Brophoto - Giles

Just ran around with my friend having another photo safari.
This day was a bright beautiful day, had great opportunities to shoot with my new Tamron 17-50mm f\2.8 and so far I am very pleased.
The jump from the kit lens in IQ is pretty high.

Took both @ 2.8 with some additional pp'ing of these images.

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Here's another edit, I'm sort of liking this one more.

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Those are good shots. I like the subtle way you brought the sunlight into these shots, it really adds a lot. Very good exposures. I like the second edit of the 2nd picture best. Care to share your PP for the first shot? Looks like you did some circular glass thing in the background, pretty neat.

Your friend has a LOT of hair.

Nice work here.. I also like the second edit on the 2nd shot.. He seems to pop from the picture better in that one. I am not really liking the circle thing going on in the 1st shot because I find it distracting and I keep looking at that and not him. But this is just personal preference.. You did really good with these shots.. Thanks for sharing them.

The circular lighting can actually be applied to any photo! Well technically it's just bokeh.
I shot his face @ f\2.8 and anything reflecting the sun's harsh light puts off glare that is blurred out into a circle which is the shape of dimensions inside the lens ( lol, I think..)

I'm trying to do as little post processing as needed (well not in this one), the ray of light is all natural. I found a random texture picture, you can use any texture picture - concrete, wood, and apply it as a new layer and set it to darken.

I also added curves and adjusted red,green and blue individually.

EOSBoy wrote in post #5112277
The circular lighting can actually be applied to any photo! Well technically it's just bokeh.
I shot his face @ f\2.8 and anything reflecting the sun's harsh light puts off glare that is blurred out into a circle which is the shape of dimensions inside the lens ( lol, I think..)

Your right.

Has to do with the appature your shooting at. Stop it down and you'll get octagons/hexagons, open it up and you'll get circles like that

Nice shots btw, I like the second edit of the second photo as well.

ghaleon109 wrote in post #5112581
Your right.

Has to do with the appature your shooting at. Stop it down and you'll get octagons/hexagons, open it up and you'll get circles like that

Nice shots btw, I like the second edit of the second photo as well.

Thanks! There's always room for improvement for me though!

To be honest, the first thing that caught my eye was the Nikon strap.

I like both, yours and the edited version of the second shot.
Your's has a nostalgic look to it because of the color.
The edited one has more of a natural color so depending on what you're going for, can go both ways. However, I don't care for the frame.

I am really diggin the second pic. I liked it with its vintage look in the first one but i really like the edit too. What did you do to get it like that?

The vintage look was just a curves adjustment layer with tweaking of the red, green and blue curve colors to give the vintage coloration. Then I filter-distortion-lens correction and added like -30 to vignette.
As for the other one, I kept the coloration as is but with a slight adjustment of contrast and saturation. Then I found a texture that had a boarder around it on the internet and I pasted it as a new layer over the original and set it to darken and did some slight erasing of his faces and mid arms to get rid of the texturing in those areas.