Natural light portrait comments please

Invasion · 13 Jan 2008 at 16:55

Been messing around with my new Fuji 6500FD today and got this natural light portrait, thought it came out ok any comments thoughts most welcome!

James07 · 13 Jan 2008 at 17:07

Looks pretty much perfect, her left shoulder looks a little bright, how would it look if the brightness was lowered a little in that part of the picture?

EDIT: Im amature so dont laugh if thats an amature comment.

J1234 · 13 Jan 2008 at 17:12

^ Overexposed is the word you're looking for

fini · 13 Jan 2008 at 17:12

The hair's very distracting - try to clone out all the loose strands.

Sic · 13 Jan 2008 at 17:57

further to fini's comment, I'd lower the exposure and up the fill in light if you're using lightroom, that should make her left shoulder level out, exposure-wise

Aod · 13 Jan 2008 at 18:35

bare in mind, if you try to correct for every irregularity you'll just endup with a flat, boring and plain image, but i would agree that removing that loose strands of hair would be beneficial

James07 · 13 Jan 2008 at 18:37

Justin said:
^ Overexposed is the word you're looking for

Ty, ill remember that term.

Irish_Tom · 13 Jan 2008 at 22:22

For me the crop on the right hand side is just a little bit too tight to her head.

Panzer

RandomTom · 13 Jan 2008 at 23:45

Panzerbjorn said:
For me the crop on the right hand side is just a little bit too tight to her head.

Panzer

Exactly what I was going to say, along with the hair cloning and a tweak of the levels to get the exposure more in proportion this could be a better shot. I'd sharpen it a little too.

Invasion · 15 Jan 2008 at 21:23

Thanks for comments much appreciated...sorry I didn't get back sooner the little girl in the picture which is my daughter, was taken to hospital with Appendicitis

It has been removed and she is on the mend and quite pleased with Two weeks of school

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I agree with the crop being to tight but the window frame looked horrible as it was to much of a distraction.

I never noticed the hair until you guys pointed it out I will have a go at removing this.

Thanks again for comments when she is feeling better I will give it another go see if I can improve it.

Regards