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StoneNYC · Jul 18, 2013

Nice tones and I love that only her lips are in focus :smile:

TheFlyingCamera · Jul 18, 2013

I'd be careful with taking your film to Lightwaves. They're not what they used to be. I dropped off a whole batch of 5x7 Portra for them to soup and I'm really lucky it's scannable - the negs have a really weird color to them, and most of the shots require a 70-80cc tweak in the green/magenta range to get them color balanced right. They're not maintaining their chemistry.

msbarnes · Jul 19, 2013

TheFlyingCamera, thanks! Do you recommend a lab?

tony lockerbie · Jul 20, 2013

Actually, while the colour shift is blue/cyan, I quite like the effect here. Lovely light, amazing subjects too....maybe this will work in B&W as well.

benjiboy · Jul 26, 2013

The main problem with this portrait is that the sitter has dead eyes, there's no catch lights in them, it could have been improved by asking the model or an assistant to hold a white or silver reflector in front of her in her lap out of shot to bounce some light up under her chin and into her eyes to put some light them. The picture has been shot wide open and it looks to me like the point of the sharpest focus is the tip of her nose and fall off progressively after that, not where it should be her eyes , it would have been better if shot with a stop or so smaller so the whole face was sharp.

cliveh · Jul 26, 2013

benjiboy said:
The main problem with this portrait is that the sitter has dead eyes, there's no catch lights in them, it could have been improved by asking the model or an assistant to hold a white or silver reflector in front of her in her lap out of shot to bounce some light up under her chin and into her eyes to put some light them. The picture has been shot wide open and it looks to me like the point of the sharpest focus is the tip of her nose and fall off progressively after that, not where it should be her eyes , it would have been better if shot with a stop or so smaller so the whole face was sharp.

Although I agree with some of the above, I would advise against getting the model to hold a reflector, as soon as she does this it will alter her body position and posture. I know you have put this in the critique gallery, but may I also mention that it is the easiest thing in the world to critisize any photograph, but another thing entirely to produce one.

benjiboy · Jul 26, 2013

cliveh said:
benjiboy said:

The main problem with this portrait is that the sitter has dead eyes, there's no catch lights in them, it could have been improved by asking the model or an assistant to hold a white or silver reflector in front of her in her lap out of shot to bounce some light up under her chin and into her eyes to put some light them. The picture has been shot wide open and it looks to me like the point of the sharpest focus is the tip of her nose and fall off progressively after that, not where it should be her eyes , it would have been better if shot with a stop or so smaller so the whole face was sharp.

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Although I agree with some of the above, I would advise against getting the model to hold a reflector, as soon as she does this it will alter her body position and posture. I know you have put this in the critique gallery, but may I also mention that it is the easiest thing in the world to critisize any photograph, but another thing entirely to produce one.

I've been a portrait photographer for more than fifty years and have judged many Portrait competitions, I can assure you that I do know what I'm talking about I feel my comments are correct and valid. I have produced portrait work that I have gained distinctions with from The Royal Photographic Society. this isn't Flickr, or Photo net where where the members Ooh and Arr over every image because they don't know any better, I have no axe to grind I was trying to be help you to improve your work with my remarks, or how will you ever know where you are going wrong ?.

cliveh · Jul 26, 2013

Benjiboy, I'm not trying to say you don't know what you are talking about, but having been party to many portrait/fashion shoots as a photographic lecturer, I have noticed that if the model holds a reflector things are not quite the same as if she/he is not involved.

benjiboy · Jul 26, 2013

cliveh said:
Benjiboy, I'm not trying to say you don't know what you are talking about, but having been party to many portrait/fashion shoots as a photographic lecturer, I have noticed that if the model holds a reflector things are not quite the same as if she/he is not involved.

It works for me Clive, but if you prefer I suggest you get yourself a Trigrip reflector then and hold it in your hand, it's one of the cheapest and most effective shooting aids for portraiture I own, but I feel I must stress that in a portrait if the eyes aren't sharp whatever else is out of focus is not as important, but at least have enough depth of field to have the whole face acceptably sharp, I hope this helps.

benjiboy · Jul 26, 2013

cliveh said:
Benjiboy, I'm not trying to say you don't know what you are talking about, but having been party to many portrait/fashion shoots as a photographic lecturer, I have noticed that if the model holds a reflector things are not quite the same as if she/he is not involved.

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