Especially the less "formal" ones, where they let down their guard a bit. I'm sure they'll be pleased as punch with all of them, even with the blown out over-exposed patch of grass in the background of some of them (but hell, what can you do?).
The B&W's work much better WRT that blown out grass, BTW. It's much less obtrusive than in colour, IMHO. OTOH, I still don't like what digital does to or with b&w. Still, they're all very nice shots.
Nice work, Tan.
The glam shots with the model do less for me, but that's really a personal bias. I'm just not much of a model person (photographically speaking - I mean if a model came up to me and wanted to go for a beer, that would be fine <g>). They're competently done, to be sure - I would even say professionally done, but this type of work just lacks "soul" to me in most cases. Sometimes I'll see something that grabs me and slaps me in the face, and this just doesn't for me.
Well done, but not what I need to wake me up - but as I said, personal bias more than the quality of your work, I assure you.
Still, you axed for comments <vbg>.
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Somebody asked about *istD portrait pics? Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 03:36:44 +1000
A few weeks ago...
Well, here are some that I took today...
The first gallery is a couple, these are their engagement pics. They suck
majorly cause there is way too much flash in them. But, I guess that
happens when they turn up at MIDDAY (4 hours late and then I still had to do
her makeup which takes almost an hour itself!!) for their sitting. I had to
use HEAPS of flash due to the hugemungo shadows on their faces. Remember we
are in Outback QLD and at midday today it was approximately 42degrees
celcius with barely a scrap of shade in sight. So, I found the only shade I
could and spent the whole time swearing under my breath about how beautiful
the light was at 8am when they were supposed to be there!
Exposure varied greatly, but I think they were mostly around f16, 1/150th (using Tamron 28-200mm asph. f4-5.6, and also old manual Tamron 135mm f 2.5). Took a couple of shots without flash and the exposure was reading at f27, 1/750th!! There was waaaaaay too much light to be outside shooting bloody portraits!
Oh, and they look a bit dark and over saturated on the web on my monitor, but when working in my lab's colour space in PS they look better...
FYI, there is one shot amongst these that I think is hilarious, I am not going to point it out, but I am interested to see who notices it first...
Here's the link...
http://www.tanyamayer.com/boothgallery/index.html
Secondly, I managed to rope a model into posing for me so that I could try out some studio stuff... Before you go looking for them, there are NO BUTT SHOTS (or fanny or whatever you refer to it as!) here, and no looking down her top either ok!
http://www.tanyamayer.com/portrait8march04/index.html
Comments, criticisms, praises, whoops of delight, cries of disgust, threats of lynching or even pleas that fairygirl be cannonised all welcome...
;-)
tan.
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