Peter has inspired me; glamour

[cwphoto]

I was in a shooting frenzy on the weekend, so I thought I'd try some glamour-type shots which Pete does so well. All with EOS-1D Mark II N.

EF 135mm f/2 L USM. 1/320s @ f/2.2, ISO 100:

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EF 135mm f/2 L USM. 1/320s @ f/2.2, ISO 100:

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EF 135mm f/2 L USM. 1/320s @ f/2.2, ISO 100:

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EF 85mm f/1.2 L USM. 1/320s @ f/2, ISO 100:

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EF 85mm f/1.2 L USM. 1/400s @ f/1.8, ISO 100:

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EF 85mm f/1.2 L USM. 1/400s @ f/1.8, ISO 100:

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EF 135mm f/2 L USM. 1/100s @ f/2.2, ISO 200:

[rawpaw18]

Your right she does smile. I like the look in the fourth shot. The looking down shot I also like, poses seem nicely done as well. Very nice group of pictures. I thought you were finished loading them.

[cwphoto]

EF 135mm f/2 L USM. 1/100s @ f/2.2, ISO 200:

[jamison55]

You have a very pretty young model who seems to love the camera. My favorite is definitely "Looking Down". I'm a big fan of melancholy things (sad music, rainy days), and that one captures a sense of sadness...or is it a bit of teenage boredom!

I think Pete would have added just a touch more punch with some fill flash :ducks: :D

EDIT: Now you've added a couple more...I really like the lighting in "Lying Down".

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EF 135mm f/2 L USM. 1/125s @ f/2.2, ISO 200:

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EF 300mm f/2.8 L IS USM. 1/80s @ f/3.5, ISO 400:

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EF 300mm f/2.8 L IS USM. 1/125s @ f/3.5, ISO 400:

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Thomas with a new "Bionicle". EF 300mm f/2.8 L IS USM. 1/400s @ f/3.2, ISO 200:

[cwphoto]

Your right she does smile. I like the look in the fourth shot. The looking down shot I also like, poses seem nicely done as well. Very nice group of pictures. I thought you were finished loading them.

I think number 4 is my fav as well. Thanks for looking (yeah they take a while to upload from over here;) ).

[cwphoto]

You have a very pretty young model who seems to love the camera. My favorite is definitely "Looking Down". I'm a big fan of melancholy things (sad music, rainy days), and that one captures a sense of sadness...or is it a bit of teenage boredom!

I think Pete would have added just a touch more punch with some fill flash :ducks: :D

EDIT: Now you've added a couple more...I really like the lighting in "Lying Down".

F, f, fff, fffllla - sorry, can't even say it!:D

I think it's more boredom: "Dad, I wanna go play now!":rolleyes:

[jamison55]

Thomas is a handsome little bloke too...a bit of "Josh Hartnett". You should lock in your contract with Abercrombie right now!

[cwphoto]

Thomas is a handsome little bloke too...a bit of "Josh Hartnett". You should lock in your contract with Abercrombie right now!

Googling "Josh Hartnett" as we speak...:confused:

[coldrain]

Hmm, with such beautiful kids you almost make that 300mm f2.8 L look like a very nice lens! ;)

And you were right, your duaghter does smile. Very nice photos, and I really like the feel of colour your 1D Mk II N has. I saw that your wife was thinking you are going a bit overboard with the picture taking... she probably is concerned she might be your next test subject!

[jamison55]

Josh Hartnett (or as my wife calls him "puppy dog boy" - on account of his sad eyes)

http://clairev16.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/josh-hartnett.jpg

BTW - I hotlinked this off a site of someone who stole it from (Vanity Fair probably). Photo by Annie Leibovitz, my absolute favorite portrait photographer.

[24Peter]

Photo by Annie Leibovitz, my absolute favorite portrait photographer.
Hey - I thought I was your favorite portrait photographer! :mad:
And I don't always use flash guys - just sometimes :eek:

Christian - Elissa is a young beauty. Can only imagine what she's gonna look like in few years. I think I said this before, but you must already have your hands full with young suitors for her... :) Oh - and your photos are pretty good too - for a newbie at least. Give it some more practice and you could be pretty good at it one day kid... :rolleyes: :eek:

[jamison55]

Pete, you know that you are...I just didn't want to embarrass you!

[te1221]

Very good pics... I'm starting to get into portrait photography as well without flash. Having this F1.4 50mm is awesome :)

Any tricks to taking your pics?

BTW she kinda looks like mary-kate and ashley (not a bad thing), which is pretty cool.

[timmciglobal]

The pictures are quite nice but, and don't take this the wrong way, they are a bit... mature... for her age.

Especially the dress which becomes semi transparent in the shot... I got the wrong feeling off some of these. I'm sure SHE likes it but if I were her father I wouldn't.

Nice photos though.

Tim

[dallas75287]

Very nice photos. I see that these photos were taken with aperture pretty wide open. So I expected maybe the eyes and head to be in sharp focus, but I am surprised to see that vast area if not all of the subject are in sharp focus. Is it because of the L lens or because of the distance between the subject and camera?

[cdifoto]

The pictures are quite nice but, and don't take this the wrong way, they are a bit... mature... for her age.

Especially the dress which becomes semi transparent in the shot... I got the wrong feeling off some of these. I'm sure SHE likes it but if I were her father I wouldn't.

Nice photos though.

Tim

I have a pretty good feeling her father very much approves of these photos.. ;)

[timmciglobal]

CDI: I know he's the dad, but dad's have a way of looking at their daughters threw a fathers eyes and perhaps might not... appriciate... the tone of the photograph as a stranger might see it.

Tim

[cdifoto]

CDI: I know he's the dad, but dad's have a way of looking at their daughters threw a fathers eyes and perhaps might not... appriciate... the tone of the photograph as a stranger might see it.

Tim

I can see your point being applicable if the father wasn't the photographer but I think we should let him decide how to photograph his own children.

IMO he seems to appreciate her beauty and isn't lying to himself by pretending she's not coming into her own. I can respect that.

[TheObiJuan]

you have a darn good eye for perspective/composition.
Your daughter makes the pics wonderful, as you know a comfortable model seals the deal.
These pics can surely get your daughter a pro modeling job.

Adorable son, I can't wait to have kids..... :p

[cwphoto]

Hey - I thought I was your favorite portrait photographer! :mad:
And I don't always use flash guys - just sometimes :eek:

Christian - Elissa is a young beauty. Can only imagine what she's gonna look like in few years. I think I said this before, but you must already have your hands full with young suitors for her... :) Oh - and your photos are pretty good too - for a newbie at least. Give it some more practice and you could be pretty good at it one day kid... :rolleyes: :eek:

Thanks for your kind words Pete!:p

BTW, her Mother scares off all the would-be suitors - when she's mad, she's scary.:eek:

[cwphoto]

Very good pics... I'm starting to get into portrait photography as well without flash. Having this F1.4 50mm is awesome :)

Any tricks to taking your pics?

BTW she kinda looks like mary-kate and ashley (not a bad thing), which is pretty cool.

Thanks for the comment.

Tricks eh? Well when I was planning this shoot, I was restricted to just working around the home - so I didn't have a lot of choice for locations.

I originally wanted to do it all with a lens I had from CPS for the weekend (a 300mm) but I couldn't find the working room I needed in the spots I felt were good to shoot in.

So what I looked for was good light mainly - and our balcony upstairs provided a nice open-shaded area - although a little cramped. This meant that my working room was reduced and also my subject was pretty much right on top of the environment - hence the wide-open apertures for these shots even though I could have stopped down because there was plenty of afternoon light around.

Shooting wide-open (or close) meant that I could still draw attention to my subject under these conditions. The flip side is that this look kinda gives an environmental portrait look to the shot rather than your normal 300mm+ shot which totally destroys the background/environment. In some ways, I like the story that the wider field of view can give to portraits if balanced with low DOF.

I used my incident light meter and used M mode for most. Some of the clothes she had on were kinda kigh-key so this gave me accurate exposures.

I focused on the eyes. Shooting below f/2 can be tricky to get both eyes focused if not in same plane (depends on subject distance of course).

The posing we pretty much worked off each other. She would do most stuff herself but then I would modify it a little so it was dual effort there.

The most important part is probably the lighting. If you can find good light you're half-way there.

PS. I was going to do some backlit shots out in the open with the sun behind to give a halo hair-light effect but I now have a "blown highlights" complex courtesy of Mr 24Peter - off to see my therapist now...:p

[cwphoto]

The pictures are quite nice but, and don't take this the wrong way, they are a bit... mature... for her age.

Especially the dress which becomes semi transparent in the shot... I got the wrong feeling off some of these. I'm sure SHE likes it but if I were her father I wouldn't.

Nice photos though.

Tim

I appreciate the feedback Tim and I'll take your advice into consideration. It was just a bit of fun, but I can see where you're coming from.

Besides, you guys are far enough away - I don't need to worry about you!:D

[cwphoto]

Very nice photos. I see that these photos were taken with aperture pretty wide open. So I expected maybe the eyes and head to be in sharp focus, but I am surprised to see that vast area if not all of the subject are in sharp focus. Is it because of the L lens or because of the distance between the subject and camera?

It must be subject distance. When I do a 100% crop to check DOF it's pretty obvious were it ain't. Thanks for the comment.

[cwphoto]

you have a darn good eye for perspective/composition.
Your daughter makes the pics wonderful, as you know a comfortable model seals the deal.
These pics can surely get your daughter a pro modeling job.

Adorable son, I can't wait to have kids..... :p

Thanks Obi - like all kids they have their adorable days and their non-adorable days, but they're pretty special to me. Don't leave fatherhood to long if you can avoid it.;)

[24Peter]

PS. I was going to do some backlit shots out in the open with the sun behind to give a halo hair-light effect but I now have a "blown highlights" complex courtesy of Mr 24Peter - off to see my therapist now...:p
Hey, hey - none of that. I only hope one day my work can be half as good as yours Christian. My comment was about the limitations of our technology - not your skill or abilities. If you look at my portrait galleries, almost every shot where I tried to backlight my subject in direct sun results in blown highlights - plus, if that's not bad enough, I'm using fill flash on their face! :eek: In your shots, you managed to get perfect exposures on their faces without resorting to flash. That alone is a testament to your mastery - and my lack thereof. I mean Christ - look what I did to poor Lorena in this one:

http://photos.imageevent.com/24peter/lorenafinato/large/IMG_9083.JPG

She's got only 1/2 a right arm and her pants legs are really supposed to be a dark grey color.

So I was just wondering if the exposure latitude of film would have avoided that. But in the realm of digital photos, your photos (and at least some of mine :o ) are perfectly acceptable.

[cwphoto]

Hey, hey - none of that. I only hope one day my work can be half as good as yours Christian. My comment was about the limitations of our technology - not your skill or abilities. If you look at my portrait galleries, almost every shot where I tried to backlight my subject in direct sun results in blown highlights - plus, if that's not bad enough, I'm using fill flash on their face! :eek: In your shots, you managed to get perfect exposures on their faces without resorting to flash. That alone is a testament to your mastery - and my lack thereof. I mean Christ - look what I did to poor Lorena in this one:

She's got only 1/2 a right arm and her pants legs are really supposed to be a dark grey color.

So I was just wondering if the exposure latitude of film would have avoided that. But in the realm of digital photos, your photos (and at least some of mine :o ) are perfectly acceptable.

Just poking fun at ya Pete.:D We're both on the same wavelength - besides; you're the master of the glam stuff.