Snow shoot!

[Seanwins]

C & C welcome! I travelled to Leavenworth, WA and took some pics of my friends while I was there. Tell me what you think or how I could improve them. They were all taken with just available light which was really dim with low clouds and some mist. They came out very grainy. I need to get noise ninja.


My buddy Jay.
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q151/Seanwins/Jay.jpg

His wife Gail. I love the heart of snow.

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q151/Seanwins/GailHeart.jpg

Jay and Gail

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q151/Seanwins/JGHEARTKISS.jpg

Jay and I. I love the new remote.

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q151/Seanwins/Gsmileheart.jpg

[LCF]

Why are you so much bigger than Jay? :p
heheh

nice, i'm jealous, we don't have snow yet-?!?

[Art Rodriguez]

I like the second one with the heart of snow. I think with a little PP these can go a long way. I'm not good at PP so I can't offer any suggestions except maybe to try and convert them to B&W and see how they look.

Art

[Dante King]

nice captures. colors seem washed out.

[Seanwins]

Yeah it is. I had to crank the ISO up to 1600 to get a decent exposure and the snow was playing hell with the WB.

[Rellik]

Nice pictures. A bit cool in the pictures. Add some reds back in will give it a bit more life in some of the pictures.

I see that you are using f/5.6 @ 18mm. Since the background isn't too spectacular, you can use a bigger aperture and probably be safe at around ISO 400.

As you probably know already, the last one is out of focus. I do have a hard time with using a remote as well. Try setting it up so you focus on your friend first, then switch the lens to manual focus, then hop back in for the picture.

[D. Craig Flory]

I see a fun series. I also see an opportunity lost. If you had created them at least 3 to 4 times as far away you would have had some great captures. The surroundings, in outdoor images, helps to tell the story. You could do images inside on a white background but ... you had a wonderful location and failed to show much of it.

[Grace]

nice, i'm jealous, we don't have snow yet-?!?


yet? we don't even get snow...ever. well, I think 3 times in my lifetime I have seen snow here.

KP

nice pics.. I agree they are not portraits..but great captures of fun times with your friends!

[Noelle8818]

I love the one with the two of them and the snow heart. As I saw her picture with the heart, I thought it'd be a cute shot of the two of them with it. Imagine my pleasure when I saw that very shot next! :D Great shots!

[Dante King]

I see a fun series. I also see an opportunity lost. If you had created them at least 3 to 4 times as far away you would have had some great captures. The surroundings, in outdoor images, helps to tell the story.

Sorry I have to disagree here. Think the subjects are perfectly framed. There is nothing, I could see from the Posters description or setting that could make this so. I could be wrong, so if I am let me know. It would be a first. :)

[Seanwins]

Thanks everyone for the comments. It seems like as I try to take some blue out and put red back in the picture quality suffers even more.

[Titus213]

Hmmm, cold heart. Warm hands?

Fun series but you can keep the snow. I've seen more of it than I should have.