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Benji
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October 09, 2008, 11:35:29 AM
From Monday.

Benji
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BobEdens
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Reply #1 - October 09, 2008, 12:02:16 PM
Great way to pose his hands in the first one, *makes mental note*

I heard a saying concerning his scar.

"Scars are like tattoos but with better stories" 
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the_click_chick
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Reply #2 - October 09, 2008, 12:32:51 PM
you i find it funny . . . and it could totally just be me but in  canada... err lets just say Ontario  ... seniors portraits just aren't that big around these parts. . .


anytime i see someone say .. senior portrait... i'm thinking of an elderly person..... 


When people around these parts do portraits, its alot more 'how much family can we fit into the picture'  . . . . not just individuals. . . .

at my highschool - we had portraits taken (lifetouch .. i guess???)  and if you felt like buying those graduating pic's. . . . that is expensive enough let along getting more pictures done.


i just laugh everytime i see another seniors picture. . . .  Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin
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Marian Murdoch
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Reply #3 - October 09, 2008, 04:47:07 PM
Benji, did he have glass in those glasses? If so, great job with the lighting so as not to get reflections!

My only two nitpicks, and you can take them if you want or throw them aside:

1. Posing pudgy thighs, bent and facing the camera (even if turned just a bit) just makes them even pudgier.
2. His elbow in the second one is resting on the bottom of the image. I'd rather see more space below the elbow.

Otherwise, great senior set. Smiley
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BobEdens
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Reply #4 - October 09, 2008, 05:02:02 PM
Melanie:
Seniors are allowed in some school systems to use their own photos for the yearbook. Its a great gig for portrait photographers but hard to get into.

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Benji
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Reply #5 - October 09, 2008, 06:33:24 PM
Quote from: wildmaven on October 09, 2008, 04:47:07 PM
Benji, did he have glass in those glasses? If so, great job with the lighting so as not to get reflections!

My only two nitpicks, and you can take them if you want or throw them aside:

1. Posing pudgy thighs, bent and facing the camera (even if turned just a bit) just makes them even pudgier.
2. His elbow in the second one is resting on the bottom of the image. I'd rather see more space below the elbow.

Otherwise, great senior set. Smiley

Thanks.  No lenses in those glasses means no tedious Photoshopping attempting to get rid of them.

Football players are not concerned with pudgy hips!  Big Grin Big Grin

My crop for the net lopped off his elbow and I didn't catch it!  Thank You

Benji
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Travis Minnig
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Reply #6 - October 09, 2008, 09:20:56 PM
Great work as always Benji.

If I may...

On the first one, I think the hair light is a little too far forward on his head, and I really wish it continued the specular highlight down the shadow side of his hair.  It seems too much like a 'crown' as it is.  I really like the pose and wouldn't try to thin his hips at all from what you have here.  One, of course he isn't going to be sensitive about it, and two, he really needs the foundation to support his upper body.  If his lower body was any thinner, he would look like an upside down pyramid trying to balance himself, IMHO.

On the second one, I think a moer dramatic lighting ratio would help the fierce/stern mood that the expression is intended for.  Also, and I don't have a suggestion (sorry), I would like to see his hands in a stronger position.  As they are, they seem a little soft to me.  Again, there may be nothing to do that is better than you have here, but maybe...

I am being completely picky, you know you are the man.  I love that you will share here because I learn from everything you post.  I also learn from trying to pick apart details of nearly perfect images, though, so I hope you don't mind me doing so on yours.  Feel free to tell me why/why not on any of my suggestions, because I'll learn from that as well Smiley.

Travis
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Benji
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Reply #7 - October 10, 2008, 08:55:48 AM
Travis,

Thanks for your suggestions.  Don't ever be afraid to state what you think about anyone's images.  That is the way we all learn.  Actually you are right on both accounts.  A kicker light would have helped on both images.  Actually I used double kickers on nearly all of the images right before these (see below) and I was afraid he may get bored with seeing kicker lights in nearly every image, so I didn't use them here.  As it turns out kickers would have looked better in these images over the ones I did use them on!

Benji
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Ginnypenny
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Reply #8 - October 10, 2008, 10:41:08 AM
Quote from: BobEdens on October 09, 2008, 05:02:02 PM
Melanie:
Seniors are allowed in some school systems to use their own photos for the yearbook. Its a great gig for portrait photographers but hard to get into.



Around here most schools use Lifetouch images for the yearbook, but it's still a trend for the kids to get additional portraits done through another photographer.  It's a "coming of age" kinda thing.  The kids swap the pictures, mom hangs them on their wall.  I personally think it's a great trend.  I think any excuse to have great portraits done is great, but high school seniors have reached a big mark in their life and their parents are losing their little boy or girl.  It's the perfect time to document and to show their personalities and have something done for themselves.

And, Benji, great job, as usual.
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geno
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Reply #9 - October 10, 2008, 12:59:05 PM
Here I don't think they do the LifeTouch thing for seniors.  They have them do freshmen-juniors.  Seniors get their picture taken through professionals for senior portraits and submit one photo for the yearbook.  Senior portraits are a really big thing around here.

Back to the original topic.  I think they look great.  Nice that he was willing to take his lenses out, it's always such a pain when they won't.
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the_click_chick
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Reply #10 - October 10, 2008, 11:11:31 PM
Quote from: BobEdens on October 09, 2008, 05:02:02 PM
Melanie:
Seniors are allowed in some school systems to use their own photos for the yearbook. Its a great gig for portrait photographers but hard to get into.



not around these parts... thats cool if they did.     
we can add in pictures to the yearbook when we were growing up but they wanted candid snapshots .... enjoyng your school life with your friends.
nothing requiring copyright release.

mel.
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