Critique Young love

[Morbid]

A quick shot of my daughter with her boyfriend taken last weekend. Shot against a white wall, Canon 70D and 430Exii bounced off white ceiling.

• ƒ/4.0

• 50.0 mm

• 1/250 sec

• ISO 100

A little dodging needed on the background to tidy it up, some skin blemishes removed.

IMG_7407 ce by Ian J Bradshaw, on Flickr

Thanks for looking, and C&C welcomed.

 

[michael23]

I like it, nice expressions from the two of them, lighting looks good (not an expert there by any means ) Not sure about the bit of white on the bottom right?

 

[Morbid]

Thanks for the comments Michael. The fun expression was because I'd just shown them a shot which was similar to this, which they were trying to recreate in this shot. Ellie had a funny expression in the previous shot but the pose looked natural. The white is just a bit if background. Perhaps I need to crop in a little if this is distracting?

 

[michael23]

I would most probably crop it, though I have been getting rather ocd with things just lately

 

[Morbid]

I share your OCD to some extent and did spot it when cropping this, but making his back completely straight looked a bit odd too. Might have another look tomorrow and see if I can improve the crop.

 

[Morbid]

Cropped in a little on the right to remove the white patch of background. I think this is better without the distraction. Thank you Michael for pointing this out.

IMG_7407 cev2 by Ian J Bradshaw, on Flickr

 

[cargo]

Like this photo very much and like it even more as you told us how it was lite Love the colours and natural skin tones too.

Gaz

 

[Morbid]

Thanks Gaz, I seem to manage ok with one speedlite in ETTL mode. Thanks for the comment about the skin tones too. Used frequency separation for the first time on this image on Ellie, to clear up her teenage skin. I changed the transparency on the layers so that it didn't (hopefully) look plastic.

 

[cargo]

No problem looks nice n clean very studio looking to my eyes

Gza