Friends shot last Sunday

[Antonio Correia]

Last Sunday we payed a visit to some friends and I carried the equipment as usual: 11,7 Kg !!!!
After having dinner, with the fire place on, as it was very cold outside, in a cozy environment I shot a few pictures of my friends.
My wife was my talking assistant, holding the flash.
At the beginning, on the spot, I was not very happy with the pictures I was taking and shimping but it turned out to be a pleasant surprise after I worked the pictures on LR.
Unfortunately - I must confess - I was not using the ST-E2.
But I was using the 5D + 24-70 which has allowed me to make the crops in the computer the way I wanted to give character to these portraits.
Both images are dense and rather heavy, but I like the density on both of them. Even with certain small burned areas.

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[Asher Kelman]

Hi Antonio,

I like both shots for the humanity expressed. The highlights on the man is most acceptable. Still I'd look at the shadow highlight tool in photoshop and tame the effect in the first picture. In general, one has to be careful of side lighting skin as it brings out texture bad with the good!

Thanks for sharing,

Asher

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Asher
In fact, the pictures are bot underexposed and if I recover some detail of the shadows I'll have much noise.
Thank you for your comment.

[Ken Tanaka]

These are excellent casual portraits, Antonio. The kind that can give these people everlasting life.

One suggestion: Your title of this thread "Friends shot last Sunday" reads like a crime headline, particularly to someone from Chicago. In the future you should consider "Friends photographed last Sunday".

[Antonio Correia]

Originally Posted by Ken Tanaka

These are excellent casual portraits, Antonio. The kind that can give these people everlasting life.
One suggestion: Your title of this thread "Friends shot last Sunday" reads like a crime headline, particularly to someone from Chicago. In the future you should consider "Friends photographed last Sunday".

Good suggestion Ken. LOL
I will be more careful next time. In fact, I hope to be able to photograph some other friends one of these days ...
I can tell you a secret but don't tell anyone.
And the secret is: The photos are underexposed. So far, I said nothing new as I have told it before.
But the problem is that I am a lurk with the flash without the ST-E2. A disaster and a shame.
I couldn't get one - yes one - properly exposed photo - with both flashes.
Some times the pictures were underexposed, sometimes over exposed.
A Hell on Earth. (It does exist already)
Well, I don't really practice much thought I read and read over and over.

But in practice, on the field, it is always different.
So, the only escape - the only way I could get the pictures right - was to turn them in black and white and work on them.

But what is more curious - and I was thinking about this some time ago - is that if I wanted to repeat the same setting I wouldn't know how to. Well, not exactly but almost.

And they turned out to be very strong pictures.
I do do - twice - like these portraits though I am not sure if the photographed persons will ... mainly the one posted here.

But now I post one more photo. I think it is the best photo in the set.
It is a psychological portrait of this woman here.
About what is inside her I know little, but of what I know, it is very very - twice - psychological.
Do you get what I mean ? Black and white make things even better.

Your opinion please, if you are so kind to.

I couldn't and didn't want to resist to post this other one revealing a complete different person

[oli murugavel]

I love their smiles and glossiness in eyes... Adding a little bit of yellow shades may make them dramamtic... But they work well as they are...!