Natural Light Portrait (Before/After)

I've decided that I want to try to do outdoor portraits without strobes or reflectors to avoid having to carry so much equipment when going to locations that require a decent amount of walking and climbing around so I tried this natural light portrait of my friends while we were hiking.

Any CC is welcome, just trying to nail my exposure and post-process with natural light. Please don't CC posing/expression etc as this was just a candid.
First image is SOOC.

looks good to me...........ur leg looks half shaved

cleyvosier wrote in post #15708745
looks good to me...........ur leg looks half shaved

Haha they're not mine but I'll be glad to let my co-worker know :P

Were they posed? I am not sure I like him holding the cellphone. It tells a story that he rather be texting than enjoying her company. I do like the picture and processing otherwise.

losangelino wrote in post #15709201
Were they posed? I am not sure I like him holding the cellphone. It tells a story that he rather be texting than enjoying her company. I do like the picture and processing otherwise.

Nah they weren't, we were just scaling the cliffs and we took a quick break so I pulled my camera out of my bag for a moment to take some candids. At the time he was trying to figure what to say to his boss to get out of work so we could stay later.

losangelino wrote in post #15709201
Were they posed? I am not sure I like him holding the cellphone. It tells a story that he rather be texting than enjoying her company. I do like the picture and processing otherwise.

I'm sure......that looks really bad and it sends the exact message as stated above.

But then.....I hate cell phones in general. An unfortunate necessary evil.

I really like the processing on this. Was this shot in the morning? Very good lighting as well!

Ditto to what saea501 et al said. Also, her slacks are dirty, bad time of day (harsh light).
Looks like a spur of the moment picture, that technique rarely works.

PP looks good but ya the cell phone makes it appear he couldnt care less about her or the surroundings. Although it pretty much sums up alot of todays youngsters!

chauncey wrote in post #15710860
Ditto to what saea501 et al said. Also, her slacks are dirty, bad time of day (harsh light).
Looks like a spur of the moment picture, that technique rarely works.

Yeah it was just a snapshot that I wanted to test my post-processing on. What technique are you referring to exactly?

flashpoint99 wrote in post #15710894
PP looks good but ya the cell phone makes it appear he couldnt care less about her or the surroundings. Although it pretty much sums up alot of todays youngsters!

Yep! I HATE cellphones, which is why I still have a "crappy" phone from 2008. The day my other half got an iPhone I think my overall attention level from her dropped significantly.

TimHphotovideo wrote in post #15710253
I really like the processing on this. Was this shot in the morning? Very good lighting as well!

This was shot at 2pm in bright day light.

Spur of the moment without much thought or planning

chauncey wrote in post #15711669
Spur of the moment without much thought or planning

Ah yeah. As I said in the original post, they weren't posed and this was just a snapshot. Just wanted CC on my post process.

LOL @ the responses in this thread. Despite the repeated attempts by the OP asking others to ignore the subjects and posing; that is what most people have commented on for no reason at all.

I really like your post processing work. You were really able to save a lot of detail from the background. If anything, I might boost the saturation just a tiny bit more. Oh, and I really hate the subject's pose.

Sorry if we offended the post police!

Haha its okay, I know people don't really fully read each and every post clearly so it happens (myself included). No biggie!