January 2013 Portraits

[searover]

I'd love to hear thoughts!

Vince,
I love it, what lens gave you that oof result? It's wonderful, could you have stopped down to sharpen those arms a bit? Not that it's needed, just wondering...

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Sergei,
Now that's Retro, and a good use of your Dorf.


John

[SergeiR]

I'd love to hear thoughts!

since you asked.. And keep in mind - there are many schools and many choices.. Personally i'd turn her head and shoulders a bit. There is no reason for being dead centered and also if she would turn a bit towards it - light would fill up face a bit better. And unless you were going for helpless child look "i am kid, you adult, i loose, you win" - moving camera point a bit down might be good choice. But then its just me

[SergeiR]

Sergei,
Now that's Retro, and a good use of your Dorf.


John

Thanks i almost cursed myself for not bringing Ektachrome sheet for that sitting, b/c it would look great in proper colour.. But oh well.. Originally we were to shoot b&w , so just had to roll (i honestly offered to shoot it with velvia, but it didnt feel right, so we didn't go for it).

[Ramiro Elena]

It is perfect as it is. The strengh of the image comes from the pose and the way it was lit. Having her turn her head would defeat the purpouse and turn it into something completely different (which would still be nice).
The out of focus area in the bottom bothers me though along with the fact that it seems to be losing density.

It is a fantastic portrait. I hate cropping but in this case I would above the elbows.

I'd love to hear thoughts!

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[Noeyedear]

Sergie,
I like this. Looking at your set on Flikr they all have that airbrushed look, do they spend a lot of time in Photoshop?

Kevin.

8x10 Arista, cropped a bit, 360mm Symmar-S, softened. Deardorff (b/c i mean come on.. what else can be used to shoot american retro?!)


Flossie by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

[SergeiR]

Sergie,
I like this. Looking at your set on Flikr they all have that airbrushed look, do they spend a lot of time in Photoshop?

Thank you, Kevin.
I can honestly say that i do spend more time cleaning up dust and speckles than actually retouching image itself.

However, yes, i do spend between 15 minutes to hour, when work with portraits, to get things a bit cleaned up. Good lighting modifiers help a lot, and i always do take few digital polaroid shots before getting film shot, to make sure that i got angles right, pores a not showing up too much (when its regular portrait). 3D airbrushed look, specially for web, is actually not that hard to make, when working with strobes. I always set up light for very specific pose (when i am shooting my own stuff, and have somewhat unlimited time), sometime irritating hell out of people, b.c they would move like a feet out, and i would run around, moving and tweaking things again

In this case i am not super happy with how some of light spilled through hair onto face from two sources on the right, making uneven spots on her face. Might come back to do more retouching on it.

[D-tach]

Charlotte



Deardorff 5x7 - Arista EDU Ultra 200 - Imagon 250

[Miguel Coquis]

Warm tones, very soft pleasant image !
Like an interlude...

[Roger Cole]

8x10 Arista, cropped a bit, 360mm Symmar-S, softened. Deardorff (b/c i mean come on.. what else can be used to shoot american retro?!)


Flossie by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

Beautiful Sergei! Beautiful model, beautiful photograph!

[chassis]

D-tach, nice image. The intent pose and soft effect work well together.