Recent Works

[Brent McCombs]

Wow - I just found this thread for the first time. I have to say - the shots in this thread blow me away. I am fairly new, and shoot mostly beauty portraits, but absolutely love landscape and wildlife images. Anyway, I'm trying to learn, and am really fortunate to be going on Michael's Antarctic expedition next month (as late addition).

Anyway, in the spirit of this thread, I'll add a few of my most recent shots.

One is of a local actress/circus performer who played 'The Ghost of Christmas Past' in this season's production of A Christmas Carol at our city's main theatre. She floats above the stage on a sling/hammock aperatus hung from the ceiling. Quite amazing to see her do this, and she had me in to shoot a rehersal for her book.

Another is a black and white image of a new model for a local agency.

The last is a beauty shot taken during a series for a local hair stylist. The model happens to be with another agency in town, but they have told her she can't do commercial beauty, even locally, and just runway. My stylist and I both thought she might be able to do beauty, so we tried out a shot at the end of the set.

Brent

[wolfnowl]

Great work, Brent!

Mike.

P.S.  My niece lives in Halifax, and no, I won't ask if you know her.  Nice city, though.

[wolfnowl]

Belgium.

Cheers,
Bernard

Good one, Bernard!

Mike.

[ErikKaffehr]

Taken yesterday afternoon, processed in Lightroom. Ghosting images removed in Photoshop.

Best regards
Erik

Ps. Sony Alpha 900, 1/200 s, f/8. SAL 24-70/2.8 ZA at 28 mm.

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I've noticed that this title in the MF section of the forum is hugely popular, breaking a record for all threads I would estimate.

That disturbs me. I don't think MFDB users should take over this forum.

So I'm going to kick off this thread with a recent shot of the Himalayas, taken shortly after dawn from a 3000m hill, with my Canon 5D.

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[Chairman Bill]

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Brian - a true artist will suffer for his art. Van Gogh cut off his ear, I braved sub-zero temperatures, you need to go back & get your feet wet removing those ugly tyres & re-shooting that one.  

'Tis very nice BTW

[jjj]

Fog

Just a minor observation. If you place an image in centre of a frame, it 'appears' like it is below centre, more so with text underneath. Images tend to look more centred and balanced if there is more space beneath image that above image.

[jjj]

ah but the art director will have 43 images from that sequence ( here are  4 ) to choose where he liked the highlight! or did'nt. I did use the word 'random' in my post.Also the tungsten images are meant to be used just to establish the mood while the more detailed 'flash' pictures will be used to 'sell' the product.

I think the tungsten image is nicer. The 'correct' light is a bit flat in comparison. The warmth suits the image.

the 5dII is a blessing for my bad back and neck!  feels a bit front heavy with the zooms and the 85/1.2 but with the 85/1.8 and 50/1.4 a great combo for a days shoot

Are you using the vertical grip on bottom? Camera balances big lenses much better when attached and you have the extra shutter/controls for vertical shooting.
The 5D is nice and compact when paired with a small lens like the 35mm f2 and no vert grip.
Though I still miss my OM4/OM2s and their amazing compactness [and very, very good metering]. Not only that they had a bigger viewfinder, despite being so very small.

[sanjaynarayan]

Are you using the vertical grip on bottom? Camera balances big lenses much better when attached and you have the extra shutter/controls for vertical shooting.
The 5D is nice and compact when paired with a small lens like the 35mm f2 and no vert grip.
Though I still miss my OM4/OM2s and their amazing compactness [and very, very good metering]. Not only that they had a bigger viewfinder, despite being so very small.
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the grip arrived today, yes it balances the bigger lenses better...i prefer this 'with/without' option one has with 5DII than the 1 series

sanjaynarayan

[Hoang]

canon 20d . tokina 12-24 f/4 . 12mm
iso 100 . f/4.0 . 1/50s
Something I found interesting, while I was revisiting 'the sunken city'(A portion of San Pedro that was destroyed by a landslide) http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/program...e/15.01.08.html

[mjrichardson]

Hello and a Happy New Year to you all!

Here are two shots taken about a week ago in South Sudan, a place called Juba.

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Cheers.

Mat.

[Brent McCombs]

Great work, Brent!

Mike.

P.S.  My niece lives in Halifax, and no, I won't ask if you know her.  Nice city, though.

You never know - it's a small town in some ways. =)

B

[elitegroup]

I did a quick edit, one image with the concrete frame in the top left hand corner removed and one untouched. What do you guys think? does it look to distracting with the beam in the frame or am I just being pedantic? also it's to difficult to edit out the small concrete corner under her armpit because wisps of hair are also in the frame.

I couldn't avoid the overhead structure and the client/stylist insisted on this angle  

I'm thinking just leave the horizontal beam in the shot? much easier & save me a lot of trouble, what do you guys think?

Emily@Chadwicks

Canon 1Ds MK III, 70-200mm f/2.8L USM, ISO 100, f5.6 @ 1/200th -  Elinchrom Ranger RX AS, 27" silver BD w/sock diffuser (Processed in Canon DPP & Photoshop CS III)

[SeanBK]

I did a quick edit, one image with the concrete frame in the top left hand corner removed and one untouched. What do you guys think? does it look to distracting with the beam in the frame or am I just being pedantic? also it's to difficult to edit out the small concrete corner under her armpit because wisps of hair are also in the frame.

I couldn't avoid the overhead structure and the client/stylist insisted on this angle  

I'm thinking just leave the horizontal beam in the shot? much easier & save me a lot of trouble, what do you guys think?

Emily@Chadwicks

Canon 1Ds MK III, 70-200mm f/2.8L USM, ISO 100, f5.6 @ 1/200th -  Elinchrom Ranger RX AS, 27" silver BD w/sock diffuser (Processed in Canon DPP & Photoshop CS III)

I like it without the beam. I know it is more work but can you also remove the remaing beam under her triceps.  

[elitegroup]

I like it without the beam. I know it is more work but can you also remove the remaing beam under her triceps.  

I like the one with beam better, because it gives a more intimate feeling, which adds to the concentration on the model. The image with beam removed looks unbalanced. Save yourself the trouble of removing something that needs to be there for good balance.

Thanks for the replies 'SeanBK' & 'EPd', it's appreciated.

I think I'll just leave the image as is, the amount of work needed to fix it just doesn't factor into the time frame or budget.

Cheers  

[jjj]

canon 20d . tokina 12-24 f/4 . 12mm
iso 100 . f/4.0 . 1/50s
Something I found interesting, while I was revisiting 'the sunken city'(A portion of San Pedro that was destroyed by a landslide) http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/program...e/15.01.08.html

I like this shot.

[Chairman Bill]

A pretty hard hoar frost on the local hills today

[Josh-H]

Very Nice - I like it a lot.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Me too!

[BlasR]

me 3

[ndevlin]

Something different - shot for an osteopath friend of mine with his skull model. His initial thought was a large, clinical photo for reference use when treating, but we ended up doing a series that were a little more creative. 5D2 - 24-70 f2.8L

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