What fun I had today pretending I was a real photographer with my friends, Carolyn and Vicki! They had asked me to do some head shots for them, and it was great practice for me. We had so much fun figuring out the best light and poses!
I was meticulous about doing custom white balance today, because I really dislike doing skin by the numbers in post processing. I still had to adjust skin tones a bit, but, because the white balance was consistent in each setting, I was able to “lift and stamp” the settings in Aperture 3 (this is the same as “sync” in Lightroom)- and I’m happy with the results.
Here are two of my favorites of Carolyn. . .
. . . and two of my favorites of Vicki.
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very nice Mel
Serioulsy, you have become a professional photographer because hese photos are professional quality!!
seriously!
Melinda, these are fabulous! I agree with Nevin. These are clearly of professional quality. Not only are these photos perfectly focused and exposed, you managed to elicit wonderfully natural-looking expressions. They are not contrived and they don’t look posed. Great job. Bravo!