On 5/15/2013 1:23 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I think that my favorite is the "close up" followed by 1560.
LeeAnn has a wonderful smile, and to truly show it off to it's
best advantage, you really need to come in closer and shoot
more portraits. Even if that means you need to invest in a 77/1.8.
:-)
Someday. If I have to move heaven and earth, I'll have one.
Seriously though, whatever glass you use, she has a lot of wonderful
smiles in that series, and you should spend more time photographing them.
I certainly hope to, but I'm afraid she may be moving to Georgia soon.
It's still kind of up in the air, so maybe she'll be around a little
longer. If so, I'm sure to get more opportunities.
My biggest complaint with the series is the lighting. You need to get
some fill light on her. Rather than spending money on flashes, just
pick up a reflective windshield shade, and get someone to stand just
out of frame and aim the reflections for fill.
I do need to get one of those shields, for sure, and would have loved to
have had one yesterday. Unfortunately, it was so impromptu, I wouldn't
have had a chance to recruit anyone to hold it. It went from setting
time and place to execution within a matter of an hour. She's just
finished her shift at Cracker Barrel, and the biggest issue she's had in
doing shoots has been getting someone to watch her children. I could've
gotten my niece to hold it, but she was the one who volunteered to watch
the children.
In the fields of yellow flowers, you did a great job with focus and
depth of field.
A shot that I'd love to see, would be like 1518, but shot with a long
lens (so that the out of focus horse in the background is a bigger
compositional element. Perhaps of her sitting or lying in
the grass so you can have a portrait, with the flowers fading from in
focus, to out of focus in the background.
I actually took my K20D with the 70-300 attached, but never touched the
thing once. I pretty much forgot all about it. I'll try your shot
suggestion next time I get a chance -- hopefully, soon.
All in all, that's a nice set (of photos) and I'm sure that
she'll be very pleased.
Thanks, Larry. I think she really liked the shots, and enjoyed the
shoot. She loves having her picture taken.
-- Walt
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