Nele, lovely girl :)

[ssimons]

Pics are taken in a temperature of 30° celcius with hard sunlight, which didn't make it any easyer to get nice colors..
I used manual exposure here, with fill in flash. (no reflectors)
Comments welcome!


http://users.pandora.be/belcar/nele3.jpghttp://users.pandora.be/belcar/nele1.jpg

http://users.pandora.be/belcar/nele2.jpg

[John Trogdon]

Excellent shots, and she is a lovely girl. The only thing that bothers me is the expression in the first shot. I keep looking at it, wanting to see her smile a little or do something different with her eyes and mouth. After looking at it some more, it becomes a little interesting. I'm curious to see what others think.


Again, nice job and no comments about glamour from me. . . . :rolleyes:

[Croasdail]

Technically they are great - white clothing is always hard to get deep enough color saturation without blowing out the whites.... and she has a very intreging look.... I like them alot.. but.... there just seems to be something just a little .... not even "off", just not... well..... heck I can't place my finger on what it is. Ah - never mind.... you know what it is. We are so used to the standard smile, our poutie look, or sultry... and she just isn't doing any of the above. She just is, well normal, in a very pleasent way... and that is cool by me. I prefer it personallly to the fake glamour look. Great job... I like them - for what it's worth.

[Ballen Photo]

About Her expression in the first shot, She has a kind of "RESERVED" look, which is by no means a bad thing, in fact, I like it. ;)
One thing for sure, She's a very Stunning looking lady, and you've done a fine job of capturing that regardless of the harsh light. Good job with the fill flash. :D
-Bruce

[skade]

I like these shots! Well done!

[hollow]

Wow ! You have an excellent exposure in these shots ! Great job !

Oh...and like the others said about the lady...she is very pretty. :)

Regards

[Lotto]

I like all 3. The exposure, color, and back ground blur, all well done. Has the high quality feeling in these photos.

[bikerider]

Very nice pics, well shot.......looks like you have pretty good PS skills also.....I am assuming the background has some PS blurring. Whatever the method they look great!
Roger.

[condyk]

Great exposure ... these are really good shots and a very interesting model. I really don't like the backgrounds on 2 and 3 though. Over done.

When I see a really good shot I wish people had informative Sig's or said what gear they used. It would be a help.

[ssimons]

OK here it comes:

raw - jpeg with capture one pro
- white balance adjustment
- slightly adjusted exposure
- little contrast & some saturation
-> jpeg adobe rgb

Manual exposure, spotmeting on background and on the white of here shirt.
Then i searched for a good average shutter (aperture was around 4-5 i believe..)
The flash was in high sync mode, around -1 EV.
preflash was used on the model's face

that's about it.

PS:

- very little adjustment of the curves
- used color balance to adjust colors (little bit)
- USM
-> color space to srgb for web

(NO BLURRING IN PS!)

Hope it's usefull :)

S.

[BLINN]

Like the first two the last one just doesn't do it for me.

[smittymike19]

i love the first 2 shots, well done. The only thing i would recommend is that you photoshop the lines near her armpit, as they are distracting. otherwise, perfect.

[condyk]

Hope it's usefull :)

Great ... now half-wits like me can begin to learn something :D But to get that decent an image needed good kit: lens and camera please!

Still don't like the backgrounds ...

[Curtis N]

photoshop the lines near her armpit.Too bad she chose the wrong bra for that shirt. Looks kinda tacky whether she's being photographed or not.

Pretty girl, very well-done. I sure would love to see her smile.

[ssimons]

Great ... now half-wits like me can begin to learn something :D But to get that decent an image needed good kit: lens and camera please!

Still don't like the backgrounds ...

Canon 20D - 70-200 2.8 L

[ayotnoms]

PS:

- very little adjustment of the curves
....
I found her curves just fine the way they were. :-)

Very nice photos. I like the first one the most.

[ssimons]

:D

[dandan]

she could use a tiny bit of airbrushing around her face...

[drisley]

Excellent exposure. And the fill flash is superb. It looks 100% natural.

[toddb]

Yes, excellent job with the fill flash. I agree with Curtis, the bra kind of threw me at first. I thought they were wrinkles because they were close to her skin color.