First Shoots - Engagement

[mkmagic]

Hi Everyone,
These are my first time taking real shots. These are my brother's engagement photos. Please tell me what you think? Really!!

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t104/mkmagic/Fountain.jpg

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t104/mkmagic/Light-pole.jpg

[Captain Mantastic]

i like the poses, cute couple... the second one looks a little soft though.

[LBaldwin]

Hey MK,

Not too bad for your first try at a portrait. But we have a few small issues to contend with that are easy to correct next time out.

1. The color is not correct, and it needs to have some of the warmth knocked down. You can keep it a little warm (in color) if you wish but some correction is needed.
2. In the #! image your brothers has the unfortunate affliction of lampus headus. So watch your backgrounds and don't let objects that are directly behind your subject pop out of the heads
2. Your brothers right hand is protectivly (smirk) placed on your future in laws derriere. That is a nono. You want to make sure that if you show a hand you try to show the limb it is attached to and the person it belongs to in one continous stream. Otherwise it looks as if your sis has a hand growing from you know where, a medical miracle (vbg)
3. The head hights are a little too far apart too. Try next time to split the lower persons crown between the eyes and forhead of the taller subject.
4.Crop tighter. not soo much background.

2nd shot is a better pose and better expressions from her, his is a little too aloof, try to match them if possible.
The area where her head is close to the pole needs to increase just a bit to provide seoperation between her and the pole. Next time have her cup or place her fingers togeather instead of a wide spread. make sure you focus on the eyes..

I hope this helps,

Les

[mkmagic]

Hey MK,

Not too bad for your first try at a portrait. But we have a few small issues to contend with that are easy to correct next time out.

1. The color is not correct, and it needs to have some of the warmth knocked down. You can keep it a little warm (in color) if you wish but some correction is needed.
2. In the #! image your brothers has the unfortunate affliction of lampus headus. So watch your backgrounds and don't let objects that are directly behind your subject pop out of the heads
2. Your brothers right hand is protectivly (smirk) placed on your future in laws derriere. That is a nono. You want to make sure that if you show a hand you try to show the limb it is attached to and the person it belongs to in one continous stream. Otherwise it looks as if your sis has a hand growing from you know where, a medical miracle (vbg)
3. The head hights are a little too far apart too. Try next time to split the lower persons crown between the eyes and forhead of the taller subject.
4.Crop tighter. not soo much background.

2nd shot is a better pose and better expressions from her, his is a little too aloof, try to match them if possible.
The area where her head is close to the pole needs to increase just a bit to provide seoperation between her and the pole. Next time have her cup or place her fingers togeather instead of a wide spread. make sure you focus on the eyes..

I hope this helps,

Les


Les,
Thanks so much for your comments. I was not sure of the color issue because I am using two screens one is an LCD screen (showing to much warmth) but the one on my laptop looked great. Well, at least know I know that my notebook's monitor is not the one to go by.

Thanks again!

[motogeno]

Les,
Thanks so much for your comments. I was not sure of the color issue because I am using two screens one is an LCD screen (showing to much warmth) but the one on my laptop looked great. Well, at least know I know that my notebook's monitor is not the one to go by.

Thanks again!
You should really callibrate whatever monitor you will be working on so that what you see is what you get. You have some really nice images for a start - nice bokeh and a beautiful environment. Pay attention to composition - had you moved your subjects over to the left in #1 then not only would the fountain not be growing out of his head but it would be more dynamic as you eyes would follow the diagonals of the walkway right to your subjects. In #2 you might crop and straighten slightly, and I think that it might benefit from your subjects being moved slightly to the right. Unless you have an extremely shallow depth of field your subjects will always have a relationship with their environment in terms of composition.

[CyberPet]

Don't be afraid to shoot in vertical.

[turaund1]

i agree shooting vertical would have gotten rid of some of the background and gave u a tighter crop. also you need to relax your subjects they seem alittle stiff. talk about things you think would give a smile. but nice for first time