NEW LENS, SAME BEAUTIFUL MODEL, C&C PLEASE

[lvthebroncos]

Hello everyone! I got my 85mm f1.8 yesterday, OMG I love this lens!!!! I was just playing around in my makeshift home studio and was snapping some shots of my daughter. Now I know that when the model is beautiful (not biased at all...:wink: ) it makes your job easier but it has never been this easy to get amazing shots as it has been with this lens! I must have took about 100 shots with her and only had to toss about 10 and that was due not liking the pose or facial expression. Best purchase I have ever made. From a newbie standpoint, is there anything I could have done with lighting/composition etc. that would have made the shot even better???

[Attic]

Nice smile equals great picture. #1 is the better composed shot IMO. Glad you like your new lense.

[Mike_Canon5D]

This is a great lens for the price. Excellent work there. #1 has the best composition.

[Robert_Lay]

I agree with the others about #1 having the better composition - #2 seems to be cropped a little too tight for me. However, as a fan of Rembrandt lighting, I really like the lighting in #2 far better than #1. It has better 3-dimensionality in the facial structures. In #1, the lighting is too flat in my opinion.

Congratulations on both pictures.

[lvthebroncos]

Thank you to all who responded. Robert I see what you mean by the lighting, I would have never seen it that way so thank you for pointing that out. Thanks again everyone!

[Meaty0]

Oh dear, I think I disagree with Bob...well just a little :-) I really like No1. And I like the lighting in it too because I think it suits the pose. I've noticed glamour-type shots like that, tend to have flat, front-on lighting, usually a light above the model and one below to remove all shadows. Instead of lighting to give the face depth, make-up is used and I think the make-up does the job here.

If I had to make any changes to No. 1, I think it would look fantastic done with a dreamy "soft focus" treatment and maybe reduce the blemish a little on your daughter's beautiful nose. (Glamour photographers remove ALL blemishes, but I'm not a big fan of that.)

Your very lucky to have that lens and such a beautiful model/daughter AND to have such a good eye for posing her.

[lvthebroncos]

I really just need to break down and get photohsop, I do not have any image editing program except for Microsoft Office Image Editor which just doesn't cut it in most applications. The blemish on her nose was a scab and so I didn't want to cake the make-up on too much. Thank you for all the wonderful input, it is greatly appreciated.

[Hellashot]

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=2575324#post2575324

[AginKajun]

I really just need to break down and get photohsop, I do not have any image editing program except for Microsoft Office Image Editor which just doesn't cut it in most applications. The blemish on her nose was a scab and so I didn't want to cake the make-up on too much. Thank you for all the wonderful input, it is greatly appreciated.

The Canon software that came with your camera has a clone tool that will fix minor stuff like that scab. It will do a lot of things for you. You might want to play with it some. Just a thought.

[lvthebroncos]

Funny that you should bring that up because I thought about that the other day and told myself to break that out and see what's on it. Thanks for the tip/reminder!