 80 to 150 k max as a favour to viewers. I am on cable and it was slow to download
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Postby Manta on Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:24 pm

Thanks Glen. I take your point about the crop - don't know what happened there....

I'll scale down my images further in future so as not to disadvantage anyone.

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Postby genji on Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:25 pm

lovely image of your daughter....

but maybe next time try reducing the size of the file, I am currently working in an office that has a dail-up connection...waited a very long time..but well worth it!! :)
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Postby Glen on Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:31 pm

Simon, scaling it down also doesn't disadvantage the shot, screens only display 72ppi, which is quite low, so you wont be able to tell the difference.

It really is a lovely shot with nice shallow DOF which works well
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Postby Manta on Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:32 pm

Sorry Genji!!! :oops:

Smaller version should be up now.

Thanks for the positive response.

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