My attempt at Portraits

[krishna_chicha]

Hi I am new to photography It started as a hobby but now I want to be really good at it. I am posting here to learn. I am new to processing as well, I am just experimenting on colors,curves, tones until I get what I think is good, I still do not fully understand what they do and still have no idea what is good or what is over or under done.

Nikon D5000 (NIKKOR 18-105mm lens)
Exposer 1/160
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 105mm
ISO 200
No Flash

[krishna_chicha]

54 views and no suggestions/comments?

[RLucas]

Sorry no one has answered your post.
As far as the processing goes, it does seem a little cooked to me. His eyes are really dark, and the beard is almost completely blown out.
I would really love to see the original shot to see what you started with.

I do quite like it other than that, however you may want to crop some off the top, so his eyes are closer to the top third of the frame. Also, I noticed on your flickr page that this man had a stick in his hand. It would have been great if you could get that included in the frame as well.

Overall, it's a good first attempt, and you have more guts than me asking strangers to photograph them! Good for you for that!

[krishna_chicha]

Thank you, I thought so too that processing was over done. Thank you for looking at my flickr too. The old man did have a stick with him but I made a mistake with that by not including it in the frame properly. I later realized that the stick was almost invisible. I will be more careful next time around when framing my shots.

Thank you for the time I will upload the original soon

[sk66]

Nice subject...biggest issue with the image IMO is there is too much dark...can't really see his eyes.

I did a quick edit...mostly used the shadow/highlight adjustment to add some fill...

[krishna_chicha]

@Rlucas my Hard disk crashed and I lost some of my originals with that hard disk. I am very scared to ask people too you never know when some one bigger and stronger might get offended

@Sk66 thank you, I am going through some of the tuts on processing her on DPS. I will soon post photos processed with help from tuts here.

I have one more photo I would like to have comments and critiqued.


I might have over cooked this as well

Exif
Exposer 1/125
Aperture f5.3
Focal Length 66mm
Iso 250
No flash

[neubauer6]

I love the photo. I wish the eyes weren't so dark, I think it might give a little more personality to the shot!

[krishna_chicha]

The original photo was little over exposed I could not see the items they were selling. I wanted to show that in the frame as well, I could not balance the processing well. I will keep the suggestion in mind for future shots. thank you

[hakanu]

hi krishna, i like your compositions. but i think your processing a lot. Maybe you can leave them a little natural

[tamcry]

After looking at your pics on Flickr I am wondering why you did not post the "The One Eyed Man" That is a better one I beleive and intersting. I like it.

Tamcry