Bah!!! My post didn't work and I lost all of what I wrote.
The TL;DR.... New Tamron 85mm lens, New Godox AD600 strobe in TTL shot with D810. Welcome to CC's or happy to answer questions.
Bah!!! My post didn't work and I lost all of what I wrote.
The TL;DR.... New Tamron 85mm lens, New Godox AD600 strobe in TTL shot with D810. Welcome to CC's or happy to answer questions.
Love, love, LOVE this shoot!!! So much wonderful stuff going on--gorgeous model, beautiful setting, lovely light. Really nice work!
I'm with Nicole, beautiful model, beautiful lighting, you've really handled the exposure superbly well with great use of bokeh, fantastic catch-lights in the models eyes, and I am assuming, really nice post-processing work to make it the images look really natural. Really like these a lot.
You did ask for some CC so I really do hope you don't mind these (personal) comments;
Image 1. The bottom left corner, there is a branch coming in from the corner. Once I saw it, I couldn't blank it out and it started to distract me. Maybe it could have been moved?
Image 3. Did you mean to cut the top of her head off? I know some people will do this intentionally for effect and would be keen to hear if you did mean this or not.
Image 4. Top left corner this time. a tiny area of green background that could be removed, dodged or cropped out.
Image 5. Same top of the head cut off, which is why I wondered if this is what you were going for in both this image and image 3?
Image 6. Blade of grass/fern across her shoe/foot. Could possible have been removed with a "spot of gardening" as many of my judges have said......
Image 7. Same thing, stem across the front of her dress that maybe could have been snipped at the time.
These are all really trivial and possibly petty comments but that's because these images are so darn good that there isn't much else to pick out on them!
Again, absolutely superb images! I am sure the model is delighted with them (as should the photographer be!)
I'm the first to admit I don't know a thing about doing this type of posed shoot, so I've nothing to say about the poses. However, there's one technical issue that's really jumped out at me across several postings you've made here and since I've been resolving for years to get better about giving C&C, here it goes...
A combination of lighting, focus and post processing (specifically sharpening and contrast) have hyper-emphasized your subject's makeup. It's not such an issue viewing at smaller sizes, but once you zoom in a little, not only does the makeup jump out, so does much of the skin texture and imperfection it's meant to hide. The effect is especially pronounced in this series and in your fitness set. While still kind of present, it's much less visible in your river and vintage shoots.
Please take this in the constructive spirit it's intended. You've otherwise done a lovely job.
I'm the first to admit I don't know a thing about doing this type of posed shoot, so I've nothing to say about the poses. However, there's one technical issue that's really jumped out at me across several postings you've made here and since I've been resolving for years to get better about giving C&C, here it goes...
A combination of lighting, focus and post processing (specifically sharpening and contrast) have hyper-emphasized your subject's makeup. It's not such an issue viewing at smaller sizes, but once you zoom in a little, not only does the makeup jump out, so does much of the skin texture and imperfection it's meant to hide. The effect is especially pronounced in this series and in your fitness set. While still kind of present, it's much less visible in your river and vintage shoots.
Please take this in the constructive spirit it's intended. You've otherwise done a lovely job.
Cheers.... I appreciate any feedback.
I actually think it is more a case of using a D810 and capturing details others don't. Also I think we are so accustomed to seeing poorly done retouching with overly blurred skin that it almost seems jarring to actually see skin texture. I have not applied any sharpening to the face, nor did I add any contrast to these images other than the contrast achieved with the lighting, which probably does emphasise it a little. The make up here was not done professionally, so room for improvement there.
The fitness shoot? Yeah. Clarity was turned up to eleven for the processing style in that one. And I did do some smoothing to her face in those ones. As did the vintage shoot, had a fair amount of skin smoothing done in those ones. My first time I really played with any form of retouching. And still learning...
But funnily enough this isn't the first time I have heard this, so maybe something for me to take on board?
Are you still using frequency separation in Photoshop, Darryl?
Great shots btw.
--Ron
Cheers.... I appreciate any feedback.
I actually think it is more a case of using a D810 and capturing details others don't. Also I think we are so accustomed to seeing poorly done retouching with overly blurred skin that it almost seems jarring to actually see skin texture. I have not applied any sharpening to the face, nor did I add any contrast to these images other than the contrast achieved with the lighting, which probably does emphasise it a little. The make up here was not done professionally, so room for improvement there.
The fitness shoot? Yeah. Clarity was turned up to eleven for the processing style in that one. And I did do some smoothing to her face in those ones. As did the vintage shoot, had a fair amount of skin smoothing done in those ones. My first time I really played with any form of retouching. And still learning...
But funnily enough this isn't the first time I have heard this, so maybe something for me to take on board?