First real portrait shoot...

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I had a pretty interesting shoot yesterday. A friend of my wife had wanted to give her neice senior portraits/engagement pictures as a gift. Well, I got to the house to shoot, and was in for a bit of a surprise. The house had 7' ceilings, and tiny cluttered rooms. I was shooting with my 40D, Sigma 24-60 f2.8, and using Norman ML 400 strobes, w/ radio triggering. I stopped and picked up our black backdrop from my wife's parents house, but didn't want to go that far out of my way so I brought a gray sheet to put up on the backdrop stands. I'm glad I didn't bring the black, because it wouldn't have fit in the room, and it wouldn't have been very good with their clothes.

Anyways, here are a couple I shot, and a couple to show my wife's PP skill as well. She's very good at creating studio style digital backdrops to put people in front of. The work isn't done yet, but here is where we are at right now.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9173/rebecca16tm2.jpg

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5431/rebecca15dw5.jpg

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8637/rebecca13jk5.jpg

Some before & after PP:

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4441/rebecca9yl7.jpg

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7871/rebecca19as7.jpg

And another:

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2616/rebecca4yg7.jpg

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2710/rebecca18gx6.jpg

[braduardo]

Ooops... I just realized that the last one in the series is the one my wife was still working on before she left for work. There are still some unfixed areas around his hair.