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Originally Posted by Okayyou
Nice work Glowrock. I think this one:
or this one are your best.
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. |
Okayyou, thanks for your thoughts, opinions and suggestions. It's very much appreciated!
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)