I'm with Bruce on this. Offer her the variations, but she obviously likes this one because she picked it. After all, you gave her a range from posed high quality images to "in the moment with all the flaws", which is what most folks want a photographer to do. Especially another "artist".
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11-09-23 10:38 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> A while back I posted about a friend wanting to use one of my photos for >> her album cover. She did a small run of CDs by herself, but now they're >> going off to be done for real. So rather than just the album cover, she >> needs pictures on the liner notes as well. So, while she's on a business >> trip, she has to get some shots ready for her graphic designer to do the >> layout, she's poking around on facebook picking her favorite shots, and >> asked for three more of mine. >> >> That's great, it's a nice ego stroke and all that. One of the shots is >> what I'd consider technically acceptable. I had someone hold my AF540 off >> camera, and posed a shot of her, and another musician. >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6176828342/in/set-72157627606964975 >> >> Two, pretty women, with nice smiles, what's not to like? I blew out some >> of the highlights, but for quicky portraits done on a stage with a single >> speedlight, I'm not complaining. > > I'd remove the red-eye from both girls and fix the hotspots and clean up the > skin blemishes on Michelle's cheek. CD art is printed at at least 400dpi > and small details are likely to show up. > > >> >> Another of the shots isn't too bad, if you don't look to closely: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6173860436/in/set-72157627606964975 >> >> And for ISO 10,000, it's not too bad. But blow it up at all, and while the >> K-5 is pretty damned impressive at ISO 10,000, it's still ISO 10,000, and at >> f/2.8 I'm not quite sure what the camera actually focused on, but I suspect >> it might be the bricks behind the musicians. > > That one's just fine, I'd say. A good performance shot. The softness won't > matter at the size that's likely to be reproduced. > > >> >> The last one she wanted, ouch. Considering the lighting, and that I was >> shooting hand held with the K-x at ISO4000, it's not bad. But, Don Quixote's >> loves their red gels. It looks like it was photographed in a darkroom: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6176866538/ >> So I tried a b&w conversion: > > Stop right there and ask yourself why you are trying to eliminate the red. > It's part of the performance; it's what the audience saw, after all; it is > the character, mood, ambiance of the space. This isn't a product shoot > where you need to colour calibrate everything to remove an unwanted colour > cast. > > I'd be willing to bet that the artist chose this shot because of what she > saw. She's not expecting you to monkey with it. > > I'd give the customer what she wants. :-) > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
