First Studio Portraits - Set 1

[Tareq]

few shots of my first try with studio lightings, not good enough because the lighting kit were less and unavailable most of heads, and ofcourse my bad skill

#1
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/193/img6312cg6.jpg

#2
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/8461/img6318il1.jpg

#3
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4121/img6319mn9.jpg

#4
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1088/img6327dj7.jpg

#5
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6496/img6330ie3.jpg

#6
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/34/img6335ik9.jpg

[Titus213]

What is the set-up and the equipment you used? One light?

#2 & #3 are getting there.I like the lighting on the last one but it isn't even over the full face. You will probably hear otherwise, but I find white backgrounds by far the most difficult to use. The lighting on them and the subject has to be right on to look really good so I've opted for a dark red for my initial practice. That way I can focus on lighting the subject properly first.

[MikeMcL]

I like 4 alot. congrats on the new lights.

[brettrobsonphotography]

I dont think your lighting is a more the problem then the position of the subgect with respect to the camera

If you were going for a portrait style shot then #2 and #6 would have been the cream of the crop

The others dont catch my eye except #5 which has a bit of creative essence to it

If you were going to use the hat you might want to use a reflector and bounce some light upwards, removing the shadow under the hat and the eyes

Keep practicing

[Tareq]

In fact i used one light as main [small softbox which supposed to be used as fill flash, and that backlight used as fill flash but tried to make it as backlight part of it, so with 1 light and 1 back light it is not perfect set up to use for these kind of shooting, too bad they didn't fix the rest strobes to get better lightings.

I will post set 2 and 3 or more later, just i want to learn all mistakes here before i post new shots.

Thank you very very much for those feedbacks.

[Tareq]

What is the set-up and the equipment you used? One light?

#2 & #3 are getting there.I like the lighting on the last one but it isn't even over the full face. You will probably hear otherwise, but I find white backgrounds by far the most difficult to use. The lighting on them and the subject has to be right on to look really good so I've opted for a dark red for my initial practice. That way I can focus on lighting the subject properly first.

I have another shots with black background and purple [bluish] background.
with one light it will be difficult to work for perfect portraits shooting.

[Tareq]

I like 4 alot. congrats on the new lights.

It is not my lights, it is photography crab, sorry, i mean club studio lights

[Tareq]

I dont think your lighting is a more the problem then the position of the subgect with respect to the camera

If you were going for a portrait style shot then #2 and #6 would have been the cream of the crop

The others dont catch my eye except #5 which has a bit of creative essence to it

If you were going to use the hat you might want to use a reflector and bounce some light upwards, removing the shadow under the hat and the eyes

Keep practicing

one light as main light [which is small sofbox], and that backlight used as fill flash in some shots, and no reflectors so how do you expect to be the shots?
I will buy myself good lightings with background and reflectors then i will have another trials.

Just i will post nes sets later and i want to see if they are difference, just wait them.

[SingingSabre]

I think you're doing beyond great with what you have!

[Tareq]

I think you're doing beyond great with what you have!

Thank you very much.
they are not the best, i got better shots than these i will show later, but i want to see if those shots are good in poses [rather than exposure or color cast and so], and i tried to do something with less lack kit, but today now or very soon i will go to order lightings kit [locally story to order from outside], Hensel brand and it will take about 1 week to arrive so i hope i can get better results later and i will keep learning in those days coming, and i will post the rest of my studio tests soon.

[Tareq]

I forgot to say that i will start to learn how to make portraits photos better with photoshop as cloning and healing and dodge and so, it will take long time and i know how to do but each photo need its own editing, i wish if you people know any software that can do healing and cloning with one or fast process or steps so then i don't take long time to do it in photoshop by normal ways.

I wish if i can get MU assistants and better models but that what i got and i learn with what i have available now, forgive me if those are non perfect pro as most here or you expect to see.

[StaticThought]

Good start Buddy. As for software, most including myself prefer some form Adobe Photoshop. I, as do others currently use the CS2 version.

[Tareq]

Good start Buddy. As for software, most including myself prefer some form Adobe Photoshop. I, as do others currently use the CS2 version.

I am using CS2 as well
i will try CS3 later if it worth and got more advanced features.