Feedback on lighting please

[ryanlikealion]

.I am making a photographic story of the "music therapy" work i deliver on a Monday afternoon. This photo is just the beginning of things really - i'm trying to work out how to deal with the poor lighting in the room.

For this i used natural light (coming in from a a west facing fire door) and bounced it toward this lady using a reflector. NOW the questions I have are - is the lighting to hard??? Is her face to white? How is the contrast? Would i benefit from using red/green filters?

Anything else you can think of - just would love to get a strong set of 15 pics for this project.

[Niresangwa]

Could you please attach your EXIF information, per the forum rules? It will be much easier for us to help with suggestions.

That said, based on what you have here..

The lighting isn't too harsh, but there are other issues detracting from the image.

The biggest two to me, are composition and the black and white conversion.

The composition doesn't do the image any favors, and seems thoughtless and has plenty of distractions detracting from a rather engaging subject.

The conversion is too dark and muddy for my tastes... too much grey, and too flat. Combined with the competing elements due to the composition, it doesn't do credit to the planning you attempted.

[Weird Girl]

I agree that this might look better in color. Also, her eyes are not in focus- her jacket is. There is also a white artifact on her bangs that is bothering me- you can clone that out. I like the idea of this photo! I think a tighter crop would be better so the background is less distracting.

[ryanlikealion]

Thank-you for the feedback.

Originally Posted by Niresangwa

Could you please attach your EXIF information, per the forum rules? It will be much easier for us to help with suggestions.

Should it be easy to obtain this from the jpeg stored on my computer. I can't find this info from the jpeg stored on my hard drive or from photoshop.

I know that in the forum rules it says you can get it from your flickr account - i don't have one of these and wouldn't want to put these pictures on flickr as they are work-in-progress and not final compositions.

[Tito87]

Originally Posted by ryanlikealion

Thank-you for the feedback.



Should it be easy to obtain this from the jpeg stored on my computer. I can't find this info from the jpeg stored on my hard drive or from photoshop.

I know that in the forum rules it says you can get it from your flickr account - i don't have one of these and wouldn't want to put these pictures on flickr as they are work-in-progress and not final compositions.

You can get the data in Photoshop: click on File; then, click on File Info... and it'll be there.

[ryanlikealion]

Originally Posted by Tito87

You can get the data in Photoshop: click on File; then, click on File Info... and it'll be there.

Cool thank-you. So i can see that i took this on 16/01/12, ISO 100, FL 50mm, Shutter Speed 1/80, Lens EF 50mm f 1.8ii.

I'm new to the idea of presenting your exif info along with the photo in a forum - is there a more efficient way of doing this - it didn't let me copy and paste from photoshop - so i've written them down and then posted them (god that sounds lazy complaining about having to actually write something down!!! )