I come back from work to see my post has double the number of replies only to find out a bunch of people bitching about sunlight, I found it funny.
Like all art, photography is subjective. What I find pleasing to the eye and "good", others see as utter shit. Thank you for all who have replied critiquing my portraiture work, I've taken that all in and will use it where I see fit on my next shoot.
>>2868909>It looks like a cheesy high school graduation portrait.That's why I am practicing so I can bust out cheesy senior portraits easily and make a little money on the side.
>>2868963>>2869199>just a editing question, what did you do to get this color tones? I use Adobe Lightroom for all my photo editing. (inb4 somebody bitches about me using VSCO) To get the tones I have in
>>2867910 I used a VSCO preset "Kodak Portra 160 VC" then went through and changed the preset to how I preferred it. It's not just a straight preset, there's a bunch more edits done to that photo to make it look like how it is. There's two gradient filters coming from either side to help lower the exposure by half a stop or so to compensate for my overpowered off-camera flash setup. Among other things...
>>2868973>>2868980>>2868977>>2869072>>2869158It was shot 25 minutes before sunset, regrettable so. I could've gotten such a better shot if I had my photo assistant there to hold a bounce/reflector off camera, but she wasn't there :/ I didn't like how those photos turned out because it was a pain in the ass to make them look somewhat decent.
