Shot a graduation. I like the photos, as did the client, but personally feel like they're missing something.
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>>2867161
Why is there a huge amount of blank space to her right?
>>2867162
is my fav btw
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>>2867162
Why is there so much space above her head? Should have had that same amount on the sides too then or just less and equal amounts to her sides.
>>2867163
Empty space to give the photo a sense of space, making the shot more of an environmental portrait, but with the possibility to crop in post if she wanted me to.
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>>2867164
Why is there so much more space to her right?
Colour is pretty meh, and probably could have cropped a bit tighter, it's graduation stuff not environmental portraiture.
>>2867166
Best one so far but too much more space above her head in comparison to the ground.
>>2867168
Not trying to pass this off as art or anything, Just meant that I framed it as if I were shooting an environmental portrait. Coming from fashion to more commercial work this grad season has been weird for me.
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>>2867172
Why is there so much space above her head?
>>2867170
I did that on purpose (sense of space, open skies inspires hope, blah blah blah) but hate the fringing on the trees. Anyone know of a fix for that? Luckily she didn't notice, but I definitely did and it *kills* me.
Last shot of this gal for now.
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>>2867174
Why is there so much space to her right?
Just stop "trying to create a sense of space", it's a portrait. My eyes keep getting drawn to the empty spaces which contain nothing.
The model is fantastic, which is a shame because your pictures are framed like a jackass.
>>2867173
reasons.
Here's the worst one from the set. Pose is silly, but she specifically requested it for her mom.
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Different client now.
>>2867175
Goddamnit you guys are making me realize how often I leave extra space in my shots. Welp.
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>>2867176
Side spacing is ok, the huge blank amount of space above her head ruins the photo.
>HURRR I'M TRYING TO CREATE A SENSE OF SPACE
Take pictures of the sky then and stop wasting everyone's time, hope she didn't pay for these.
Look ma, no space!
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>>2867177
Too much space above her head, you could easily remove half of it.
>>2867179
Not enough space above her head now.
Don't try to create a sense of space but leave enough space where it's not too tight.
>>2867178
Oh, she paid alright. Everyone keeps saying the empty space ruins the photos, but I have yet to hear why.
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>>2867182
Because the empty soace exhibits nothing, takes focus away from the model, and draws the eye into nothing.
Again, way too much space above her head.
>>2867180
You know what? You're right. I like this crop better. Thanks guy.
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>>2867183
I would argue that the empty space creates a virtual "frame" for the model.
>Filename
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>>2867188
That square should be moved a bit lower. Too much space.
Come on this is portraiture 101 senpachees.
I hate tight crops. They end up feeling cheesy and generic, thoughtless. Am I a bad person?
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>>2867190
>Am I a bad person?
Yes. They're portraits. That's what people want, not a huge blurry amount of fields and trees and background bullshit that is uninteresting.
That one could use just a tiny bit of more space.
>>2867189
B-but muh golden polaroid ratios tho...
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>>2867192
What if they don't all want the same thing though? Sometimes you have to teach them what they want, friend-o. For example, she didn't hire me to shoot candids, but I did in this shot, and it turned out to be her favorite.
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>>2867195
Man I love that creamy bokeh. Just look at how it melts away. Yum...
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>>2867195
They want portraits. Play with it by doing candids, not adding useless soace to photos, maybe do angled frontal shots or overheads but make them all portraits.
This photo needs less space on the left.
>>2867197
Take off a little space on the sides and shift the frame slightly to the left.
>>2867196
I don't disagree with you on that. But this is the full crop of the photo, can't go any wider. Welp.
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>>2867179
your composition is ass and your palette is atrocious. protip: latinos or whatever brown people is this look like shit if you boost warm highlights. they already have hella warm skin.
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>>2867200
Eliminate enough space on the left to take out that light. Why would you keep it?
How much did you charge for these?
>>2867199
Did I do good senpai?
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>>2867161
all the lighting is super soft OP, it looks nice. do you just go out right at dusk or something?
>>2867201
I agree his composition is ass, my biggest gripe is that. The coloring could be better, you did an excellant job.
>>2867203
Just a little too much space on the left.
This picture is weird, like she's throwing elbows doing some kind of 90s Backstreet Boys dance move.
>>2867201
I don't like that at all, my dude. Texas is warm, so I make my photos warm. It's like poetry.
>>2867202
Too much.
>>2867204
Yeah, I shot right after golden hour. Tends to give a really nice glow in my opinion, and golden hour is still too hot to shoot in Texas. Can't have my clients coming out all sweaty and gross.
>>2867212
How much did you charge, I've been giving you advice give an approximate amount.
its so fucking hot rght now
>>2867209
She was in a dance team. It's all part of the routine. I'm not the choreographer, my dude.
>>2867214
$120 for a 45-min session. It's low, but the sheer volume of this grad season actually paid off in a big way.
Protip: when targeting younger clients keep your prices affordable and edit with fast turnarounds, so they have time to advertise you on social media (because you KNOW that's where the photos are going). It's exponential.
>>2867217
Too damn hot. What part of Texas are you in?
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Anyway here's a selfie I took while shooting a wedding in Mexico. I used the reflection of a window, which is a black belt skill in photography.
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>>2867223
Are you shooting these in auto?
>>2867227
Only that particular one. It's an old shot, back when all I had was a t3i, kit lens, and 50 1.4. No use shooting manual when your lens changes apertures on you as you zoom.
What do you guys think of this shot?
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>>2867232
what the actual fuck.
try to change their skin tones using HSL. Luminance can deliver nice results whatever the skin
>>2867232
Too much space on the right, it's distracting as fuck, just stop doing that. Again these are portraits, could have framed the shot with less space on the right or have taken a few steps to the right and angled at him to get better composition.
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>>2867242
Better?
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>>2867247
No. Not wide enough. Also, floor space should never be more than top space, with that said it's more acceptable to have a tad more top space than floor space. The guy on the right doesn't have enough top space and too much floor space. That branch is fucking annoying too on the top left.
If anything you could have made them get closer and you could frame their legs out or something. Maybe that would have made this look more gay but it looks pretty gay anyway so.
>>2867252
Really trying to get better as a wildlife photog here. Is this better?
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>>2867254
You have a problem. I'm seriously sick of your shit with the whole trying to create "space" theme you have in all your photos.
A scooch or two to the left would have made this picture, instead you composed to "create a sense of space".
>>2867255
You need to break some rules once in a while anon.
>>2867267
What happens in the tent, stays in the tent.
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>>2867276
You need to follow some basic core rules and bend them slightly. This would have been better if you shifted the angle down slightly to eliminate so much top space.
>>2867281
But then how would you know the context of this shot?
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>>2867284
This is framed alright though. So, by using proper composition and taking liberties within that.
So this was some kind of gay retreat then?
>>2867276
>once in a while
Bending rules is great when it's advantageous to the end result
You're just mindlessly cropping bad for memes
Compositional rules are there for a reason. They've been around since the ancient arts. They make pieces coherent. Only an amateur could justify this and he would learn nothing before admitting this is bad and moving on
>>2867161
>but personally feel like there's missing something
Yeah, meaningful composition
>>2867284
What fucking context?
I have absolutely no idea what is supposed to be the context of this guy swimming in a lake.
>but blurred trees in the backround helped me grasp what is the occasion and motivation of the photo
>>2867285
Nah, we straight as hell. Plus gays don't retreat, they advance.
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>>2867287
Cropping bad? That's just your opinion man. Plenty of people here like my cropping, I'm sure.
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>>2867288
Context is everything my dude. That's why you like the photo. Just admit it.
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>>2867289
No
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>or
>>2867199
You can't just put people off center and expect the photo to be astonishing. There needs to be something of interest in the space you left open, and it needs to lead to the model. In too many pictures the eye leads away from the model to the blank space and that makes most of these horrible.
>>2867166
Also works out if she wants to frame it
>>2867290
I want to see where her legs are going
Instead, you excluded her waist-down in exchange for
>bland blue sky
>b- b- but my s-space and context
No
Show me one photo where there is context in the blank space
Not sky. Like if you're shooting at a skate park, show me a tedious tag or a skate ramp or a girl skating or a boy photographing her
That's context
Not empty blue filling a third of your every image
>>2867296
D E A D
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so boring.
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>>2867298
Do you have a wonky eye? Also your blacks are too dark in this.
>>2867298
Yeah but it's a portrait. Learn your genre asswipe.
I still stand my ground. Dead center is better than an unaccomplished effort in creating a good composition.
Do you know what comes of an unaccomplished effort in creating a good composition?
A bad composition.
>>2867308
Whoops. Photo failed to upload.
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>>2867310
Posting of my personal favorites.
If y'all care, my website is
www.photosbymichaelangelo.com
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Why did Lange leave all this empty space? She needs to learn the rules.
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Adams needs to learn about the rules. We could've seen more
legs instead of sky.
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Damnit Souza, you should know the rules!
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>>2867308
>if I like it and they like it
Customer doesn't know jack shit. They're paying you for your dslr quality and to be shot "by a professional". Changes are these are their first photoshoots and they're hypes. Do you think they care about composition when their make-upped faces pop into normiebook and instagrin? No one tells them "oh, what a great PHOTOGRAPH!" Those comments shout "omg love you <3" and the guys that don't know them that well later fap furiously to them in their beds.
These are good enough, but their mama could have taken those pics on your dslr on full auto and get the same results. You have nothing here out of the bland mass of grad photos and this and the cropping is what you feel is missing in the first place.
I love being anonymously mean to ignorant americans on the internet. Take the tip tho and next time you shoot, think about these things you've been said here. Because
>it's cc
>>2867312
Don't give a shit about your shit photos.
>>2867314
You're being completely asinine like stupid dumb monkey nigger. The background in this is actually interesting and not bokeh trees and sky. Also, if your stupid monkey mind could notice- she's square in the shot.
>>2867315
This is a journalistic photo, not a portrait, again you're being asinine. Portraiture is a very specific thing and doesn't include framing photos so you have pointless trees that add nothing to the photo taking up half a frame.
>>2867316
The flag works within the rules of composition unlike having a random light or branch off to the side.
>>2867314
On the right where the tent ends the cut into the backround is interesting. The blurred backround introduces a new setting, context if you will. On the lower left there is texture in the props that add to the composition (more context). And right on top of the props the curving line in the tent fabric leads to the subject, and on the top left the empty headroom gives a sense of puzzling and troubling thoughts, hopeless and tired wondering.
>>2867315
The folks' heads cut the picture in half, which is against the rules but aides the composition. From the top right, the row of houses point the eye to the head of the pointing boy, and his extended arm continues that line very naturally, pointing where the eyes will be lead, to a power point of a cut in the thirds lines.
>>2867316
Very traditional portraiture where the flag adds extremely clear context: This is the head of the united states. Had it been excluded and replaced by a white wall, this image would be nothing. Just enough headroom.
Eat it and learn fucker. Why must you be this stubborn? Why?
>>2867182
The empty space is shit because the girls want pictures of themselves in their grad stuff, not whispy weat stalks and sky. They are the focus, but you have 30-40% model and 60-70% other.
>>2867201
This edit looks like I pulled it out of my ass. It's shit
>>2867220
so you listened to the /p/ meme and didn't put watermarks on any of the final pics?
>>2867312
this is good aside from her facial expression
>>2867190
What your missing is these people want to print them out and set them around the house/office. When you actually have the physical photo in a picture frame, if you don't crop close then the model appears tiny and insignificant. On a computer screen you're seeing everything, in a picture frame you have a very small model. Customers want to see the models. Remember who's buying and why, what are the uses they seek.
so much amateurs itt
shooting a bit wider and cropping is used heavily in commerical photography
these are good OP, definitely crop some of them and i agree with >>2867535
Same as last time m80. Shit.
>>2867161
yes.
talent.
>>2867223
Kek I see you OP
>>2867556
>so much amateurs itt
aside from your grammar, what exactly do you expect? most people doing the comments here (most people on this board) are too scared to even leave their basement, let alone shoot street or especially, portraiture
>>2867166
the only decent photo you took
>>2867161
awkward out of focus space on the right, if you want to give a sense of the environment then maybe have it in focus at least, also the colour is washed out, her gown is grey, for example
>>2867162
needs more space on the sides
>>2867164
that just looks awkward as hell, the pose, the smile, that she is noticeably not centered, but close enough to it that it looks like a mistake rather than a choice, also her skin is wayyyy to bright
>>2867172
too much space above her, made worse by the fact that most of that space is blown out, then coloured this weird sepia
>>2867174
the colours are nice on this with the exception of her skin
>>2867176
the extra space above her actually works with this, since she is gesturing and looking up
>>2867177
still too much space above, but now in the realm of acceptability
>>2867179
I actually kinda like this, as the other anon pointed out it could use a bit more space at the top
>>2867188
If space creates a virtual frame for the model, your frame looks something like pic related
>>2867713
>>2867664
You aren't even a real human bean. Get out of here imposter!
I like 'em. Reminds me of Dani Diamond's style.
>>2867232
i think the point of this is that he really wants to eat those leaves on the right...
right?
>>2867172
Tell her you need more practice and get some hi def nudes
>>2867175
>My eyes keep getting drawn to the empty spaces which contain nothing.
thats because you have adhd
>>2867201
you made her look like a ghost good job
>>2867223
you look awfully...tan
>>2868019
Texas not even once
>>2867161
That photo hurts my eye!!!! THE BRIGHT!!!!!!!! AWFUL!!!!
>>2867161
Consider portrait crop to remove the trees on right and a little of the brick on left.
White balance is too warm, bringing it down makes the grass and trees green instead of yellow.
Bring down the saturation and vibrance on the background, but not on her skin.
>>2867162
>Too much headroom
google image search professional headshot photographers and notice how close they crop the head. There's a whole art to composing the portrait headshot and it takes time to learn because it's not instinctual. Most people shoot too high and leave too much room above the head, instead of bringing the camera down a foot where it needed to be to get a good shot.
If you catch yourself doing this, then shoot wider and fix it in PP with crop
>>2867164
crop tighter, fix colors, go colder on white balance temp
>>2867166
crop and work on colors
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>>2867172
Stop trying to shoot landscapes and compose on your subject.
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>>2867174
>not making your vertical lines vertical
newb mistake.
you need to fix colors, rotate, portrait crop.
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>>2867176
suggestions: rotate, crop, fix colors
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>2867182
you sound like a clown when you speak like that, OP.
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>>2867190
this is your best one yet, rather, I should say, this was your least ruined one, yet.
>>2867200
problem here: you went from 85mm long to 50mm short focal length, consequently you got facial distortion making her nose look larger and protruding her mouth and chin. landscape orientation didn't work here, either.
solution: stay back, shoot longest focal length possible and zoom in. if you have speedlights, look up dylan patrick's cinematic headshot tutorial about using Highspeed Shutter Sync
>>2867203
ridiculous pose, the crop is all wrong, and it looks like you're using instagram filters.
>>2867223
What are you doing, Jamal?
>>2867232
don't make him angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry
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>>2867254
you can't even get your verticals straight, Paco.
>>2867254
straighten verticals, work on color, crop
sorry bout the halo effect
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>>2867298
You nailed the light on the face, particularly the eye and lip. One of your better shots.
I don't like the filter you use, it's doing bad things to skin tone where the skin is the same color as the highlights in the background. No bueno.
>>2867310
rotate your verticals straight, Pablo. This room is slanted to the right and the landwhale only emphasizes the feeling of lopsidedness
>>2867312
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>>2869512
not my skintones, that's called Auto Color, Auto Tone, Auto Contrast in PS
>>2867314
Look at The photo
The purpose is to tell a story, the ragged tent and the exposed elements show her living condition
You are beginning to sound like a art school drop out
>>2869499
That is a really shitty crop right there.
>>2869561
I'm not going to hold your hand and baby you, OP. Don't whine about "really shitty crop", you need to learn to flap your wings and leave the nest, little bird. I took the time to show you how much wasted space you left in the shot, now it's up to you to make the final decisions of how you're going to crop.
>>2869537
>not my skintones, that's called Auto Color, Auto Tone, Auto Contrast in PS
No fuck you
it looks bad.
you are implying your picture is the suggestion. if you post shit like
>suggestions: rotate, crop, fix colors
don't go around editing op's picutres if you don't know how to.
>>2869537
>trusting PS auto commands for skin
lul lazy fucks
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>>2869502
most of the re-edits have been pretty good, but I think the original looks better here. Maybe a touch off the top, but you cropped in way too much here.
>>2867165
No man, it's well framed.
>>2869662
naw, dude. naw.
>>2867223
I am a fan of this
>>2867321
>>2867198
Don't listen to this guy. This crop is good. If there was less space on the side she's facing, there'd be no room for her to "breathe" I guess. Ya feel?
It would feel claustrophobic
>>2869527
... not sure if b8
proceed with caution, OP
>>2870799
not b8, lrn2crop, faggot
>>2872171
>lrn2crop
>cuts off arm and top of flagpole
crop by standing closer. don't fucking crop in post. these people are retards. also, she'll never go anywhere with a degree. have her clothes off and she'll make more from one of your photos than she'll make at whatever food service job she has now and will have from now on.
>>2869527
are you trolling?
>>2869535
>>2869527
>>2869520
>>2869504
>>2869499
>>2869502
holy crap this is a bad crop
how do you crop things like this and think they look good? you really need to get out of the basement and develop some more human taste. only an alien or cave troll could think these crops were more aesthetically pleasing than the originals
i feel claustrophobic and nauseous looking at your editing.
you really arent qualified to be giving advice to this guy. go work on your own skills first.
>>2867161
she has no friends
>>2872288
OP, what are you doing?
>>2867182
That pose in the high grass is looks retarded. I can't see her legs enough and that makes the whole image weird.
Also the crop is shitty.
>>2869573
I would have taken a little more off the bottom and left more on top. The cap is being thrown up and you should leave space for it to move into.
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Or this is a little tighter in cropping out the logo on her stole
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>>2875134
That is why two versions, although it would also depend on the client. I would be more inclined to leave the logo if it was promotional material for the school and crop it out to get a tighter pic if it was for the graduate. In the case of the graduate there would likely be several other pics in the set that show the logo and lettering so I don't think it would be as critical to include it.
A longer 3/4 portrait crop would also work, the positioning on her right hand and the white space around it is pretty good.
>>2869535
Wow that's shit.
Your portraits are terrible. Kill yourself my man.
