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Harry Jasper
{K:2913} 9/25/2005
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Very nice shot good contrast and DOF somewhat soft this works very well for me.
Ps Thanks for your nice comment on my picture snowbell.
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John Azzopardi
{K:1833} 7/7/2005
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Very nice composition and model. Also very interesting reading the Pro. comments on this shot.
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Erland Pillegaard
{K:34147} 7/2/2005
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Well done portrait with good light
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Sava Savic
{K:326} 6/27/2005
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Beauty portrait, bravo, excellent!!!
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 6/21/2005
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I'll try that, Brian.
Thanks for the feedback! That's what makes Usefilm so valuable.
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Brian T. Ach
{K:1742} 6/21/2005
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Nice shot! Congrats on the new camera, what a story. Try using an adjustment layer and and adding some film grain to the shot, say #3 on grain slider and #3 in intensity. Then you can adjust opavcity of the adj. layer to your liking. I have used this technique to attain incredibly film-like images from digital shots.
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Mark Sherman
{K:15669} 6/20/2005
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feels very smooth and polished but without loosing the person within.
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 6/15/2005
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Thanks for the honest feedback, Del.
I appreciate it.
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Del Metheny
{K:25617} 6/15/2005
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I am not much good at technical stuff but I would place them 3,1,2 for my order of how I like them. That is more because of how you had her pose than anything else. I like the natural look more than looking like you are posing as she does in two. Del.
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 6/14/2005
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Oh, yeah!
Those are worthy improvements to keep the focus on her face, Don.
Thanks!
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Don Loseke
{K:32503} 6/14/2005
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Paul, a very nice series. It might help if you could use a reflector to put just a little light into the shadow side. I would also darken the lower portion to take the edge off the white of her top.. Don. I have worked t his just a little. See what you think. I darkened the bottom and lightened her left eye a little.
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Mark Julian
{K:36866} 6/14/2005
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Hi Paul, I was out back building a rocketship (after the Jackson jury spoke I realized I REALLY need to get off of this planet) but I popped inside for awhile to take a break. Here's what I would recomend on the lighting. First, put your light up a bit higher and more out front 45 degrees / 45 degrees (it looks pretty low in the catch light in her eye) The most important thing my lighting teacher taught me way back was set up your main light at the same angle as the sun travels. It looks like you have yours at sunset. I would put it up at about 45 degrees (our where the sun would be about 3 or 4 pm in the summer. Second, you really have to use a fill light (second one, on the other side) at about 90 to 60 % as strong as your main light - especially for women. I would also over expose slightly. See, with women,you don't want to make their lines stand out AT ALL. In fact you want to wash them away with your lighting (I also ALWAYS use softboxes for women - ALWAYS). The way you have it set up here that little indentation in her forehead shows up + the slightly dark circle under her eye and the line on the side of her lips (having her face / head turn away from your main light just makes the situation that much worse). PS has changed things where you could fix all that with PS but I think setting the lights up at the right height and angle (the old fashioned way) is still the best bet. My lighting teacher has a website (www.bobbilane.com - hope I got that right) and she teaches in New Mexico (Santa Fe) - not to far for you I think + LA ,NYC, and Maine. She might have a book out or be part of a book. She was great, an A+ teacher.......hope that helped - always keep it simple (I personally am not into hair lights but that's me.IMO, it gives it a high school yearbook look)......back to the rocketship........Mark
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 6/14/2005
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Oh, Good idea on the back-light, Becca.
I'll make sure to do that for dark backgrounds next time. Thanks!
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Rebecca Raybon
{K:26654} 6/14/2005
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I like the bw version better than the color. SOme people are born to do bw.. she is one of them. NAtural beauty. I'd suggest maybe a little backlighting also to bring out the highlights from her hair. Nice work!
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Stefan Engström
{K:24473} 6/14/2005
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I'm no guru but I can always opine... I like the soft light and contrast in her face and hair. It looks just a tad soft in focus but that's okay if you are simply refraining from applying a USM. With the soft contrast in the face I wonder if a lighter background might not have been something to consider.
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ARMANDO ALCÁZAR
{K:42404} 6/14/2005
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I saw your two Ashley pics of today and for me are simply perfect, congrats my dear friend and God bless you 
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