The cold weather kept us inside today, and I'm very pleased because I got to practice shooting through a doorway to get some nice, soft directional light. These two images were shot with a canon 5dmkiii and an 85mm 1.8 lens.
Constructive criticism always welcome.
Doorway photos
Hi Nic, first of all, these shots are miles ahead of my abilities at this point. I'm not new to photography but I am new to portraiture and I find it very challenging. I assume you did a little retouching to their skin. If so it looks fairly natural. I'm having a hard time figuring out if the eyes are as sharp as the should be. They may very well be but I lost my prescription glasses and I'm wearing a pair of cheap reading glasses just to get through my work day. There does seem to be some sort of wierd, greenish, glare or smudge or something on the second girl's right eye. I'm sure someone with years of experience will eventually post and offer much more useful criticism to help you improve your skills but to me, you did a fairly good job other than the green wierdnes.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. I've been learning a lot about portraits in the past couple months and recently bought Dani Diamonds natural light tutorial. I have been trying to really achieve a natural retouch look.
Because I was shooting through the front door of the house, her glasses were reflecting the green grass from the front yard. I tried to tone it down a bit but was more focused on the rest of the retouching. I'm taking it as a lesson learned to really pay attention to glares and reflections when it comes to shooting people with glasses.
Reflections from glasses is a challenge for me. One idea that has helped me is to tilt the glasses down slightly so the glasses are not reflecting back into the camera lens. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just changes to a reflection of something else. If they tilt too much, it looks odd.
I really like the pose and the lighting.
Nice use of his Technique ..especially editing looks good on second one as per his tutorial... can you mentioned the EXIF data for the same.