September 2008 - Photo assignment 2 - Portraiture of any kind

**Travis** · 09-26-2008, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by marko

Here's one I took last weekend at podcamp montreal. It's a very casual portrait of my friend Mitch Joel and musician David Usher

nice work!.... geez Marko............ what do you work for E-talk or something? you seem to be able to hob knob with elite cdn musicians quite frequently..

**AcadieLibre** · 09-27-2008, 03:41 PM

Great bunch of photos, really outstanding works.

**Marko** · 09-27-2008, 10:57 PM

Thanks Travis - just getting lucky I guess.

PKMax - I love that photo of your cheeky daughter!

**baddness** · 09-28-2008, 07:38 AM

This is my daughter. Yes I broke lots of rules, high noon, shadows etc. But this is about the only portrait that I have taken this month that I like.

**asterismos** · 09-29-2008, 01:16 AM

This is a portrait of a really sweet golden retriever who belongs to one of our neighbors.

**tomorrowstreasures** · 09-30-2008, 08:06 AM

Baby S here. I purposefully set the soft focus to balance the harder shadowing I wanted - Did I do ok on the eyes?

**Travis** · 09-30-2008, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by tomorrowstreasures

Baby S here. I purposefully set the soft focus to balance the harder shadowing I wanted - Did I do ok on the eyes?

I'm on my crummy laptop.... but I see banding all over the out of focus area....

cute baby though...

**tegan** · 09-30-2008, 10:04 AM

You caught the baby's expression perfectly along with a highlight in each of the eyes. What I don't see is a separation between the pupil and the colour area of the eye so he/she must have dark eyes. The shadow at the left hand side also portrudes into the eye area slightly which is not ideal. I would lighten the left white area of that eye in post.

The challenge is to determine what to keep sharp and what to soften. I am not sure that I would take the same approach as you, but on the other hand, I do not see a perfect approach either.

And before anyone else: AWWWWWW, What a cutie!

Tegan