Well 3:45am seems to be the time I should have done this! So here are the photos that I have been trying to upload for days... : ) So any holiday shopping, this is the time, no lines and no waiting... LOL
My husband and I spent the holiday very quietly. My children were with their dads and my husband was out hunting and not into sitting for portraits. So I used these photos I took for a senior high student. The indoor shot, I used my studio and lighting, which I isn't as I thought it was when I tested them before the sitting. Some were too hot on one side, and others I could see too much shadowing. Fortunately, I took many and there were plenty to choose from. The outdoor shoots were not as easy either since we were constantly waiting for the wind to stop blowing, and the sun was going in and out the whole time too. This made it hard for her to comfortably and naturally keep her eyes open, and where there was shade the background was the best. The outdoor horizontal ended up being my favorite as well as the one she chose for the yearbook. I think I cropped vertically though, since yearbook photos are usually that way.
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Hi Lisa - lots of problems with the net this weekend - may not alleviate until Tuesday since tomorrow is black monday for the big christmas cyber shopping day... it took me quite a few tries and staying up late friday night to get two of them uploaded.. good luck!
Sorry you're having some trouble uploading, but at least you had a collection of portraits to choose from for this assignment. I keep forgetting that you actually have a studio and was surprised at how you set up the first picture. I like the last one best as well.
I really like the photos - the last is my favorite though - it feels relaxed and the moment captured as opposed to a posed/structured shot. Time of day and weather conditions can be a hinderence, there was one of the tutorials that I thought was great that had wind in it, etc. and the shot came out much more dramatic because of the wind. Not sure if you saw that one... I went through all of them and the links... but can't exactly remember which one it was... if you go through it you will see it.. the girl has her hair flowing because of the wind. It might give some ideas in case this happens again in the future and you end up being forced to work around it. :)
Thanks Jay and Rach!
Rach - I remember the photo you are recalling with the wind blowing the hair, dramatic, but not sure this would have worked in this situation. She was definitely more relaxed for the outdoor sitting, since it was the second one, but I felt I had to keep the glam toned down because her mom was paying for it and I know her mom fairly well. I had a lot of shots were I realized after looking at the proofs, there was a bit of cleavage showing, which I did notice a few times during the shoot, but had a hard time positioning her so it wasn't there or as obvious. If she wanted to come back another time with her own money I would be more than happy to kick it up a notch, and have a lot more fun with it. I was being somewhat prudent in this shoot though. Especially now that my daughter is 15, I pay closer attention to those kind of things.
Jay - I don't think I ever seen the Internet/ISP be slow before, even during the holidays last year. It blew me away when at one point I went to Flickr that they said that in the last minute 6300 photos had just uploaded. The crazy thing was mine would load fairly fast, get all the way up to 99% complete and then just hang there. When I did at 3:30 this morning, all 3 photos flew and were done in minutes. I am not sure what you mean by "surprised at how [I] set up the first photo", can you explain what you were trying to say? I am curious to know.
Great professional looking shots, maybe we all have been having internet problems,...I have! Beautiful work, feel proud, she's so lovely!
Very nice photos here. She looked very relaxed to me in all of them but I love the third one best. Funny it's probably the one that feels the least "posed." I like the hair movement in it.
Sorry you guys had such issues with the net. Glad I was on the road...
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