Good Old People Pictures

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Everyone has made a shot or two of people right? I like head and shoulder shots myself. Some prefer half length stuff. Others like full body portraits. How about you are you interested in people photography?

This is my buddy Ted I met on vacation. He was taking pictures of his wife on a side deck and I walked up to him and offered to shoot a snap of both of them. Did that and then showed him my camera and gear and we bonded instantly and had a fantastic vacation hanging out together! When I made this snap I had just shot about a dozen before he realized he was being photographed.



Ted's lovely and gracious wife Evelyn. I caught her unawares or maybe she was aware. Evelyn was super cool!



My cousin Nathan. He is a amateur film maker and as such is a Canon man. Had a 7D but now he downgraded to a 2Ti and a couple of better lenses. If he would just get a Nikon he wouldn't have to worry about stuff like that. lol

 
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Sohi Videostill

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Choice of ISO settings for wedding photography

Well, I frequently get asked how I deal with high-ISO noise, since many of the photos are taken at ISO settings over 400. The answer might be surprising … I usually don’t. Even though I own both Neat Image and Noise Ninja, (both excellent pieces of noise reduction software), I rarely find the need to run any images through these programs.

Personally, I use the entire ISO range available to me on my cameras. Fair enough, I do use digital cameras that are at the top end of the spectrum and they do allow me to use very high ISO settings with ease. (Currently these are the Canon 1D mk3 and Canon 5D and Nikon D300.)

And to show that I do indeed use the entire range of ISO settings available to me, here is a screen-grab of my window in Bridge where I edited images from a wedding that I would to give to the client.

So yes, I do hop between different ISO settings. I change my ISO nearly as often as I change my shutter speed and aperture. This is a notion that I think many photographers still have to get used to … that the ISO setting is another control that can be varied at will.
 
Pierro

Pierro

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All sorts of shots work for portraits - and yours work nicely Jeff, i have to say. Its just what is pleasing to the eye at the end of the day. No rules

I'll throw a couple of examples in the mix

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Very nice Pete.

I am sort of unhappy with all of my snaps from vacation. I had these grand plans to take tons of pictures but when I got there the whole experience was so overwhelming I think that I ended up taking a whole bunch of mediocre pictures. Which is about par for me a lot of the times anyways. None of my portraits were what I imagined them to be and I made so many little mistakes. I have put down the digital since I got home and picked up the film (I took the F2 and four rolls of film on vacation and shot exactly one frame with it!) and although I haven't developed them yet I have a roll of what I think will be good portrait snaps. I am sort of back in my own milieu and the film camera causes me to think a little bit more about what I am doing.

Probably the best shot I made out of 750 on vacation was the second one of Evelyn in post #1. I was either shooting at funny angles and not getting down to eyelevel with the subject or I was focusing wrong or I was exposing wrong or I was to far or to short or just plain composing bad. I probably didn't interact with the subjects like I should have and I wasn't even thinking about lighting because I was sort of dumbstruck by everything.

Alas I am still gonna work on being better especially with the portraits. I love learning all the little things as I go along but sometimes it is a PITA learning them because it costs you good kodak moments.
 
Pierro

Pierro

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Do what ever you have to Jeff, but just dont give up. As decent amateurs, we're all learning all the time, so with trial and error, we get there. I love the manipulated photo of the fellow and mountain, very thoughtful and works nicely as does the angle of shooting
 
Pierro

Pierro

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Here's another i thought was ok at the time, used an 18-55mm kit lens @ 55mm, f5.6, so DOF wasnt going to be what i wanted so i moved closer to achieve my goal, but is spoilt ( IMO ) by the woman on the far right. Cropping her out would have cut into my main subjects body, so i left it. Amateurs ! What are we like :cool:

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So do I sir. Same thing. That is why I hold people like the guy in my photo with dear regard...this man is 85 years old...older than me and you put together Michael...think about that for a minute...
 
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