First Maternity Shoot....

Did these tonight for a dear friend of mine....we do have a week or two to reshoot if needed, please c&c.

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And an artsy fartsy edit...not sure if I love it...

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I like #1, #3 and your artsy fartsy color version of #3.

I like them, I think they are very natural looking and the mother to be looks very comfortable and content. I like the colours, they are nice and natural.

Very natural and pretty

I'm not too keen on #2 or the "artsy" version. I like the others, though. With the close-up of the hands on the tummy, it would be nice to see a little more of the "pregnancy"... if you saw this by itself, you'd just think it was a couple in love, but it should be accenting the baby on board, too, somehow. I would also have the mom-to-be not always look directly into the camera... it works well of the two of them together looking in the direction of the tummy.

Darvon wrote in post #6422136
With the close-up of the hands on the tummy, it would be nice to see a little more of the "pregnancy"... if you saw this by itself, you'd just think it was a couple in love, but it should be accenting the baby on board, too, somehow. I would also have the mom-to-be not always look directly into the camera... it works well of the two of them together looking in the direction of the tummy.

I agree with this but I really love #4.

My first thought was - you need to work on your exposure and white balancing.

iClickPhotography wrote in post #6423076
My first thought was - you need to work on your exposure and white balancing.

Could you be a little more specific, please?

The lighting is very flat in many of these and/or very underexposed.

The last one is very underexposed - hard to make out his face. They simply don't pop.

White balancing - there is some magenta in a few of the shots.

Ok....thanks for being more specific. My monitor is not calibrated (and I'm told can't be because its an LCD screen), so its hard to tell colors super well. There was a major green cast in some of them (probably the ones where you see the magenta) because of being under trees...so I did my best to balance that out.

The last one was to be strobist style....which maybe wasn't the best attempt, but I did try....

I guess I'm not sure what you mean by flat lighting. I do still have quite a bit to learn...I lit them the best I could and then played with the curves adjustment and those sorts of things, are there other suggestions that you'd offer? I will alter the exposure on them too, but I guess was afraid to go too far because of blowing out her white shirt...and the details in it.

Thank you, I do appreciate it.

Did you use any reflectors? Put the light in different places and use a reflector or two to fill in the harsh shadows yet give you some pleasing soft shadows and highlights.

I will try that...I don't have a "real" reflector yet, but I've got a homemade one that should work reasonably well.

As far as color balancing, does this one look any better? I'm floored at how much brighter they look in PS than they do when posted here.

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