Portrait Shoots

[octaviang]

Hi, i'm a begginer in photography, i shoot les than one year.
I'm using a Canon t1i and a Canon 1.8, 85mm, and give priority to portraits.
I found the tips on this site very interesting to me and would like to join the forum

My wish is to get as more critisism on my works as posible, so please comment
Here is my flickr photosteam flickr photosteam

[Bruce A]

Welcome to DPS forums. Just a tip - if you wish for critique read the critique guidelines and post accordingly. You'll find you'll get more response and advice.

[ajax_andy]

Yeah it's very difficult to critique such a large selection of images... please just post one and ask what you want critiqued about the image.

Dont worry once you get used to doing it this way you'll see it works really well

[octaviang]

thanks for your reply.
i never got any comments on my photos in general, i mean nobody said nothing about the level of my works, so i would like to hear something about all my works.
Isn't the post processing done too hard?
I know i have a lot of thinks to learn, so i want to know the streng strengths and weaknesses

But to respect the rules of the forum, let's take for exemple one of my favourite photos:
link to flickr
isn't the skin of the model too plastic?

[fais54]

I really like the style of your photos and the post processing isn't done too much, it looks great. I don't mind the skin of the model, sure it can be toned down a bit, but it isn't really bad the way it is now.

[scootermcq]

One thing that jumped out at me when I quickly looked was your white balance was all over the place. Might want to practice that in post a bit, or set custom w/b on site.

[octaviang]

thanks for the feedback.
Does the photos have unusual color casts? Should i try to keep the natural colors? This is what you mean?

[scootermcq]

If you compare her skin:

to his:


His is very cool.... almost blue.... Hers is very warm.... almost orange....

2 different light sources, two different results, both seem unnatural (although his is closer to natural)

[octaviang]

Thanks, next time i'll pay attention to the setings of the camera(but i manage to adjust the white balance to the conditions all the time, and the primary images have a well balanced white, i mean the unedited jpgs/raws) and the post processing
but although something inside of me tends to edit photos in an unnatural way

[ajax_andy]

Yeah I saw lots of colour casts on images in your collection too... could be white balance (more than likely) or post processing errors (less likely).

I also suffer from colour casts in some of my images and its always a white balance issue I think. You might want to buy a Grey Card for setting customs WB's... that is what I plan to do.