Strangers Project - Part 11

Hey all, here's the latest
For those not familiar wit this project, please look back at the previous 10 threads for any questions you may have as they have all have been addressed


Stranger No. 45

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Stranger No. 51

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great series. i really love your post processing. hope you don't mind me asking, but how do you achieve that look?

Another great series! Stranger 48 and 55 are my favorites.

Well done!

Amazing, man! It's just amazing...
Matthew, I've been watching your project since the beginning. It's really fascinating, but I have a question here, I hope you can answer it ... What do you do to achieve those beautiful colors?

you manage to shoot some good looking people. Very nice!

Once again I'm blown away by your apparent quick and positive relationship with strangers.

Another great set I can not find fault with any of them! I think the most amazing thing is how well you capture complete strangers you have a knack for it.

A really nice series and really well executed. A really lovely connection with the strangers too which makes for lovely portraits.

cool work,

Hey guys thanks for the positive comments… truly. Just when I think this projects is getting played out, comments like these help me keep stick with it.

To address some of your questions:
Regarding post processing: I can’t say I do the same exact thing to every single photo. Each photo calls for its own touch. But what I find I do to almost all photo’s is bump up the exposure a little to brighten it up, and add some contrast enhancement. I also do sharpening and some high pass filters to make the subject pop. That and I’ll do some eye enhancements to bring out the catch lights. That and any major or distracting skin blemishes I’ll clone out.

Regarding color: All I can say is the 135L is an amazing lens with great color saturation SOOC. All I do is make sure the WB is consistent. Sometimes I’ll enhance colors, but just a tad, not much at all, and I really only recall doing that to perhaps 3-4 photo’s of this project… so I don’t do a ton of color enhancements. What I do try to do is keep conscious of the background colors, while being OOF, I still try to keep them in mind when shooting the person to make them ‘work’.

Most of all, thanks for noticing my main goal with this project… and that’s to create the sense of connection. I truly appreciate you guys noticing that, because that’s all that I feel makes this project worthwhile. I want the strangers to feel, no so strange.

You can try running the photo's through Exif. It will tell you a little of the PP.

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Great series! Got any links to the rest?

Mike wrote in post #12154450
Great series! Got any links to the rest?

check out my website, or flickr