rpallagi

i used 3 lights here. hair, main, and backgrund light, plus

reflector.. how is it?

I decided to use a black bedsheet to make an interesting effect... How

do you like it?

I was the type of beginner who cropped tight. I did it automatically. I saw on my photos, that tightly cropped portraits looked better than the ones that showed more of the body and the surroundings. As I learned more and more, I realized, that coming out requires more knowledge in posing, lighting, and subject separation, colors and textures. I am still in progress practicing these things, and I will be for a long time.

I meant cheap, not becouse these kind of portraits are cheap, because they can be quite powerful. I meant that these kinda portraits require much less pain in the butt to do that half body or 3/4 or full body portraits...

I know its kinda cheap to crop tight, I ran out of ideas. How do you

like it?

Kinda understand.. I got the cheapest LG 22" wide monitor there is on the market, and I can not even calibrate it its so bad quality. So I cannot say for sure, that even after I did leves, color balance and shado/highlight, that this image looks the same on other monitors. I kinda hope, that even if its not the best quality image it makes people look, because of the photo itself, not only the post process. I still have soooo much to learn in studio work and prost processing. This photo is made after the 2nd day I used 3 flashes in studio. Hope after couple of years I will be less preoccupied with technical background, and spend more time on getting a powerful image. An image thats powerful enough to transmit a message to the viewer. actually 2 messages:

As my coach would say: a message about the model, and a message about the photographer.

merry xmas

Roland

Wonder how you think this classic lighting and posing fits the bw

conversion

I tried to keep it simple, but with all he basics. I miss the

hairlight though... and a hairdresser to make the hair look better

Requirement was: white background headshot, with gizmo showing for a

cosmetic company. How is it?

one flash with softbox left reflector right bg flash normal reflektor

Shot with a single studio flash (elinchrom d-lite) and a silver

reflector. I turned off the bg light to blend the clothing with the

dark background. What do you think?

shot by a window on left and a reflector right. post process with

camera raw.

any comments welcome