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Took test photos with 2-3 flashes on Tuesday. Chiefly everything went quite badly, but these two photos were maybe OK I guess. Flashes are hard. 
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echinopsis posted:hmm maybe. with photos I can quite happily be content with the aesthetic alone, and I've seen photos on here that I have liked had holes poked in them that I never would have been concerned about, so I am quite content to continue to enjoy the photos I take, I don't need someone making me think I'm worse than I already know I am Isn't that the point though? Half the criticisms here aren't things I would think are issues but then I see a hundred other photos and think, oh that's why it's a good idea to watch out for [criticism] in future photos I take myself.
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adnam posted:Isn't that the point though? Half the criticisms here aren't things I would think are issues but then I see a hundred other photos and think, oh that's why it's a good idea to watch out for [criticism] in future photos I take myself. spose what I am saying is that I like my photos, and I have pretty thin skin, and criticism is going to make me like my own photos less. and probably lead to me doing less photography overall Ihmemies posted:Flashes are hard. sure fuckin are I quickly gave up on them, not sure how I was convinced in the first place to give them a shot. the photography I like in the first place is almost entirely natural light anyway, and it's what I want for myself flash is real good, but reaal fuckin hard
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Feb 21, 2023 13:26
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echinopsis posted:hmm maybe. with photos I can quite happily be content with the aesthetic alone, and I've seen photos on here that I have liked had holes poked in them that I never would have been concerned about, so I am quite content to continue to enjoy the photos I take, I don't need someone making me think I'm worse than I already know I am There is the chill thread if people want to post pictures with no pressure or feedback.
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Hello, I'm going to post this here as I'm currently in a studio photography class and portraits are obviously our focus. This photo specifically was the first shot of the session, and was actually going to be a throwaway shot as two of the three lights didn't fire for various reasons. Only the light with the snoot attachment focused on her face fired. Further, I had yet to dial in the correct exposure. As such, the original photo was underexposed and lacking the look we were striving for with the project (snoot light on right side of her face as main, softbox on left side as fill and a color gel light pointed at the backdrop to create a gradient color halo effect behind her head.) BUT, when I got home to edit I saw an opportunity to go creative with the first shot and this is the result. For me, it's training of the nature making something out of nothing. 
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I've got two shoots coming up this week. I am excited I haven't done one in ages and need those fresh photos to edit god drat it! The weather might be poo poo on one of them... I ONLY shoot natural light so bad weather truly fucks me up. I took this photo last year. It's a copy of a kind of cliche effect, it's not trying to tell a story, just a photo of a pretty young woman, but I think all things considered it came out well. I didn't blow out the highlights either lol   (I can't choose between the two edits) it's mostly the model and the camera/lens doing the hard yards here. I just pushed the button  here's another from the set  I am really happy with them. echinopsis fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Mar 9, 2023 10:43
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Viginti Septem posted:Hello, I'm going to post this here as I'm currently in a studio photography class and portraits are obviously our focus. I like this man. and would love to hear more about the class as it carries on
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echinopsis posted:I like this man. and would love to hear more about the class as it carries on Thank you! I have another shoot with the same fellow student this Friday. We're reverse engineering a photo.
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Had the shoot today. Everything went really well. I just winged it on the setup of the lights and sort of nailed it on the first round of shots. Total luck moment and the photo gods must have been with me. I decided to shoot with the Helios 44-2 58/2 lens for the super wide open creamy soft light look and went ahead and threw it on the tilt shift adapter so I could dial in a super tight plane of focus and just murder the soft bokeh everywhere other than right on her lips. It worked out I think. Here's the original that I was trying to recreate, from Takashi Hayashi.  And my attempt to reverse engineer it 
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Mar 17, 2023 21:39
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Your plane of focus is way too tight. The original has fairly clear definition all the way through, whereas you just blow everything but part of the mouth out.
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Mar 19, 2023 06:11
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Your plane of focus is way too tight. The original has fairly clear definition all the way through, whereas you just blow everything but part of the mouth out. I agree, part of that was to hide the obvious differences in the outfit. Tho, I really don't think the professor will worry too much about the outfit. Thank you for the feedback 😊
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Mar 19, 2023 13:12
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I took this photo I am pretty happy with it. At first I wasn't happy with the sun flare, being kinda off centre, but imo portraits shouldn't be perfect, I'm not in a studio trying to take a photo for a magazine, so that's not my goal, so I have come around to liking it a lot as it is. I wish I had underexposed it a bit, because while it doesn't ruin the picture and I'm not trying to recover the detail in the sky, the harsh cutoff at the top of her hair isn't the best. BUT it's hardly image ruining Sunset is the fuckin time to take photos though, the lighting is basically perfect as is, these are my settings:    (everything else is untouched, and the colour temp is actually as shot, despite it saying custom (I must have tweaked it and then set it back to default)) I'm sure you could tweak it, but my point is that a) this camera takes nice photos and b) the sunset light really is that good also, guess the focal length. people who know me will know what it is so those people don't spoil the game echinopsis fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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Mar 22, 2023 21:43
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105mm @ f/3.5 ? Nice shot! What camera? I'm not caught up on your timeline.
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it’s a canon eos R close with the lens.. but not quite  oh and thanks 
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Mar 23, 2023 00:07
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lol well I was gonna wait for more guesses but no one else turned up was 135mm at f1.8 I ONLY use that lens and nothing else. I’m doing the whole, restrict tools to force creativity thing, or at least that’s what I say. for some reason people keep encouraging me to use shorter lenses but you know who else uses shorter lenses? basically every one fuckin else and I’m not gonna stand out by doing what everyone else does plus the results speak for themselves imo
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Mar 25, 2023 06:08
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another post by me took a lot of nice photos on saturday. this is probably best. hope you all enjoy
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echinopsis posted:another post by me Did you take one with her shoulders visible? I find the coat/wrap/dress takes away from the contrast.
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His editing takes away from the contrast
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looking pretty decent re: black levels honestly i think the editing is fine
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Yeah, I like it.
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torgeaux posted:Did you take one with her shoulders visible? I find the coat/wrap/dress takes away from the contrast. contrast is bullshit imo bellows lugosi posted:looking pretty decent re: black levels honestly i think the editing is fine thankyou very much I actually put a lot of time going back and forward and settling where I did so i’m glad you like it
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echinopsis posted:contrast is bullshit imo Different kind of contrast. I'm not talking about your post work, but the wrap interferes with a nice contrast of background and skin tone. The lighting, pose and subject really work, but again, I'd like to see how it looked with more shoulder.
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 IMG_2659-Edit-Edit-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_2735-Edit-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_2335-Edit-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Those are great 🙋
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Helen Highwater posted:
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Apr 29, 2023 04:16
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 A portrait of my grandmother. I just recovered this from an old failing hard drive from about 15 years ago that I didn't have backups for. take care of your files people!
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one of the few times I've felt a wide lens was the right tool for the job. lovely photo
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Great capture!
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The colors came out really well in that picture. That's a lovely photo and I'm glad you were able to recover it. That reminds me, I need to get a backup system  Here are some pictures I took of local EGL friends. I'm just never sure of my color work. Any advice or resources?  
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Bottom Liner posted:
excellent natural framing as well, she's being framed inside of both of the bright windows and she's centered on the wall. very good naturalistic portrait
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Bottom Liner posted:
this is great!
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 I shot this portrait almost a decade ago of my now late grandfather. I'm planning on having it drum scanned and printed for my mother soon. I'm not too happy about the framing cutting off his wrists though. Any suggestions for cropping or should I just leave as is? Ziggy Smalls fucked around with this message at 08:30 on May 28, 2023 |
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May 28, 2023 08:28
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Ominous Jazz posted:The colors came out really well in that picture. That's a lovely photo and I'm glad you were able to recover it. That reminds me, I need to get a backup system I think these are good bro. kinda stuff I like to shoot. I personally lean toward making stuff look more filmy, at least a normies idea of film, but that's just me. I shot a pinup the other day. bright colours, in full sun too. tbh I wasn't happy with most of the photos, just didn't really feel the shoot that morning.
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did a wee shoot recently     my style is definitely all about the model that’s for sure when I first started I wasn’t so sure how to define my style or how it would evolve and you sort of try everything, and as a contrast, I’ve got friends who definitely try to strike a theme/scene and the model is just one piece of that whole puzzle.. the style I have evolved, and ultimately because I like it, is absolutely about the model themselves I like these pictures a lot, as does the model there’s a lot of photographers here in town and they all have their style, and some are good and some are kinda average. within my lane however, I think I am one of the best.
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echinopsis posted:I personally lean toward making stuff look more filmy, at least a normies idea of film, but that's just me. please how
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Ominous Jazz posted:please how are you asking me how I try to achieve it?
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one thing someone once made a point of saying, when I was discussing how I raise the blackpoint in lightroom, was that your average cheapo developed film we remember from our childhood, isn't necessarily how film is, but how cheapo developed film is. so the look I am often going for isn't film per se, but a particular kind of nostalgic style idea of film photos I remember as a kid if you aren't just taking the piss and want to know what I do to get the particular look I am going for I can share.
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I too often raise the black point, but my reference was from older magazine looks where they didn't have proper black on the page.
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it reminds me of looking at a matte photo, because it's reflecting all the light in the room as a light sheen over the photo so you can't see darker details, and matte finishes and photos feel premium to me, and it gives that feel to the photo that said, sometimes it feels like I've just cast gray over the photo, which I kinda have you can go into colour grading and in the shadows section just push up the luminance for a similar overall effect but you can add a bit of red saturation and it doesn't look so gray-ish
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