Couple of high key shots

[RustingInPeace]

http://c2-photo.smugmug.com/My-Client-Proofs/Carlee-H/carlee-025oe/666262337_f2bne-M.jpg

http://c2-photo.smugmug.com/My-Client-Proofs/Carlee-H/carlee-027oe/666267155_DJs45-M.jpg

[Hackbone]

To me high key is using a very light background. Here the bushes/trees kill the effect. You have mostly blown highlights. Not detail in blouse, teeth, forehead, tip of the nose, etc. Try for a different angle and get the sky as you bkg and maybe a scrim over her head.

[Nikolai]

As Charles said, this is not a high key, it's a pair of overexposed images... :dunno

[kris10jo]

the composition is very nice in both photos, but i wonder if you could retrieve some of the detail by adjusting the exposure and contrast to achieve more of that high-key look you're aiming for. her smile is lovely in the first one.

[Qarik]

As Charles said, this is not a high key, it's a pair of overexposed images... :dunno

hmm..I like them anyway. I think it works though dial it back just a touch.:D

[codiac2600]

Not to be mean to the other photographers but the definition of high key photography is not shooting on a white or even light background. The tonality of the image technically must be on the high end, or bright, and that is it and as such these images are "high key".

On the photos they are good and on a "high end" calibrated monitor there is detail throughout the photos with very little blown out except below the breast and on the lower left shoulder. If you don't believe me please run a thresh-hold check and you'll see that very little of the photos is over exposed.

I do love the captures and you are correct in calling them high key.

[RustingInPeace]

Not to be mean to the other photographers but the definition of high key photography is not shooting on a white or even light background. The tonality of the image technically must be on the high end, or bright, and that is it and as such these images are "high key".

On the photos they are good and on a "high end" calibrated monitor there is detail throughout the photos with very little blown out except below the breast and on the lower left shoulder. If you don't believe me please run a thresh-hold check and you'll see that very little of the photos is over exposed.

I do love the captures and you are correct in calling them high key.

thank you......I was going to say I have a 20x30 of this image in the studio and there is plenty of detail

[kris10jo]

The term high-key can be a little confusing, at least for me. So, I should rephrase. If it were my photo, I would have enhanced the contrast a touch, because I would like to see the detail a bit more. Personal preference. I do like both of the photos.

[D'Buggs]

thank you......I was going to say I have a 20x30 of this image in the studio and there is plenty of detail

I bet that they look better on paper than they do on the screen.

[RustingInPeace]

I bet that they look better on paper than they do on the screen.

Bay Photo did a smoking job. I highly recomend their Giclee prints.