First outdoor portrait session with model... Warm or cold light?

[guitarjunky]

I am a newcomer to Digital photography. I just equipped myself with serious equipement and I am very passionnate about this new hobbie.

I just did my first photo shoot with a model, outdoor. I worked with the kelvin settings to experiment between warn and cold lighting in my portraits.

I tend to like the colder portaits in this session.

I would appreciate your comments to improve my composition and technique .

All pictures are shot with Canon 5d Mark II with either a Sigma 85mm F1.4 or Canon 70-200 2,8 L II.

This particular one is shot with the 70-200, ISO 100, 175mm, f4, 1/250

The rest of the session can be seen here Vanessa - Outdoor portraits - JADupont's Photos | SmugMug

Many thanks.

[Tito87]

Welcome to DPS. Congratulations on your new gear. Nice shot, btw.

[guitarjunky]

Thanks. This forum-website is awesome! Looking forward to get point of views on my shots.

[NicolaB]

Hi and welcome.

Really great set for your first model shoot. Have you tried adjusting the wb in pp? I agree the cool setting is much better.

As for your post I think the pose is nice. I would have liked to see a little more of her far cheek to give more dimension. Watch for bright spots as they distract your eye from the subject.

hth

[guitarjunky]

Originally Posted by NicolaB

Hi and welcome.

Really great set for your first model shoot. Have you tried adjusting the wb in pp? I agree the cool setting is much better.

As for your post I think the pose is nice. I would have liked to see a little more of her far cheek to give more dimension. Watch for bright spots as they distract your eye from the subject.

hth

Thanks Nicolas. For that shoot I adjusted the WB using the Kelvin function, from cold to very warm, as a test.

More cheek and less bright like this?

[NicolaB]

Yes, more cheek like that one. This one also has a bright area of sun in her hair. Just moving her into full shade will sort this out for you next time. I suspect that even if you shoot in RAW, that her hair will not be recoverable on this occasion

Just a musing but, I think wb is very subjective. For my kind of family portraits it needs to be accurate. I think in fashion photography you can use it to create a mood or look? It does however take time to learn to see colour - but a necessary thing

[sk66]

I think the cold/warm images are all "too far"....Try adjusting them in post. It also seems like the "cold" are underexposed a bit and most of the "warm" a touch hot.

I just did a levels/exposure adjustment on this

[guitarjunky]

Originally Posted by sk66

I think the cold/warm images are all "too far"....Try adjusting them in post. It also seems like the "cold" are underexposed a bit and most of the "warm" a touch hot.

I just did a levels/exposure adjustment on this

Thanks, I agree, your version is better. Just a curve adjustment, right?

[guitarjunky]

new version with curves adjusted

[MFreitas21]

I like it like this......