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Welcome to my blog! I run a small, residential portrait studio specializing in children's and family portraiture. Here I like to shoot for fun, and try new techniques. My website link is to the right, so please visit if you have a chance. I love to receive comments and suggestions, so if you would like to post a message...
4 comments:
It looks like you found just the right light. Good job.
I like the family shot! Great light, composition and relaxed family. It is tough to get that many people to all look good at the same time.
Lynette:
These beach shots are amazing! Can you tell me more about them - who they are, where you were, what the shoot was like?
These are some of the best beach shots I've seen.
Chris,
I did this shoot as part of a commercial shoot for a marketing brochure for a financial planning company in Turnersville (the head shot that you commented on was also for that same brochure, and I did head shots for the rest of the staff, also). The other family is my college roommate, who works for the financial planning company (which is how I got hooked up with the shoot).
These were taken in Ocean City around 40th street at around 5 p.m. I knew this was early for a beach shoot, but with two families to do, I couldn't wait until sundown. I had also never been to Ocean City to scout it beforehand, so I was a little nervous. I asked my friend to make sure there were dunes where we were going to meet. When we went out on the beach, it was really windy, so we came back to this dune, which was right beside houses. The houses provided the shade, and the sun was in a great spot right behind their right shoulder.
I am finding that I don't trust the in-camera meter for outdoor shots (and for indoor, either, for that matter). Jeff suggested hand metering and using the manual setting on the Canon, and that's how I shoot portrait shots now. I find the results are better, and it's how I am used to working anyway, since my medium format camera didn't have any automatic features (not even auto-focus!)
I also worked the raw files in Photoshop, softening them a little.
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