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Afternoon portraits

Postby rooboy on Wed May 02, 2007 8:49 pm

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Both shot with the 85/1.8. C&C welcome.
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Postby Yi-P on Wed May 02, 2007 8:53 pm

#1 is magic!! How did that halo effect happen there? :D

Kris should have that on her forum avatar :lol:
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Postby Alex on Wed May 02, 2007 9:11 pm

The backlighting on no. 1 is superb! Love it!
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Postby firsty on Wed May 02, 2007 10:41 pm

the first one should be in This months "Elements in Style" exercise as it would be the first conforming entry and you could pick next months topic.

Contre-jour for sure :)

http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?p=294433&highlight=#294433
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Postby rooboy on Thu May 03, 2007 8:41 am

Yi-P wrote:#1 is magic!! How did that halo effect happen there? :D


She was between me and the sun - I just dialled in some negative exposure compensation to make her a silhouette :)

Firsty, it was actually taken last month, so I don't think it qualifies. Will definitely be participating in this month's ES though :D
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Postby marcotrov on Thu May 03, 2007 7:44 pm

Number one is elegant contre-jour. I like it.
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Postby ATJ on Thu May 03, 2007 8:51 pm

Yi-P wrote:#1 is magic!!

I couldn't say it better myself.
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Postby bwhinnen on Thu May 03, 2007 9:29 pm

The first one is magnificent, no doubts.

But I like the second one, it tells a story of Kris intently looking for that next shot on a nice afternoon, finger poised on the shutter release ;)
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Postby Matt. K on Thu May 03, 2007 11:32 pm

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First is excellent...second shot, your subject looks to limp/placid. You need to get her animated in order to get some interesting lines and negative spaces in the image. A hand on her hip and a stance with attitude would have worked wonders. I do love the light and background treatment.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri May 04, 2007 2:24 pm

Love the first and the second Patrick well done, and credit to Kris for providing the modelling. I assume the second was a candid ? If not then as Matt said you could bring more of a dynamic feel to it, with a slightly more dramatic pose.
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