You're the portrait master.
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I can smell the patchouli from here! :haha:
Oh, just an fyi - it's the West *Side* Market :) |
Great! People shots, especially faces are about the second most captivating photos after the architecture. At least in my priorities. :P
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There are the people!
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Great shots! :)
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portraits, city chicken and statue boobs? good thread!
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Hi.
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BTW, a serious question for everyone. Which of those portrait shots do you think is the best? I'm kind of torn between the guitar-playing dude and the woman wearing the white hat. The brother-sister duo was great as well, but I'm just trying to get an idea of how to best take portraits. Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions? Aaron (Glowrock) |
Look at you go! These are really amazing! My favorite is the harmonica guy, seems like you caught him in a genuine moment. What lens / lenses did you use for the portraits?
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Nice job with these!
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And thanks for the kind words! Aaron (Glowrock) |
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http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps31d01343.jpg or this one are your best. http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/t...pse489d310.jpg The top one captures the authentic emotion of the man. I think the framing is too tight, especially on the left side. A few steps back would give the photo a little more room to breath. You got a nice blur of the background which helps keep the focus on the subject but I think the background is too bright. You could easily darken it in post. The second one is a nice candid shot. I think the framing is a little tight and a slightly different angle could have improved the composition. For instance, I'm not sure cropping the left side of his hat improves the photo while including a small portion of the harmonica player to the right is distracting. Like the first shot, the background is too bright. There is a lot of white taking the focus away from the subject. It will be harder to drop the brightness of the background in this shot since there is so much white. I think the exposure would have had to have been less in camera and then you could have brightened the guitar player in post. Portraits are not easy, there is a lot to get right. Generally I think it is important to pay attention to the background and the light. Anyway, maybe that is more details than you wanted. It's always great to see the people of a city. Nice work. |
Good Stuff Aaron. I like the first guy, though he did remind me a bit of "The Iceman" (a hitman for the Mafia). :runaway:
And what the heck was Mike doing in Cleveland? |
geez i really could not say. i like'm all. i just like real life scene portraits like these.
hmm, ok. i'll say the woman above the cannoli sign shot, because its tight, head-on and bright. then the two girls -- nice to mix in a tight shot of two people. also, the kid with the plaid shirt and coke. just because its also nice to mix in a 3/4 shot like that with a sharp background contrast. i guess im just saying i like a mix because really all of these are pretty much equally good stuff here. |
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I definitely agree with many of your suggestions. To be honest, it turns out I had forgotten to check the ISO I had set the other evening before starting to shoot, and as a result, it was set entirely too high for these shots in general. As we all know here, that leads to an f-stop in the 5-8 range and not closer to 2.8, so of course I wasn't getting the nice relatively shallow depth of field and thus the nicer bokeh I would have gotten if I wouldn't have been a complete idiot and fixed the setting in my camera before shooting those photos! :( Ah well, life goes on. As for the framing of a few of those shots, I actually did a little cropping of some of those images. I think a few of the ones you specifically mentioned were somewhat cropped, but I have to go back and check them. Perhaps I can make some adjustments. Thanks again! Aaron (Glowrock) |
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