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Couple’s Valentine’s Day Shoot
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I did a shoot of my Sister and her Fiancée down by the Quays a week ago, this was my first time doing a shoot like this, I’ve only ever shot bands playing live before. Both shot with a Canon 60D and Canon 70-200mm F2.8L.
No 1 looks a nice shot but it appears to be a bit soft? I would have lost those two cups also.
John17 wrote:
No 1 looks a nice shot but it appears to be a bit soft? I would have lost those two cups also.
Yeah, I missed my focus point and caught her bag it would seem. It was more a candid shoot so I don’t see the problem with the Starbucks cups, I think it helps prevent the picture from seeming stiff and posed.
They are both underexposed a little so if you have the raw file you probably need to up the exposure by about a stop.
The second one makes no sense unfortunately. I think if you had her turned towards you and took the photo from a lower angle it would look much better especially with the lovley bokeh you have in the trees.
honestly, 2 poorly executed shots. no story in either. whats the girl walking away from you on her own got to do with anything? how does it relate to the 1st shot? neither is sharp, and the b&w conversion is poor. bin for the 2 of these.
you said this was a shoot, was it an actual photo shoot or were you just arsing around with the camera with your sister and her fiance?
I’m afraid neither of these work for me. The first one is way too dark and you are too far away for there to be any kind of connection with your subjects. It looks as if you shot 2 strangers from a distance without being caught. Also as they human eye is generally drawn towards the brightest part of an image, the 2 coffee cups are the brightest parts of your subjects so they detract from the image rather than add to it.
The second shot is a nothing shot really. If she’s your sister then why shoot her from behind. Remember that you have an emotional connection with your subject but everyone else looking at this does not have that connection so the shot has to have something about it to make the connection between the viewers and a stranger.
Mark S.
Hmm…okay, thanks for the replies guys. The two of them asked me to follow them around for an hour or so to get some candid shots of one of their evenings out in town. The pictures have been well received by a lot of people but I wanted to think how they actually stood as photographs, you know? Photographing people like this is new to me, this was the first time I’ve ever done anything like this. After looking at them better I agree with what all of you have said! They don’t look dark to me though (will check my screen settings though!)
Thank you all for the input! I’ll keep it in mind for when I next do something like this.
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