More senior picture practice

[joshhuntnm]

I am reading a book--The Moment It Clicks--great read. There is a chapter called, "If you want to take great pictures, stand in front of something interesting." I guess the portrait paraphrase of this is, "If you want to take pretty pictures, stand in front of pretty people." Kalyn seemed hard to take a really bad picture of. CC welcome


1
http://joshhunt.smugmug.com/photos/307202743_4WVq7-M.jpg

2
http://joshhunt.smugmug.com/photos/307203943_GX6dP-M.jpg

3
http://joshhunt.smugmug.com/photos/307208294_h2ksN-M.jpg

4
http://joshhunt.smugmug.com/photos/307211588_NLMFL-M.jpg

5
http://joshhunt.smugmug.com/photos/307213968_ZUHqE-M.jpg

6
http://joshhunt.smugmug.com/photos/307217375_d4sag-M.jpg

7
http://joshhunt.smugmug.com/photos/307219916_ecCAz-M.jpg

8
http://joshhunt.smugmug.com/photos/307221519_NZg8m-M.jpg

[Chazman]

Hey Josh, I just got that book yesterday. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Chuck

[beetle8]

definitely attractive, great shots,
what's with the blurry foot? It seems like like it should be in the dof.

[joshhuntnm]

definitely attractive, great shots,
what's with the blurry foot? It seems like like it should be in the dof.

good eye. It is the magic of photoshop. I thought it would draw more attention to her. No?

[evoryware]

I'm not on a good monitor today but this is one of my favorite sets from you.
Can we see it without the blurred foot?
From that perspective I don't think you need to blur any parts of her.
Only thing I'm not fond of is the nose shadow in #2 and the green weeds in her face.

[joshhuntnm]

I'm not on a good monitor today but this is one of my favorite sets from you.
Can we see it without the blurred foot?
From that perspective I don't think you need to blur any parts of her.
Only thing I'm not fond of is the nose shadow in #2 and the green weeds in her face.

thanks for the kind words. I agree about the shadow. for the FYI file that shadow is coming from a the gold side of the reflector. I toned down the yellowness some--thought probably not enough for some eyes. Dang those reflectors can cast some light. She is sitting in total shade with the reflector coming right at her.

Oh, the foot. I think you might be right about this one too. sometimes I can get too happy with PS

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/307339719_uVZGt-M.jpg

by the way, this was the actual shot. I thought it was unusable. Really windy day in New Mexico.

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/307339801_fV5ze-M.jpg

[beetle8]

much better, the fact is with the blurry foot that's all I could look at.
This location also looks like it would be a great place for some shooting of the set. I'm intrigued by all the charm of the scene.
in #3I like the blowing hair however I think you did the right thing in this one by removing it.

maybe tighter on the bottom and right

[Scott_Quier]

Not loving the yellow/gold color cast in the first two or the fly-away hair in #3.

Love the lighitng in #5 though - I love using the sun as a hair light as it's so easy and give great results. Not so sure about the blurry foot though.

#7 is also quite nice.

And, you're right - I don't think you can take a bad photo of this young lady!