My first portrait pictures

[LaurentiuB]

Please comment, but don't kill me :D , I'm still learning

http://laurentiu-bogdan.fotopic.net/p6635689.html
Shutter speed: 1/800 sec
F-Number: F/3.1
Focal lenght: 58mm

http://laurentiu-bogdan.fotopic.net/p6635461.html
Shutter speed: 1/1250 sec
F-Number: F/5.6
Focal lenght: 58mm

http://laurentiu-bogdan.fotopic.net/p6635690.html
Shutter speed: 1/1250 sec
F-Number: F/3.5
Focal lenght: 58mm

[Sendide]

I like the subjects but the pictures are a little soft or slightly out of focus
the last one talks by itself
keep them coming :wink:
regards
Khalid

[roanjohn]

Like the last shot.

Need more sharpness.........too blurry for my taste.

Ro1

[stoneylonesome]

the last is my favorite, but I have to agree they need to be a little sharper. The softness doesn't seem to work that well for these shots.

[jonnyhorizon]

nice crop on number 2...

[henkbos]

If you take portraits you want to make sure that the face is in focus.
Why do you use such high shutter speeds? Use an aperture of 8 which will give you more DOF. In #2 the focus is on the water, not on the people. Sometimes it is better to use manual focus instead of auto!

[kanwingshing]

Did you ask for the permission of the subject before you take the pictures?

[Radtech1]

The last shot is nice, but you need to show more care when you artificially blur the background. You can see the problem most evidently on her Rt hand and cigarette. The "background her" blurred along with the rest of the image, so when you pasted the "forground her" (the shrp one) back on top of the blurred image, some of the blur showed through.

I hope that you save it as a Photoshop file, with the layers and history intact, so you wont have to start again.

Go back to the back to the background layer BEFORE you blurred it. Using the clone tool, Clone out the model, relplacing her with either sky, or umbrella, or umbrella post, or WHATEVER is behind her.

When she is gone, THEN blur the background.

When you paste the "forground her" back in, now you will no longer have the dark halos around her. Instead of a "background arm" blurring into sky, it will be sky blurring into sky.

All in all, a decent effort, but needs work.

[dan_c]

Nice shots. Were they taken in Vama Veche? :wink:

[LaurentiuB]

Yes, in Vama Veche.