Color (and the lack thereof)
This week, I was forced at gunpoint to do a project relating to color. Ok, not really, but it makes a good story!
Anyway, I decided to shoot some portraits of mi hermano. I shot photos on various backgrounds that had bright colors, then I desaturated all other colors to bring attention to main color. I think it turned out pretty good.
The photo to the left was shot in front of the San Francisco Sourdough Eatery (quite possibly the best sandwich shop ever). It was closed at the time, so the red gate made a great background.
The next image is next a green door, and I desaturated mostly all colors except green and cyan. I was originally going to desat cyan also, but I thought it looked good as this way.
Also, I just noticed a weird Safari bug, it seems to make images look less saturated than they are in Photoshop… So the image looks way different than what it did when I was editing it.
And here is the contact sheet of all of the images shot during this shoot.
On another note, I shot some senior photos for a friend, and they just got back to me with some more photos that they wanted me to edit. So I went through and edited more, and made some adjustments to the original images.
These images were shot a while ago, but recently they contacted me to do some more editing.
The inspiration for these images is: This flickr pool
So what your saying is that you finally got around to posting your blog and you want me to go and look at it again?
–Bruce Twitchell
October 20th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
YOUR A JERK!!!!! >=(
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October 21st, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I will agree 100% with Maria.
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October 21st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
OK, my response to your work-
Let me focus on the senior portraits since that is where more money is made in this biz.
Be REAL careful shooting portraits with a wideangle lens. I have started trying to shoot exclusively with my 70-200. I know of some portrait photographers who shoot with a 300 whenever possible. The wide angle gives that stretch which usually is not very flattering to the subjects.
Watch the light as well. The first one there are real harsh shadows on the subjects eyes. You can’t even see the eyes. If you are going for a dark and mysterious look, then you need to have more dramatic lighting all around and the pose needs to be darker and more mysterious.
Shoot with some fill flash! You have a flash, right? Seems like you do. Use it man!
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