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Candid Portraits in the Park
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Went out for a walk in Deer Park with my girlfriend last night, and of course I brought my camera along. Took a couple candid portraits because it was really nice light. Realized after the fact that I had left my camera at ISO1600. D’oh! Also my first attempt at doing grayscale conversions… be gentle, but firm :)
This first one was my favourite of all the ones I took – she had looked away, I shot her while looking away and then she looked back like “Are you still shooting?” – a bit blown out in the face, but I liked the effect.
(colour version of that one here)
The bottom right has a bit of lost detail in this one… I also had a bit of trouble getting some nice contrast out of it.
(colour version of that one here)
antifuse wrote:
Went out for a walk in Deer Park with my girlfriend last night, and of course I brought my camera along. Took a couple candid portraits because it was really nice light. Realized after the fact that I had left my camera at ISO1600. D’oh!
Yup… been there, done that :?
One of the best things for me has been to switch to fully manual exposure for most of my shots. You get a much better feeling of things, in terms of exposure/shutter speed/aperture. Now if I leave my camera on ISO1600 I spot it because I’m getting shutter speeds of 1/8000 with an f32 aperture :lol:
antifuse wrote:
Also my first attempt at doing grayscale conversions… be gentle, but firm :)
If these are converted via a straight change to greyscale, I would never have spotted it. They look much more contrasty/convincing. I think the conversions are pretty good, especially for a first time.
antifuse wrote:
This first one was my favourite of all the ones I took – she had looked away, I shot her while looking away and then she looked back like “Are you still shooting?” – a bit blown out in the face, but I liked the effect.
The bottom right has a bit of lost detail in this one… I also had a bit of trouble getting some nice contrast out of it.Compositionally, the first one is just streets ahead. It’s a really pretty shot. A tad overcooked in exposure and photoshop but nothing irrecoverable. Pretty girl too.. which always helps :) In the second, there’s perhaps a bit too unnecessary much space at the top. Both nice shots, well done.
ciaran wrote:
Yup… been there, done that :?
One of the best things for me has been to switch to fully manual exposure for most of my shots. You get a much better feeling of things, in terms of exposure/shutter speed/aperture. Now if I leave my camera on ISO1600 I spot it because I’m getting shutter speeds of 1/8000 with an f32 aperture :lol:
Yeah… I guess I just don’t really have enough experience of looking at what settings the camera is choosing for me just yet. More SLR experience required, that’s all.
ciaran wrote:
If these are converted via a straight change to greyscale, I would never have spotted it. They look much more contrasty/convincing. I think the conversions are pretty good, especially for a first time.
Yeah, I used a grayscale converter plugin I found on the net… I just used all the default settings for now, but it definitely did a better job than the straight conversion in PS.
I’m forever leaving my camera on 1600 after a gig etc, and don’t realise if I’m doing any street photography the next day, I shoot from the hip a lot and on Ap. priority. It can often work out the better though!
Composition of the first one is great, spot on.
The second one, I’m not sure of, maybe a tighter crop?
The light possibly works better in colour on the second shot!
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