Portraits

I have a lot to learn about shooting people.

These were all shot in manual with a custom white balance setting (our assignment this week).

Kat is a long time family friend. I spent a lot of time in middle school hanging out with her family! In fact, we decided the 2 hours she spent with me in the hot Alabama sun might just might be payback for all the dirty diapers I changed of hers when she was little! It's been such a joy to watch Kat grow into such a beautiful young woman, on the inside and out!

I did post process these a tad, but not much!

Lens: 50mm f/1.4, Aperture: 2.5, Exposure: 1/160th

ISO: 100, Setting: Manual!, Exposure Compensation: +2/3

No post processing
(I may have done my custom white balance wrong here though)

Lens: 50mm f/1.4, Aperture: 2.5, Exposure: 1/100th
ISO: 100, Setting: Manual!, Exposure Compensation: 0

Slight crop

Lens: 50mm f/1.4, Aperture: 2.5, Exposure: 1/160th
ISO: 100, Setting: Manual!, Exposure Compensation: 0
No post processing


Lens: 50mm f/1.4, Aperture: 2.5, Exposure: 1/100th
ISO: 100, Setting: Manual!, Exposure Compensation: 0
Cropped with sharpening and dodging of eyes


Lens: 50mm f/1.4, Aperture: 2.5, Exposure: 1/100th
ISO: 100, Setting: Manual!, Exposure Compensation: 0
Cropped


Lens: 50mm f/1.4, Aperture: 2.5, Exposure: 1/160th
ISO: 100, Setting: Manual!, Exposure Compensation: +2/3
Sharpened and dodged eyes and slight color curve adjustment

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Now part of what made this photo shoot so much fun was the subject...because she has this fabulous sense of humor that comes out in such funny ways! I blame any shake of my camera or blur of a photo on the fact that I was most likely laughing at what I saw through my lens (certainly not on my inexperience!).

Like her scary, old man face!

For these, we were actually at an abandoned house next to Kat's uncle's {beautiful} house that he was currently in the process of redoing. What you couldn't see in the pictures above was that she was carefully standing on an old rusty metal top of a bucket.

Ahhhhh...the fun things you can't always see through a lens!

About every 20 shots there was something like this:

...or this

...or this

Thanks Kat for your patience and a way fun afternoon of learning!