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Photography Basics
LVS
Instructor: Al Mierau
May, 2009
R. Joanne Johnson

Week 6

The Photos for Week 6
Portraits

My granddaughter, Kelly, and I had great fun the other day just shooting 'portraits'. She is a dramatic young lady and I had asked her to bring hats and scarves, sunglasses, etc. for us to have some fun shooting! She did, and as the session went on, she was having fun assuming a French accent and all! (She is fluent in French and will be studying more at Drew University this fall.) Here are some videos of Kelly singing.

I tried all sorts of modes for doing the portraits, eveything from macro, to Aperture, to Portrait. I wish my Exif data would name the modes but it doesn't. The fill flash does make 'catch lights'. However, I seemed to have had it flash for only a few.

So, Kelly and I had fun together and I learned a few things about portraits that I wish I had known when the kids were younger!

The photos (all EXIF data on slides pages):
Week 6

1. Inside, strong backlight, some desaturation in Adobe Lightroom
2. Same scene as #1 without the desaturation
3. Cropped, close image
4. Some vignetting in Lightroom
5. Although my EXIF doesn't say so, I did use a Macro setting for this and I am happy with the DOF.
6. Lightroom Vignette
7. Lightroom Vignette
8. Lightroom Vignette
9. White balance adjustment in Lightroom, offcenter Crop
10. Cropping to fill the frame with the features of the face
11. With flash
12. With Falsh