Weddingguy wrote:
Decades ago when I was in the stages of learning portrait lighting, my mentor made a statement that has stuck with me since . . . he said, "take the subject to the light".
You have certainly done that as your choice of lighting is great.
Your posing is quite good, but you do have to watch for things like cutting limbs off at joints, showing the back of hands flat instead of the more graceful edges, having subjects from straight on frontal view instead of having the body turned slightly, and a few other knit picking things . . . but all in all quite good.
The "portrait pro" treatment on the group shot is a bit over done, especially on the man on which skin softening should not be done as it is very un-masculine. If you did it on the girls individual portraits, it is well done.
The first impact from your images was that they really lack "pop" and badly needed adjustments on the black and white clipping. I did not mind the lower than normal saturation, but in the examples below I did increase it by 10% . . . not a lot. Sometimes I believe we tend to be influenced by television which is mostly over saturated in my opinion.
I am not seeing an over abundance of red on my calibrated monitor, so left it as your original.
Hope this helps.
Great job!!!
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Thanks weddingguy for all the great comments! Hope you will be able to post your edits.
bkyser
Loc: Fly over country in Indiana
Weddingguy nailed it with his edits. I'm guessing from your other posts that your screen is probably needing calibrated not just for color, but brightness. If your monitor is set too bright, those of us with calibrated monitors will see your uploads as very dark, because you adjust your photos based on the brightness of your screen. I would also venture to guess that if you print your photos, they tend to show up way darker than what you see on your monitor.
I'm not a "run out and spend your money" kind of guy, but calibrating a monitor for photographic work is one of the most important things you can do when you are trying to get actual prints to look good. I'm still old school in that a photo isn't a photo, until it is on paper.
bkyser wrote:
Weddingguy nailed it with his edits. I'm guessing from your other posts that your screen is probably needing calibrated not just for color, but brightness. If your monitor is set too bright, those of us with calibrated monitors will see your uploads as very dark, because you adjust your photos based on the brightness of your screen. I would also venture to guess that if you print your photos, they tend to show up way darker than what you see on your monitor.
I'm not a "run out and spend your money" kind of guy, but calibrating a monitor for photographic work is one of the most important things you can do when you are trying to get actual prints to look good. I'm still old school in that a photo isn't a photo, until it is on paper.
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Bkyser, I really appreciate you taking the time and effort to aid my understanding about calibration. I will look into getting a calibrator. Any suggestions on what kind? I run a Mac Pro with retina screen.
bkyser
Loc: Fly over country in Indiana
Moxie wrote:
Bkyser, I really appreciate you taking the time and effort to aid my understanding about calibration. I will look into getting a calibrator. Any suggestions on what kind? I run a Mac Pro with retina screen.
Pretty sure it is a "Ford, vs. Chevy" or "Canon vs. Nikon"
I got a used Spydercheckr, but hear that people are just as satisfied with Colormonkey
bkyser wrote:
Pretty sure it is a "Ford, vs. Chevy" or "Canon vs. Nikon"
I got a used Spydercheckr, but hear that people are just as satisfied with Colormonkey
Thanks again! I see the colormulki is about half the price of a Spyder.
bkyser
Loc: Fly over country in Indiana
Moxie wrote:
Thanks again! I see the colormulki is about half the price of a Spyder.
Got mine from ebay a while ago. It is an older model, but still works fine with my Win7 stuff. (nope, haven't upgraded, and probably won't. Nothing against Win10, I'm just not computer savvy, and all the talk about fixes and work arounds, sounds like a foreign language)
When I get a new machine, I'll get what's current.
bk
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