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The over exposure was slightly intentional, although the sun was coming out from some clouds and got the better of me on teh beach. The whole real of beach shots is just a sliding scale of overexposure. One of my biggest issues is not taking a moment. I tend to think people want me to just rush through and get them home then I rush and make stupid mistakes ( like not adjusting my aperture for dof). It’s a mess in my head sometimes. But anyway I wanted to overexpose because of the black dog that I knew was in the shade of their bodies. Sometimes I do think, just not always on the right things.

I’ve had softness issues with it, on two seperate lenses. Both were ‘offbrand’ so I assumed it was the lenses. The Tamron 18-270, and the Sigma 24-70 2.8. the Sigma is better at f5 ish, but obviously still not the crispest. ( that is probably not a word), and the tamron I want to throw out a window 9 times outta ten. I’ll have to look into backfocusing issues, isn’t’ that something I’d have to send in to get looked at? I want to say when I was reading about it, that it involves a chart with lines and measures, and I’m not good at all when it comes to staring at those things. my eyes go wonky. I don’t remember issues on my 50mm or 35 though. So it may just be me and my terrible skills lol

I like your edit, i’m going to leave it up till tonight when I can have a better look and walk myself through what you did 🙂 (and the others too 🙂 )

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Oh wait I think it’s a little cropped….yup small crop on that image, didn’t want to lie lol

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LOL! Sorry no, this is not a composite. Here is the original uncropped and not edited:

What I did was a graduated filter to bring out the clouds a bit more, but not totally. Then I adjusted levels in photoshop to darken the whole image and bring the background where I wanted it, (or thought I did lol) and then masked them out of the levels adjustment and probably tinkered with the opacity. I lost the PS file because my PSC on my computer is wonky and it’s been randomly crashing in sleep mode -_- I just haven’t gotten around to ordering a new one.

I personally like the contrasty ones you guys have been doing, but my current teacher ( who I sort of feel is off his rocker but I’m trying to be a good girl and except his criticisms like I should) keeps yelling at me about too contrasty images so it’s made me terribly paranoid. And possibly a little twitchy. He did tell a newborn photographer in class ( who only does newborns, a few weeks old kind of babies) that she had to many sleeping babies in her portfolio… I dunno.

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Oh and I’m not ignoring the comments on her posing. I totally see what everyone is talking about, shes not even a big girl at all. I was sad I didn’t catch how wide she was looking on the beach shots. 🙁 reasons why I don’t charge yet lol

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Ebi, thanks for the post 🙂 I can’t remember between the three edits I did trying to get it right, but if I’m remembering ( I can check for sure) I didn’t bump them, I exposed for them and had to bring down the background. I first tried the radial graduated filter thing that’s new in LR5 but it had mad halo, and light room isn’t the best for me with fine tuning. So I chucked that one ( well I saved it to practice on later but eh) and then tried a regular graduated filter to bring back the clouds, and theadjusted….levels i believed…oh wait i did mask them out of the levels layer, sothat counts. Nevermind. And minor other stuff the mute the mountain a bit.

My tablet is being eh at looking at your detail shots you pulled so I’ll look moreindepth at those tomorrow on the desktop. I used to have a wacom, backwhen I was drawing, but it was almost ten years old and conked out on me 🙁

Thanks against. ks

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The horizon is listing towards the lower right just a smidge, I only know cause there’s a weird coding error on this page with my tablet that gives me a horizonantal bar floating in the middle. Yea the dof was a sort of gut reaction to the lens I had being stoopid soft at wider apertures. It wasn’t the best choice to shoot at 8 or 9 with so much going on. I should have opened it up a bit and I probably still wouldn’t have had to worry about it being soft.

I have a few that are cropped in tighter,I just sort of liked the whole area. I completely see what you all are saying though. It does sort of feel separate. I can try the graduated filter, this has one already to pull in the cloud detail, so I can fumble around and see if I can alter the dof without it looking cheesy. Thanks for looking 🙂

 

 

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Lemme just comment on how annoyed I was at the music that nearly blasted me out of my chair trying to turn it off on Andrzej Dragans page -_-

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That’s about how I feel, I wasn’t getting what I needed trying to teach myself randomly, I had little of idea of how to start, I just knew where I wanted to be. It helped me start at the beginning and get to where I am now. Which still isn’t great, but I’m getting better every shoot 🙂 It just amazes me some of the pictures that people put up in some of these classes haha.

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Okay so I go to the Art Institute online for photography. It’s sort of a terrible place, and I see photos like that in class all the time. Because it’s an effort based for profit school, so if you do the bare minimum you’ll pass and end up with a degree. I know that doesn’t say much about me, but I honestly needed the direction and guidance to self teach, and that’s what it did for me.

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Honestly I think it’s partly because it’s currently a buzzword in the public eye. Natural foods, natural processes, all that. So if all those ‘natural’ things are better, then natural light has to be superior right? That’s my best guess.

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The propeller? that’s like 10 feet up lol, I couldn’t reach it if I wanted to, and you’re not allowed to climb on them either. I know the scenery isn’t conducive with a 2 year old little girl, we were shooting her brothers when I caught this shot on a whim. To me it looks like it’s electric and making her hair stand up haha. I just loved the moment.

The first shot, I don’t find her face dirty, although I did actually clean up some dry milk and a booger off it. I didn’t actually do much to her eyes, at least as far as I thought. Here’s the before and after :

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this is my favorite of the day, of course the mom has her strapped to her shoulder haha.

and this one I’m calling “it’s electric” which I just find personally amusing

I know the second one is all edited to hell. I did it the other day and then sat on it to see if I like it, and I’m still on the fence about it, which means i’ll be starting over soon haha.

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I’m not pro, but I hope to be. I know my limitations which is why i was asking about tips 🙂

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Watch this:

https://plus.google.com/photos/116541004292231676202/albums/5915463635662120177/5915463710059047234?authkey=CMueuL_biYviEw&pid=5915463710059047234&oid=116541004292231676202

it’s severely warm, and needs a white balance correction. It’s also blurry from shooting at 1/40. Depending on how your camera handles noise, the iso needed to be higher to get a better shutter speed.

I don’t think it’s bad knowing that you aren’t editing them. I don’t think you are ready to start charging by far. Even with candid portraiture you need to understand your light and how to use it. A lot of the kids have rather dark shadowed faces, that I believe could use some post work to help brighten them up.

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First note: get rid of the music on your site -_- Nothing annoys me and many others then getting randomly blasted with music while desperately trying find the place to mute it. For the most part I like your pictures. No frill pretty photographs. That being said you have a few you just need to pull out completely, namely in the children section. There’s one where it looks like you whited out the background in post, and it’s obvious. Then one where the kid is in a chair with all sorts of weird lighting and bad white balance.

Your event work isn’t strong at all. White balance is all over the place and it’s mostly uninteresting. I would either update it, or pull it. I like your infant stuff, just watch when placing them on their backs, some of the neck positions look really uncomfortable, and I don’t necessarily mean like “omg fix that baby;s position you’re endangering them” more just that it feels uncomfortable? does that make sense?

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