Smiley blue eyed girl

[aroberts]

Did some senior portraits yesterday, and I had some trouble with bluish tones in a lot of my photos. I did some post production saturation etc and came up with this on one of them. I am a little worried that it is too warm now? I'm working on a laptop so it always concerns me when I do any post work.
So my question is, how do the colors look? And also would you have done anything differently? Was my ISO too high?

EXIF
Canon EOS 50d
f/3.5
ISO 800
1/800 second
focal length 35mm

[cphoniball]

First off, nice shot.

On my monitor (calibrated) it does seem a little warm/yellow. And you could have stood to drop down to 200 ISO or so, I've found that shutter speeds of 1/200 or so are plenty fast enough for portraiture work. I tend to take several shots of the exact same pose mostly to ensure one of them is in focus anyway - so any slight possible motion blur should be eliminated as well.

I would have posed her where there wasn't a board (or whatever that is) intersecting with her head, but otherwise the composition is nice and simple. I'd also pull back just a tad bit on the vignette.

[APAPHOTO]

The image looks great!
my only beef is the ISO, i dont know the exact lighting situation but i do think that 800 was just abit too much

[aroberts]

Originally Posted by cphoniball

First off, nice shot.

On my monitor (calibrated) it does seem a little warm/yellow. And you could have stood to drop down to 200 ISO or so, I've found that shutter speeds of 1/200 or so are plenty fast enough for portraiture work. I tend to take several shots of the exact same pose mostly to ensure one of them is in focus anyway - so any slight possible motion blur should be eliminated as well.

I would have posed her where there wasn't a board (or whatever that is) intersecting with her head, but otherwise the composition is nice and simple. I'd also pull back just a tad bit on the vignette.

Thanks so much for your honest input! I will tone down the warmth of the photo. I'm not totally sure why I had the ISO so high, I think I set it when we were inside the dim mill and forgot to change it later. I will remember that about the board as well. I'm still trying to train myself to be completely aware of the surroundings.

Originally Posted by APAPHOTO

The image looks great!
my only beef is the ISO, i dont know the exact lighting situation but i do think that 800 was just abit too much

Agreed. I need to remember not to forget!

[PhotoPhix]

Originally Posted by aroberts

Did some senior portraits yesterday, and I had some trouble with bluish tones in a lot of my photos. I did some post production saturation etc and came up with this on one of them. I am a little worried that it is too warm now? I'm working on a laptop so it always concerns me when I do any post work.
So my question is, how do the colors look? And also would you have done anything differently? Was my ISO too high?

EXIF
Canon EOS 50d
f/3.5
ISO 800
1/800 second
focal length 35mm

A little color balance and some minor sharpening.


Armando

[daddyoproductions]

You go Armando...the only thing to watch with warming things up is you have to mask out what's supposed to be blue, like those amazing eyes

[mandyatm]

I think it looks good and the colors look nice to me on both of my monitors. The focus seems soft on the eyes, so I would sharpen them a bit.