Hi all this is my first attempt at portrait photography What do you think about this pic is it to sharp or to dark is the lighting wrong any help would be much apprieciated.
Excellent foundations for some really nice portrait work - I do agree with the comments about the diffusing of the flash & removing the borders but I do think that you are showing a great deal of promise if this is only your 1st attempt
Looking forward to more
(Edit: Tilting your models head upwards/shooting from different angles will help to soften any neck lines caused from tilting the head too)
Thanks for all your comments now you come to mention the light being to harsh i can see where your all coming from wasnt that obvious to me to start with, now how would i go about diffusing the flash on my Fuji Finepix s9600 is it basically covering it up with something suitable for only half the flash to penetrate.
and now i move on to processing with photoshop cs3 is there away i can reduce the brightness of the highlights without having to start all over again and also removing the border.
Even something like tissue paper will diffuse the flash. Try running the burn tool over the highlights, done correctly this can work well, although im no PS whizz!
As far as Im aware the only way to remove the border & highlights is with the clone tool, which for the border will probably be quite a laborious job.
I dont think its too dark and tbh, though as it is now, the one thing that stands out more than anything else is you irregular work on the skin.
The area down the centre of the forehead/nose/cheeks really stands out as obvious 'puddles' of unsoftenend skin (sorry).
Tbh, I think theres a nice picture in there and well worth the trouble of going back to the original and spending a little longer on it, she has such lovely eyes and smile, worth doing her justice.
Jmo of course.
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