Matrix Colours

[mehtasahil]

Its a cloudy day giving us soft diffused light.
Camera - 5D Mii
1.8f
1250sec
400 iso
focal lenght 50mm
Metering mode - spot (face)

Added some green color tint for a different look as the sky was blown out.



Cheers
SM

[oldwolf]

Was there a question?

This might help a little.

People - Critique

[mehtasahil]

Originally Posted by oldwolf

Was there a question?

This might help a little.

People - Critique

Was wondering if you guys like the greenish tint and I cut her arms from the bottom(is it good or bad)??

[graciousness]

Green is not a good tint on skin. Cut off hands.....not a fan, but it's not too bad here. You can try and convert to B&W, but the blown out sky is such a huge area that any conversion wouldn't help it.

I think you need to look into how to expose for ambient light and fill flash before you think of doing fancy edits on the photos to salvage them.

Her eyes should be the sharpest area in this image but it seems you have focused on her jacket.

[oldwolf]

Originally Posted by mehtasahil

Was wondering if you guys like the greenish tint and I cut her arms from the bottom(is it good or bad)??

Arms being cut off don't bother me too much. You at least didn't cut them off at a joint. That's puts people off a little at times.

The greenish tint is a bit much for me though. Just my two cents.

[mehtasahil]

Originally Posted by graciousness

Her eyes should be the sharpest area in this image but it seems you have focused on her jacket.

Grace,

Thanks for your valuable feedback again.
Question: I have a camera with only 9 focus points and as I try to get more of her body rather than just the face my focus points are no way near her eyes. So how do you or other photographer approach when they want to picture more than just the face say complete standing body and focus on eyes?

Regards
SM

[graciousness]

Never mind the 9 focus points.

There are two issues here that affected your focus:

1) The use of the very wide aperture at f/1.8. Not only is the lens not at its sharpest at the widest aperture, but you are using a very narrow DOF which makes it difficult to focus. You need to have a non-moving subject, very stead hand with the camera and or a tripod to make it work.

This wide aperture also didn't help with the overexposure on the sky. And then you have ISO of 400 outside. That doesn't help either.

2) When taking portraits, it's the eyes that matter. Get the eyes well focused and practically almost anything else doesn't matter. Fail your focus on the eyes and everything falters (except the main subject of the image is not the person). If you were taking this shot as a fashion image, I would understand then that you want the sharpness on her clothes. But again, you have to use a narrower aperture (higher f/stop) to achieve this. I would start with 3 stops above the lowest focal number your lens, then work from there. In this photo though, if you wanted more of her in focus including her clothes, I would have started at around f/4 then work from there.

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers,

Grace

[mehtasahil]

Originally Posted by graciousness

Never mind the 9 focus points.

There are two issues here that affected your focus:

1) The use of the very wide aperture at f/1.8. Not only is the lens not at its sharpest at the widest aperture, but you are using a very narrow DOF which makes it difficult to focus. You need to have a non-moving subject, very stead hand with the camera and or a tripod to make it work.

This wide aperture also didn't help with the overexposure on the sky. And then you have ISO of 400 outside. That doesn't help either.

2) When taking portraits, it's the eyes that matter. Get the eyes well focused and practically almost anything else doesn't matter. Fail your focus on the eyes and everything falters (except the main subject of the image is not the person). If you were taking this shot as a fashion image, I would understand then that you want the sharpness on her clothes. But again, you have to use a narrower aperture (higher f/stop) to achieve this. I would start with 3 stops above the lowest focal number your lens, then work from there. In this photo though, if you wanted more of her in focus including her clothes, I would have started at around f/4 then work from there.

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers,

Grace

Righto. This is great advice from a fellow Australian.. Lol.
I'll keep these tips in my mind and hopefully I'll get more sharpness in next shoot.
This is the complete index of 10mins I spent with the model.
http://mehtaone.com/gallery/?dir=Birgit%20Meier

Most of them are missing focus on the face but I overall like the soft colors and theme. Do you like any of these??

Regards
SM