I hear you, Paul. As soon as I brought up this image in Lr and realized it was a keeper for pose and expression, I was chagrined to see that I'd so poorly framed it. But I have several other shots, so I'm going to see if I can steal some chair from another, stitch it in Ps and reframe as you suggest.
I really appreciate your comments. Thanks! On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Classic and elegant. The only thing I might suggest is moving her off center > to the right of frame and including more, perhaps all, of the chair. > But she looks great, and you've done some very nice work here. > > Paul > > On Dec 13, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> With this portrait I've finally achieved a very elusive goal: that of >> getting a shot of my partner (for some 32 years) of which we're both >> happy. >> >> http://goo.gl/skjul >> >> But I wonder: how many of you can take simply terrific shots of other >> people but are reduced to weeping wrecks attempting to capture decent >> looking images of their better halves? Or is it just me? :-) >> >> K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 36mm, f/5.6, ISO200. >> AF540FGZ in 40" convertible umbrella, slightly above, camera right. >> Triggered optically from K20D. >> PP: LR3.5, PS CS5 >> >> I must also acknowledge the assistance of Tessa, our German >> Short-Haired Pointer, who pulled goofy faces behind me which got the >> best expressions from the subject. >> -- -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.
