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We needed photos taken for profile pictures for Office 2010 at work. Quick and dirty as gently caress. The background is the back of a door in a meeting room. Natural light from a window from the front, fluorescent lights above and I bounced a flash off a whiteboard on the wall to my right. I was pretty pleased with how they turned out considering. A prize* goes to the first person who guesses what industry I work in.  *there is no prize
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We usually have to wear business shirts, but we have casual Fridays and that's when I had my camera in the office. So yes, of course it's IT.
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Nov 7, 2010 01:17
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We're a managed services IT company, it's not everyone but there's helpdesk monkeys, a couple of network engineers/architects and a couple of business/project managers. Our developers declined the invitation to have their photos taken.
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Nov 7, 2010 23:24
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The vignette is waaaaaay over the top on that first one and I'm not a fan of the colour tones in either one sorry guy :/ The crop on the first shot feels awkward and you've cut her feet off on the second one. That being said, feel free to rip into me, I did a portrait/maternity shoot on Sunday. Shot on a Canon 7D with a Sigma 30mm f/1.4 and Canon 85mm f/1.8      psylent fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Nov 15, 2010 |
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Nov 15, 2010 14:19
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She's due in 2-3 weeks. Asian chicks, whatchagonnado?
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Nov 15, 2010 22:08
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Thanks Arinel! Every session I have is more practice, I'll probably mess around with them a bit more in Lightroom this evening.
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Nov 16, 2010 08:00
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Arinel posted:You're doing better than me! I wish I could make money out of photos. :P You can get paid for photography, it just takes some effort on the marketing side of things. Whenever I meet someone through work or anywhere else I drop it into conversation and even that I'm a photographer/I'm shooting a wedding this weekend etc. This maternity shoot was actually my physiotherapist and his wife 
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Nov 16, 2010 23:15
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Did you use some kind of snoot pointed at his head on that second shot?
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Dec 8, 2010 09:09
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Righto, I've taken a few portraits as part of my 365 recently and I'm relatively happy with. Please feel free to rip them apart: Quick snap of my grandfather using daylight through a window with a thin white curtain for lighting.  My dad, using a bright but overcast day as lighting.  Headshot for a wedding planner I do work with every now and then. Awesome golden hour lighting. Minor Photoshopping on this to remove stray hairs/lessen the wrinkles etc.
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Jan 15, 2011 13:27
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She did repeatedly say she hates having her photo taken, and we only had about 15 mins to do the shoot. Portraiture's something I really want to work on, and I'm learning that a big part of it isn't the technical side of things; it's also making your subject feel comfortable and relaxed among other things. I think that's why my family portraits are a bit stronger. Her smile definitely looks forced. edit: she just emailed to say she was really happy with it. I'll keep your advice in mind for next time anyway:) psylent fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Jan 16, 2011 |
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Jan 16, 2011 01:29
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AtomicManiac posted:Aside from the "White Line" on the last one, your dad appears to look considerably older than your grandfather. I don't know if this is actually the case (IE: Hard lifestyle) or if the black and white is really making his wrinkles pop out more than they should. BobTheCow posted:The "quick snap" part of your grandfather really shows, the sloppy background (picture frame growing out of his head, window or something just peeking in on the left) kills it for me. Glad everyone likes the Dad portrait, I'm pretty happy with it.
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Jan 16, 2011 06:36
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Penpal - are the skin tones accurate on that shot? Does anyone have a link to that website that has the same model shot at focal lengths from 10mm-400mm? I really need to bookmark it.
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Jan 18, 2011 02:15
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mr. mephistopheles posted:The more time I spend here the more I realize how ridiculously low the expectations of non-photographers are, which is cool, because that's usually who is giving you money to take pictures. And that raises all kinds of fun philosophical questions about what qualifies art as good.
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Jan 18, 2011 06:42
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Man_alive posted:
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Jan 21, 2011 14:30
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This was a corporate headshot thingy I did: It looks fine in Lightroom, but the blacks are really black after export some reason. Lightroom on the right :/ 
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Feb 8, 2011 13:33
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:This looks pretty solid except her skin tone looks a little too grey, I think it might be just a tad underexposed. 
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Feb 11, 2011 13:48
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It looks like the background was composited in
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Feb 14, 2011 12:43
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AIIAZNSK8ER - I think you've got the right attitude to be honest. These are just portraits of local business owners and they're solid, they're not supposed to be high art. As you go along you can start experimenting with different lighting etc, but for what they are they do the job. I remember your pregnancy yoga shoot as being quite fun
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Feb 17, 2011 06:27
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 I took and posted this one a while ago. I liked it, and people seem to like it a lot so I've entered my first photography competition with it. Hopefully it'll lead to something.
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Mar 1, 2011 13:22
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Arinel posted:What comp? psylent fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Mar 2, 2011 |
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Mar 2, 2011 03:45
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I did a couple of corporate headshot dealies a while back for a company I used to work for but never got around to posting them here for some savage crit. These are all from separate sessions hence the inconsistency in head sizes. The last one was shot landscape as the lady was 8 months pregnant and didn't want her belly showing. My lighting setup isn't spectacular. I've got a 580exII (good!) and a 420ex (bad!) as it fires at full power every time. 580ex firing through a shoot through umbrella to subject right as key. 420ex snooted, diffused and bouncing off a wall to the subject's left as fill.   They wanted a shot on white for this one, so I fired the 480ex at the wall behind her and did the usual umbrella on the subject's right deal. I can see the whiteness is overpowering around the edges of her hair.  For the next time I do this I can already tell that I'm going to need a hair light when I'm shooting on a black background. Now rip me apart and make me a new man.
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Mar 2, 2011 14:25
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Also, corporate headshots are disgustingly boring. 
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Mar 3, 2011 00:37
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They were shot on a Canon 7D/85mm at f/8 | 1/250 - I see what you mean about the softness though. I have no idea where that came from I'm going to attempt to take 40 street portraits in Sydney's red light district this Wednesday evening as part of an assignment a photography class I'm attending. Hope I don't get beaten up!
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Mar 14, 2011 02:13
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Elite Taco posted:Did my first OCF shoot yesterday:
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Jun 29, 2011 06:04
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Shot a friend's band. It was my first time doing this sort of thing but luckily all the guys in the band were more than happy to ham it up for the camera:   Their Facebook page is here. psylent fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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Jun 29, 2011 15:32
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I know everyone's down on Portrait Professional due to the real doll-like stuff they advertise with, but I gave it a try and it's not actually that bad if you turn the sliders way down. These are all pretty much straight out of camera and thrown into PP - about 10 mins work total. I'm trying to get a bit more work doing corporate headshots (boring but easy money) and this is making my life a lot easier.    It's on sale for $40 so it wasn't a hard decision.
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Jul 6, 2011 15:34
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That's racist.
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Jul 11, 2011 03:34
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Had some friends over for dinner, they're about to fly home to the UK to get married so I set up a quick shot. Reflective umbrella on camera right, big white reflector on the left. Bit of split toning/level adjustment in Lightroom. psylent fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Jul 12, 2011 |
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Jul 12, 2011 05:45
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Nicely done Paragon! Congratulations. Site is offline at the moment though 
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Jul 13, 2011 00:39
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^^^^ It's her mouth in that particular shot. Scroll up and hide the bottom half of her face. I shot a family portrait session for a friend. This was taken the moment her son burped in her face  
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Sep 27, 2011 15:58
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They're much brighter in LightRoom, but whenever I export stuff to JPG it seems to darken it. There's no vignette in LR either. It's like it turns the blacks up to 7-8 and adds a vignette on export, I've triple checked and nothing is being applied on export. It's saving as sRGB so I'm at a bit of a loss to explain it all really
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Sep 28, 2011 02:10
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Nah, you can do a lot with sunlight and a reflector. And a reflector can be an actual reflector, some white cardboard or a brick wall or anything really Here's a couple of my wife that I was pretty happy with. Taken in the afternoon with some nice light coming in from the window, and one taken at a friend's wedding, again with natural light bouncing in through a window:  
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Sep 29, 2011 07:28
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I did a shoot for a friend's band: Highly original concept:  
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Oct 7, 2011 00:57
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Paragon8 posted:gotta watch the focus when you have them standing at different distances from the camera
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Oct 7, 2011 01:34
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Good points. I was just using a flash on a stand behind them for the back light. I probably should have used an umbrella or something to spread the light a bit more. Here's another one from the same session (this is straight out of camera, I'm aware of the flash stand): 
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Oct 7, 2011 02:33
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I hate shooting babies, what you need is their parents right behind you dancing around making idiots of themselves so that the kid looks vaguely in your direction and smiles.
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Oct 10, 2011 05:04
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CarrotFlowers posted:His expression in this one is awesome...hehe The good thing about photographing kids is that the parents are so besotted with their own children, so all you have do is get a nicely exposed shot that is in focus with a shallow depth of field and they'll be extremely happy. If you can get the kid into a non-awkward pose and manage a nice composition as well then you're more than golden. I don't really enjoy shooting kids, so I really only do close friends' kids. 
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Oct 11, 2011 13:19
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That took 100 frames? I barely know what I'm doing and can get a decent Breznier effect happening with about 20 shots, and that includes full body and surrounds!
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Nov 15, 2011 05:28
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Had a workshop today, this is once I snapped while she was posing for the teacher. It's amazing what you can do at 6400 ISO.  It's also amazing what a difference working with a model who knows how to dress, how to pose and a make up artist who does a good job. Aside from curves, minor exposure adjustments and some very light split toning, I've done nothing to these shots. It'd be so nice to photograph pretty people all the time. psylent fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Nov 21, 2011 |
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XTimmy posted:The bridal one looks like a tad under, I feel like that dress and the highlights on her face should be a great deal brighter. QPZIL posted:Agreed, there's no real true white point in the image. The other one's got a good tonal range though. xenilk, as usual your stuff is looking great
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