First portraits lights

[RAWcop]

My beautiful step-daughter was so kind to let me try out some portrait shots with my new soft boxes. This was one of her favorites I took. Some PP done to it for skin blemishes (teens).



What I want to know, is the lighting correct (too light,too dark), over all color of the portrait and does this pose work?


Thanks


Exposure 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash On, Did not fire

[SusanH1970]

Oh, she's lovely, what a great model to work with!

To answer your questions:

Lighting and exposure: Exposure is excellent; lighting looks okay, a bit flat but you do have nice catchlights. Where did you have the lights/softboxes set up and at what power? I might have brought in the one camera right a bit closer to create larger catchlights, and moved the one camera left further away and more behind her to create some shadowing.

Overall color: Skin tones look a little yellow. Easily fixed in post. I LOVE that you left her freckles and skin texture showing while getting rid of the blemishes, well done!

Pose: Love the pose, very sweet - but the supertight crop isn't working for me. I don't mind cropped heads (I'm a chronic headchopper, lol), but the chopped chin and her wrist/hand on the side of her face look weird. Was the crop in-camera or in post?

[RAWcop]

Thanks for the response. The picture is not cropped in PP, that was in camera. I have tried to cool it down a little bit so it is not as yellow.
It is funny you mentioned her freckles, she wanted me to get rid of them. lol

[carlyfan]

I really like it! I do agree with Susan that the crop is a little tight, particularly the bottom of the frame seems really close to her lip. But I love the DoF, and great job keeping her skin natural looking. She is very pretty, and I'm glad you left her freckles in. Nice photo!

Lisa

[Jim Bryant]

Nice photo.

[kristenh]

i like it, i like her pose, the lighting, and the freckles. its very cute. wonder how it would be, though, if you took it vertically?

[RAWcop]

Originally Posted by kristenh

i like it, i like her pose, the lighting, and the freckles. its very cute. wonder how it would be, though, if you took it vertically?

Probably vertical......

Thanks everyone for the responses. I will try and get her to pose again so I can get some more pictures of her (if I can get her to put her cell phone away that is),and try some vertical shots.

[LoveDSLR]

My 2 cents.

The background color doesn't work for me. Her right eye looks (very slightly) softer than the left one and her nose isn't balanced.

[RAWcop]

Originally Posted by LoveDSLR

My 2 cents.

The background color doesn't work for me. Her right eye looks (very slightly) softer than the left one and her nose isn't balanced.

I love the edit. What did you do for the edit?

[BexJarratt]

I like the background colour change LoveDSLR, but the nose now looks very wide and flat, which is not how it is. Judging by the original photo its a slender nose which is only unbalanced because it is not directly front on, it's just perspective.