update on portraits (15 img) - with comments

Ike615

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I have been absent from this forum for a couple months so I thought I'd update everyone with my latest photos. Comments and criticism welcome. (For some reason I'm having trouble getting the photos to show up here so if anyone can help with that it would be much appreciated)

1) A collage of photos taken at a park right after a down pour of rain. The sun came out and the lighting was beautiful. I climbed up in the yellow tree to get some of the photos and it made me feel like a kid again. In these photos I pumped up the green using the "selective color" tool in photoshop. Then I added a couple filters to give it a semi antique feel to it, more on this on #2.

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2) I tried my hand at adding an antique look to these photos. I've just started playing around with the actions in Photoshop and so far I'm very impressed. I've found a lot of free actions at Adobe's exchange website. You should check them out if you haven't already.

the website is: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchan...&o=desc&cat=190&l=-1&event=productHome&exc=16

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2b)
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3) This series of photos was taken at a very special place in Portland. It's an abandoned warehouse and is covered with graffiti, a perfect shooting location if you ask me. In 3d I back lit her with a an alienbee B800 strobe. I just recently got my alienbee lighting kit and so far it has been a lot of fun to use out in the field. I definitely have a lot more control over my images now, :).

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3b)
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4) These two photos were taken on a bridge looking down at the model standing on the bank of the stream. in 4a we were going for an alice in wonderland feel. We actually got quite the audience wondering what we were doing in the middle of the forest with her dressed up as alice.

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5) This shoot was a challenge. I had to take a innocent looking girl and make her look sinister as a fallen angel. The second photo was taken in between setups when I looked over and saw the light was coming though the building beautifully that I just had to snap a couple of her being back lit by the sun. This was also my first shoot working with an MUA.

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6) These shots were taking in the Pearl District of downtown Portland. I have been asked many a time if I photoshoped 6a. I did not. The model jumped off the park bench, quite high actually, and posed like he was sitting in the air. 6b is just your run of the mill urban shot.

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7) 7a was shot in an abandoned train caboose. I've shot here many times before but this shot seems to stand out above the rest of them. 7b was shot alongside the Columbia river. orginally the sky was pretty blown out but I used the burn tool in photoshop and it ended up giving it a cool mood to the photo.

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Thank you all for taking the time to look at my photos!

- Isaac
 
Ike...great looking stuff. I love the crispness of your images. Did you use the same lens for all of these? If so which? 24-70 f/2.8 L? If so, I GOTTA get this lens. I'm loving the colors and sharpness.
 
Great work!
Love the colors, mind telling how to achive that? or was it the lens?
What kind of lighting set up did you have?
What adobe actions did you use?
Thanks!!
 
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