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(0 votes) 12:31 pm
October 20, 2013
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Hello everyone
Well after landscape, I have started to have a go at portrait photos. I would appreciate your comments and critics too 
as I am sure it will help me move forward for sure. I am sharing 3 photos using different approach so to reproduce the various tones. I had a hard time with the backlight on that day as it was cloudy.The first one is the natural skin tone while for the other two I degraded a little bit with sepia. I did post image processing using Capture NX2 software from Nikon.
Settings were as follows:
Aperture Priority:
Photo 1 – Natural skin tone – f/11 – 1/10 sec ISO-200
Photo 2 – f/6.3 – 1/125 sec – ISO-200
Photo 3 – f/6.3 – 1/160 sec – ISO-200
Thanking you in advance
Pretty good start, Rachidk. Portraits are always more difficult when landscapes. There is a lot to think about.
In terms of color I like #1 and 2. #3 is a bit too green to my taste.
In terms of composition:
#1 is my favorite. I would probably use a bit wider aperture to get background a bit more blurry so. I do like the fact that you can see her environment, which fits her perfectly.
In #2 you should have paid attention to what is going on in the background. Person walking out of her right shoulder – not good. Also you don’t want to crop at the joins. In this photo you cut her hands off.
#3 At this kind of horizontal head-shoot crop, when the model looks to the side, ofter rule of thirds works better then the centered composition.
5:21 am
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September 15, 2012
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Rachidk… As Oksana points out, portrait photography can be most difficult. You’ve done a commendable job.
The problems with #2 can easily be fixed by eliminating the walking man in Ps and cropping a bit more from the bottom.
With #3, I’d try cropping the right side of the photo – as much as possible without reaching her shoulder.
#1, certainly my favorite, can easily be made even better by straightening the post in Lr’s lens correction section.
Good luck on this quest.
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11:57 am
October 20, 2013
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Thank you Oksana & Mandrake for your precious remarks. I realize that it is much more complex for portrait photo. Practice makes perfect, they say, so I will have to practice and slowly getting there. Here are two more shots. May I ask you to comment please 
Rachid
12:44 pm
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September 15, 2012
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I absolutely love the first photo.
Your camera appears to have captured the serene and thoughtful nature of this woman.
I’ve included a crop that may better bring attention to her very expressive face.
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