Post your Portrait shots!

Rick M

Senior Member
I noticed we don't have a thread for random portraits. I'll start off with one of my son, shot with the EM-1 and 12-40 2.8 pro,

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J-see

Senior Member
Humans ain't my thing but I had some Christmas shots in my unfinished and since my skill at processing these is practically zero, I tried what was possible.
My sister's kid.

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And another version.

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Harder than ducks.
 
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J-see

Senior Member
I had some family thing going on and was bored enough to try some portraits. I must admit there is some interesting aspect to it.

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LouCioccio

Senior Member
Same candid "portrait" but I decided not to use any Adobe products and to see how the workflow ended up. I have been playing around with several Mac OS X "photoshop" type of apps. After using PS4 through CS5 and teaching classes on Elements this has been a learning experience. The setup is the back porch out side while the granddaughter is playing with her favorite medium dirt plus water =mud. Yes when she took a bath the water was gray. These are 'snaps" hand held with a Tamron 70-200 F/2.8. I open the RAW with Corel After Shot Pro as Serif Affinity Beta does not have the RAW module working. Affinity saw my photoshop plugins but did not seem to work. So I saved the image in their native format and then exported as PSD file. Open in On On Perfect Suite 9.5 and finally saved as a jpeg. It seems Affinity or ON One stripped the EXIF so I reopen in Acorn and here is the EXIF. Pixelmator and Affinity tools seem small on my iMac but Acorn tools are larger. All three have similar features as photoshop which is good for some competition.
Please comment on the image I did make one vertical and much tighter.
Image Created: 2015:05:02 19:43:16
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec
F-Number: f/2.8
Exposure Program: Manual
ISO Speed Rating: 800
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Metering Mode: Spot
Light Source: Unknown
Flash: No Flash

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Lou Cioccio
 

FastGlass

Senior Member
Same candid "portrait" but I decided not to use any Adobe products and to see how the workflow ended up. I have been playing around with several Mac OS X "photoshop" type of apps. After using PS4 through CS5 and teaching classes on Elements this has been a learning experience. The setup is the back porch out side while the granddaughter is playing with her favorite medium dirt plus water =mud. Yes when she took a bath the water was gray. These are 'snaps" hand held with a Tamron 70-200 F/2.8. I open the RAW with Corel After Shot Pro as Serif Affinity Beta does not have the RAW module working. Affinity saw my photoshop plugins but did not seem to work. So I saved the image in their native format and then exported as PSD file. Open in On On Perfect Suite 9.5 and finally saved as a jpeg. It seems Affinity or ON One stripped the EXIF so I reopen in Acorn and here is the EXIF. Pixelmator and Affinity tools seem small on my iMac but Acorn tools are larger. All three have similar features as photoshop which is good for some competition.
Please comment on the image I did make one vertical and much tighter.
Image Created: 2015:05:02 19:43:16
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec
F-Number: f/2.8
Exposure Program: Manual
ISO Speed Rating: 800
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Metering Mode: Spot
Light Source: Unknown
Flash: No Flash

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Lou Cioccio
Nice shot. Love her look. To bad you didn't shoot it in portrait.
 

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
Awesome idea for a thread :)
That works really good. Do you remember which "aperture" ring you used? I have the lens baby too :)

Sorry I don't remember. But it probably was around 3.5 since I rarely used it at it's maximum aperture.
 

LouCioccio

Senior Member
Here are two crops of the same image one with negative space and one at a tight crop.
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The tight one is the one I liked. I also did the cropping in Affinity and the crop tool is slightly different in what you expect in Photoshop but you get the hang of it. I am really pleased with this lens that I have compared with the Olympus 50-200mm SWD when I had the Olympus equipment.
Lou Cioccio
 

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