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30th July 2010, 01:45 PM
Antonio Correia

Re: NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - please post them here

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ricko

Just one I took of my sisters daughter the other day. Brought a new lens (EF 24-105mm F4 L USM), so was just trying it out.:D

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/1...0818165824.jpg
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Thank you Richard for posting here and congratulations for the new lens:)

Your picture looks fine and she is a young cute little girl :)
However, there are certain points I would like to comment.
You could for example clone the little yellow area at the top right, while somehow darkening the lower left one on the left side of the frame. She is leaned to the sofa (I think) but it shouldn't be that bright. :)
And... brighten up her brown eyes. she deserves it. :) Be careful, don't over do it :)
Thank you again :)
30th July 2010, 07:35 PM
Ricko

Re: NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - please post them here

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

Thank you Richard for posting here and congratulations for the new lens:)

Your picture looks fine and she is a young cute little girl :)
However, there are certain points I would like to comment.
You could for example clone the little yellow area at the top right, while somehow darkening the lower left one on the left side of the frame. She is leaned to the sofa (I think) but it shouldn't be that bright. :)
And... brighten up her brown eyes. she deserves it. :) Be careful, don't over do it :)
Thank you again :)

NP thanks for the feed back, always welcome!
30th July 2010, 11:23 PM
Alis

Re: NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - please post them here

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

What pleases me mot in this picture is that you have framed him within a frame.
He really is in action :)

Thanks, Antonio!
30th July 2010, 11:25 PM
Alis

Cowboy

Now, is it still a portrait if you turn your back to the camera?

http://i30.tinypic.com/2gt6zhi.jpg
30th July 2010, 11:39 PM
Antonio Correia

Re: Cowboy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alis

Now, is it still a portrait if you turn your back to the camera?

http://i30.tinypic.com/2gt6zhi.jpg

Sure is :)
And with this shallow DOF... :)

You have done it in Photoshop or is it just the 5D with the macro lens wide opened ?

I tend to believe more towards this solution...:)

Nice and well done Black and white conversion :)
30th July 2010, 11:54 PM
Alis

Re: Cowboy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

Sure is :)
And with this shallow DOF... :)

You have done it in Photoshop or is it just the 5D with the macro lens wide opened ?

I tend to believe more towards this solution...:)

Nice and well done Black and white conversion :)

Thanks, Antonio!

About the depth of field, I do a lot of tricks in Photoshop, but for some reason, never liked to simulate shallow depth of field in PP. Just me. No, this one is real...
31st July 2010, 09:29 PM
Alis

http://i29.tinypic.com/2466o2s.jpg
31st July 2010, 10:30 PM
Antonio Correia

Re: NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - please post them here

Excuse Alis but I don't like this one very much... Sorry :)

I don't like neither the light he is under nor the frame.
Sorry my friend but I prefer to be honest with you. :)
I do know you understand I posture. :)
31st July 2010, 10:35 PM
Alis

Re: NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - please post them here

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Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

Excuse Alis but I don't like this one very much... Sorry :)

I don't like neither the light he is under nor the frame.
Sorry my friend but I prefer to be honest with you. :)
I do know you understand I posture. :)

LOL! You broke my heart, Antonio! :D

Of course, I understand. Sometimes, it is hard to get to the subject, so this is the way to do it, like taking photos of prisoners behind the bar, it is a very important skill, isn't it?

About the light, it was under really bad harsh sublight. I remember I used CPL but apparently it did not help that much. Then I adjusted it a lot in PS.

Please keep being honest, Antonio! I will delete your thread if you are not :eek:
1st August 2010, 01:13 AM
Alis

Re: NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - please post them here

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

Excuse Alis but I don't like this one very much... Sorry :)

I don't like neither the light he is under nor the frame.
Sorry my friend but I prefer to be honest with you. :)
I do know you understand I posture. :)

How do you like this one, Antonio? :D

http://i29.tinypic.com/15n5avo.jpg
1st August 2010, 12:54 PM
Antonio Correia

Re: NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - please post them here

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Originally Posted by Alis

How do you like this one, Antonio? :D

http://i29.tinypic.com/15n5avo.jpg

Oh yes ! :) This is something at your level, yes. :)
I do like the shallow DoF very much. :)

It's with the 50mm f/1.2 L USM on the 5D Mark II ?

I am not the kind of guy to be jealous - I want everybody to be happy and that is doing me happy at the same time - but I would like to have a wife at the level of offering me such a lens... :)
1st August 2010, 07:04 PM
Alis

Re: NON Square Cropped Portraits - (nSCP's) - please post them here

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

Oh yes ! :) This is something at your level, yes. :)
I do like the shallow DoF very much. :)

It's with the 50mm f/1.2 L USM on the 5D Mark II ?

I am not the kind of guy to be jealous - I want everybody to be happy and that is doing me happy at the same time - but I would like to have a wife at the level of offering me such a lens... :)

Thanks, Antonio! But let me correct a few facts here :)

My wife did not offer me that lens, I offered her ;)

It is not 50mm 1.2. It is the 85mm 1.2 :)

And finally, I did not take this picture with that lens, this was done with the mighty 70-200mm 2.8 on a 5D MKII! However, I was pretty far away, that is why I guess you see such a shallow depth of field :) But I like the way you think :p
6th August 2010, 01:17 PM
peterb533

Re: Dad

In a cafe at Sidmouth, shot with Fuji GA645Zi on Fuji Pro160C film, F6.7 at 1/125sec. Processed in Lightroom 3 from scanned negative.

http://a.imageshack.us/img820/1323/0054edit.jpg
6th August 2010, 01:42 PM
Antonio Correia

Re: Dad

Quote:

Originally Posted by peterb533

In a cafe at Sidmouth, shot with Fuji GA645Zi on Fuji Pro160C film, F6.7 at 1/125sec. Processed in Lightroom 3 from scanned negative.

http://a.imageshack.us/img820/1323/0054edit.jpg

This is the kind of portrait which is contextualized as the foreground and the background let us know where your dad was and what he was doing at the moment of the shot.
The background is not a brilliant one indeed because it is too noise,there is a door, a way out, a wall with lots of texture, some lights or so it seams, but ...
I am sorry that he is not looking to the other side or that there isn't more image on the right right (our right side) as he is looking this way. May be you could "darken" the background...:rolleyes:
The "treatment" you imposed the image is not of my preference but that, as well as other aspects, is quite personal and if you like it... Fine.:)

Thank you for posting Peter. :):)
6th August 2010, 02:39 PM
peterb533

Re: Dad

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

This is the kind of portrait which is contextualized as the foreground and the background let us know where your dad was and what he was doing at the moment of the shot.
The background is not a brilliant one indeed because it is too noise,there is a door, a way out, a wall with lots of texture, some lights or so it seams, but ...
I am sorry that he is not looking to the other side or that there isn't more image on the right right (our right side) as he is looking this way. May be you could "darken" the background...:rolleyes:
The "treatment" you imposed the image is not of my preference but that, as well as other aspects, is quite personal and if you like it... Fine.:)

Thank you for posting Peter. :):)

Thanks for your comments. Wasn't sure of the image treatment myself, just trying some effects in Lightroom. Here is the original with the background darkened as you suggested :)

http://a.imageshack.us/img580/8223/00543.jpg
6th August 2010, 02:45 PM
Antonio Correia

Re: Dad

Quote:

Originally Posted by peterb533

Thanks for your comments. Wasn't sure of the image treatment myself, just trying some effects in Lightroom. Here is the original with the background darkened as you suggested :)

http://a.imageshack.us/img580/8223/00543.jpg

Oh yes. :) For me it is much better now :)
However, I would introduce an overall "darker" image except for his face.
With a mask, curves, whatever. Care to try please ? :) :)
Thank you. I think - my straight point of view - that it has been already a great improvement. I am sure he - dad - will like this one better. :)
12th August 2010, 10:15 PM
Antonio Correia

Grand son and Grand mother

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/...c611c38c_z.jpg
13th August 2010, 12:22 AM
Alis

Re: Grand son and Grand mother

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonio Correia

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/...c611c38c_z.jpg

Great one, Antonio! Very colorful, I like the directional light and the expression on her/his face.
13th August 2010, 08:28 AM
Antonio Correia

Re: Grand son and Grand mother

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alis

Great one, Antonio! Very colorful, I like the directional light and the expression on her/his face.

Thank you Alis :) His face actually:)
14th August 2010, 02:35 AM
Alis

Pleasure of Eating Chocolate

http://i33.tinypic.com/315omev.jpg

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