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First go at a portrait
ive tried a few before but i couldn't get the focus right. but i think iv'e nailed it this time!
shoot it real.
look! and see. Shoot and feel
Nice lighting, but that's more of a detail of a portrait, Jethro.
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Jethro,
Nice pose and good composition - nice and tight. Exposure seems to be spot on as well. What lens and aperture settings did you use for this? My guess is kit lens, wide open. I think it's either a tad soft, or still slightly misfocussed. Look at the facial hair on the model's forhead, which is where I think the focal point is. By way of contrast, the models eyelashes come across to me as a tad soft. Some of this may well be due simply to the resizing process, of course; could you perhaps post a small crop of just the model's eye - the one that's closest to the camera. On the lighting, it's quite direct and undiffused. SB800? It might be worth trying to soften it a touch by either using a diffuser over the front of the light source, or by bouncing it off another surface. g.
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I think a very small burst of fill flash would have helped this...
It would have done two things: 1) Removed that strong shadow under her nose 2) put stronger catchlights in her eyes A properly ballanced fill flash is a great thing New page
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Jethro,
Thanx, and pretty much as I called it. Shutter speed was ? IAC, reshoot almost exactly the same, but implement these two very minor changes ... f6.3. Use the inbuilt flash @ -1. Let's see how that pans out. g.
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