raywei 0 Posted September 22, 2004 Wow. Alec, this is calendar material. Very well done. I am coming to Singapore on the next flight. :D Link to comment
alecee 0 Posted September 22, 2004 Ray, so the colors are OK now? Well, I'm quite new at portraits and I'm getting there. Link to comment
home page1 0 Posted September 23, 2004 You're on your way. Really nice composition. IMO, she would pop more with a bit more blurred and/or darkened background. Link to comment
alan_clark2 0 Posted September 23, 2004 I agree with the others, great shot, but the background is distracting. Link to comment
alecee 0 Posted September 23, 2004 Thank Ken, Alan, Chips. It's time to invest on a good prime portrait lens. Link to comment
salvatore.mele 1 Posted September 23, 2004 Alec, I've two general comments on this series of portraits. The first, is that with time I see you are doing better and better in having her at her ease with the camera...I'm pretty bad at this and I see your progresses which have to be commended. The second is that, sometimes, you've far too much background into the shot, like here, which is too much in focus and tends to confuse with the overall appearence of the subject. As an example the right hand side tree which distract the eye. I guess a portrait lens -aka something which opens a lot and nicely blurs the back- should solve much of this, but I would also suggest you think of the background when composing, in the same way you compose so nicely your landscapes... best wishes, s. Link to comment
raywei 0 Posted September 23, 2004 Alec, I think the colors are good; I would still put on your 50mm fast lens, no filter, to get better skin tone and simpler background. Link to comment
alecee 0 Posted September 23, 2004 Many thanks Francesco, Dusan and Salvatore for your valuable advise. Having shot a lot of images I know there are some with shallow DOF but unfortunately the nice looking features here has sharper background. Well, I'm trying and surely you will find better images coming soon. Again, thanks Ray for your kind advise. Link to comment
raddatzphoto 0 Posted December 12, 2004 Alec, the main thing here is to work more with this beautiful face. She is special. Link to comment
alecee 0 Posted December 12, 2004 Thanks Michael, I know, I'll do her justice the next time. Link to comment
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