Saturday, July 13, 2019
Portraits
For my portraits I took some of my new little kitten, my dog, and my girlfriend. This is our last week so I hope everyone enjoyed the class because I actually did a lot and hope everyone has a great rest of summer and stays safe. If you have ever commented on something of mine and I never got back to you I am very sorry I was very busy with work and everything else and I would never get a notification or check and if you did I appreciate I enjoyed viewing everyone’s captures throughout these weeks.
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I'm so glad you enjoyed the class Rob…
ReplyDeleteI think the most successful picture of the series is the second one of your kitty. The way she is leaning into the threshold of the door in the light coming across her face, the neutral background and the general composition as well as the editing makes this one hold together the best. As you can see this is a bit of a tricky assignment when it comes to living things that are not always cooperative and we tend not to be able to control the composition is easily as we can with inanimate objects.
Back to the first one of your girlfriend, it would've improved a bit if you could've moved your position to the left a bit more and brought the camera position up higher. The main issue with this one however is the use of the wide-angle lens… When we do portraits the wide-angle tends to distort facial features creating noses chins and cheeks that are much larger than they appear to us with our regular normal vision. With Apple's new portrait mode, the camera has an extra lens that is a telephoto one. It creates much more pleasing proportions of the face as well as throws the background out of focus which help separate the face from the background.
The editing on the third one of the kitty is a bit dark so remember to work for focal point which would be the face and to keep that the light is part.
See how the long fur for over your dogs eyes creates a kind of baseball hat brim shielding the eyes from the light? It's in the small details that we start to become stronger photographers. How to fix that? Get the puppy to look up into the light more.
Number five of the cat is decent in the series however it's a bit contrasty.
Lastly, shot number seven of your girlfriend could use a little less heaviness on the black side of things and again would be greatly improved with more of a telephoto lens. You can achieve that within a phone cam by pinching open on the screen a little bit to keep you back from her more yet fill the frame with her face and shoulder. I like the framing on this one the most of the series.
Have a great rest of the summer and take care.