I did my first model/portrait session this weekend.
looking for feedback on pictures and general discussion of how to better direct a shoot 1/22
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>>2705158
love the posing, everything in the foreground is doing great. i think the background is ugly, and the UFO is pretty distracting, and unfortunately her eyes are looking in its direction. EXIF indicates your aperture has plenty of room to open and you're shooting at ISO 500 at 1/500 sec. I'd like to see a shot wider open and one stopped further down to see how those background elements look both more in focus and more out of focus. you certainly have plenty of technical legroom to attempt those shots.
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>>2705164
these are great, posing is lovely, she looks fantastic, tree is a cool compositional element, you're following the rule of thirds.
>>2705167
this is a risky shot. i like it a lot. watch the highlighting on her arm hair, that's unattractive. i might shoot this from a slightly higher perspective so her hair isn't colliding with the blown out sky above her. alternatively if she was lower, you could remove the sky entirely, and there'd be no blown out elements in the shot.
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actually that's it, the others aren't even worth it. But yes, lets discuss good posing modeling and portraiture techniques.
It seems like on closer shots you overdid it on spot removal and on far off shots you under did it, it's not terrible if you only present one image to people at a time, but it's a little jarring to not have that consistency when they're all together like this, ya feel?
>>2705201
>Also given the relative subdued, earthy tone of the backdrop, not sure her outfit was the best choice
Fully agree
Also
...I can't stop looking at this womans nose, she's pretty but
What is going on here
A number of these look overexposed to the point of hurting my eyes to look at them.
Is your monitor color corrected?
Can you even do that on your Macintosh.
>>2705174
I'd say this is the best shot overall, You're suppose to say something nice to people after criticism right?The 7.1 aperture photos overall look better in quality.
>>2705221
>Also
>...I can't stop looking at this womans nose, she's pretty but
I can't unsee it now.
She has a perky bulb nose. It's not feminine unfortunately.
>>2705221
i'm literally more interested in what's wrong with her nose than the photos
explain
>>2705184
She should be making eye contact with the camera in this
>>2705163
Might be my monitor, but the skin tones look horrible to me.
>>2705224
Not a single one of these is over exposed.
>>2705163
That skin editing looks like ass. Her complexion is completely uneven. She needs a metric shit ton of dodging and burning. And it looks like you just flat out blurred her skin along her cheek bone. Never, ever, ever do that.
Shooting in a colder environment is murder on skin tones. It's not impossible, but it's really hard for a first shoot.
>>2705320
>Not a single one of these is over exposed.
>>2705184
The setting, model, clothing, posing and makeup are all fucking horrendous.
As has been mentioned the exposure is not what you wanted for these shots, it's really bad. Why the fuck did you shoot on manual when all you did was needle match?
The colour and editing are janky as hell, whys everything a mix of crunchy over sharpening and soft focus? Why is there a massive variety of colour palettes withing one shoot? Why does every colour palette make her look like she died of radiation poisoning?
So that's the subject, the exposure and the editing covered.
I'm not even joking when I say this is possibly the worst set I've seen in my 4 years on /p
>>2705328
Thanks man, Im just starting to get into post/touching up. Will definitely look into how to use burning/dodging to improve.
>>2705454
If you can, post an unedited version of that shot.
>>2705158
Dont use Nikkon
USE CANNON FOR SHOOTING WHITE PEOPLE
think about it
Nikkon is a japan company. and all japanese people are yellow and want to look western or white so the cam sqews pale
Cannon is american and all americans want to look tan or yellow. so it turns white into yellow
Cannon for white people
Nikkon for yellow people
Sony for yellow people
>>2705169
Hahahahaha samefagging this hard
>>2705513
Canon is Japanese, you stupid nigger.
>>2705368
This guy has it spot on, why did you ignore his advice?
>>2705513
So, logically...
>2848x2848
>1200x797
>4288x2848
Read the fucking sticky holy shit
that noise reduction is damn terrible, it's like you printed them out, smeared them with butter and then took a picture of the print.
