Motif: Photo Day Exercise

Posted by Griffin on Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:12 am

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Last Sunday, I just took a break from birding and joined a photo day organized by a local university (nothing academic btw). I had a practice of joining activity at least once a year to brush my portrait skill. There are quite a large number in the backlog back then. I just pick one randomly to join the motif.

EOS D30, EF50mm USM, f/4, 1/200s, ISO100, manual exposure, built-in flash, FEV +1, handheld, 89% of original, Camera RAW, BreezeBrowser 2.6.

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by AForns on Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:30 am

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I like the pose & hat excellent idea!!!

Would consider front lighting (like we do for birds

) to even out the light on the face or getting in the shade.

btw the fill flash was very efficient since you do have to look hard for shadows

I like it as presented very nice and thanks for posting!!!!

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by Steve Mason on Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:48 am

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I like the composition here, and the hat.

2 Minor nits:
The whites look just a tad hot in a couple of spots on my LCD here
I find the fencepost/lattice just a smidge distracting, but those are both pretty minor.

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by Paul Klenck on Mon Sep 27, 2004 3:03 pm

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Fine image and I agree with Steve's comments. However, I'm not sure of Alfred's suggestion of front lighting. I like the "sculpting" quality of the sidelight you used, and the shadows are not a problem since you used fill flash.

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by KK Hui on Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:59 pm

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Griffin,

Shooting portrait is quite different from shooting birds particularly in the use of light ... It's not easy to use direct light to its best in portrait shots! :roll:

For your image, three improvements to consider ...
1. BG is too distracting. Here you want a clean one just like you would with bird shots.
2. You have a 'white' nose on the model in this case due to side lighting. Use back lighting instead and add light using soft reflector.
3. A medium tele would give a more pleasing bg and the compression look for portrait.

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by Griffin on Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:55 am

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KK Hui wrote:Griffin,

Shooting portrait is quite different from shooting birds particularly in the use of light ... It's not easy to use direct light to its best in portrait shots! :roll:

For your image, three improvements to consider ...
1. BG is too distracting. Here you want a clean one just like you would with bird shots.
2. You have a 'white' nose on the model in this case due to side lighting. Use back lighting instead and add light using soft reflector.
3. A medium tele would give a more pleasing bg and the compression look for portrait.

Oops! Must have picked a bad one. I have taken over 300 photos combined by both cameras that day ( 50mm for D30 and 70-200mm for 10D ). All but this one is processed. :roll:

As for the side-light and "white nose", they are something I have learnt from this exercise. Thank you for pointing out. It was not that much crowded I should have placed a better position.

My only external flash is on the 10D but not on D30 - so I have to use D30 built-in flash and adjust the apeature to compensate.