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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-21-2020, 05:23 PM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-21-2020, 05:23 PM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-21-2020, 05:22 PM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-21-2020, 05:21 PM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-21-2020, 05:21 PM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-21-2020, 05:20 PM
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Forum: Sold Items
08-07-2020, 07:27 PM
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Forum: General Photography
02-11-2020, 12:09 PM
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Forum: General Photography
02-10-2020, 04:46 PM
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I use a K1-II, 28-70 f2.8 , and a 50mm f1.4
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Forum: General Photography
02-10-2020, 04:03 PM
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My new years resolution for photography was to learn how tomake portraits. How to use off camera lighting and styles. TraditionallyI have always been what I call a landscape photographer. I have made some astrophotographs, as well as done some macro work. The next thing I wanted to learnwas how to make portraits with off camera lights. For Christmas I received a few gift cards , andproceeded to buy some LED lights with diffusers .
I am blessed , my wife is such a truly wonderful , helpful and understanding person to myphotographic hobby as well as my goals and ambitions.“ I have a date set up for you to take headshots for 8 agents at work . This will give you a great opportunity to help youlearn how to take portraits with a friendly group of people “
I did some research and learned about the 5 or 6 basic lighting techniques everyphotographer should know. Practiced the various set ups so I could smoothlytransition through them with my new subjects.
The big day came , and like anyone trying something new forthe first time in front a new audience I was scared. For the most part I gotthrough all 5 different lighting styles with each of them . Remembered toposition my camera in portrait style as well as landscape. I found out that using the landscape attitude of the camera washelpful as some pictures on websites require square format. When I used theportrait format in my camera their heads or chins were cut off when theyuploaded the images.
Did some very basic processing and cropping inlightroom. Emailed the jpegpictures out to everyone. All is good ! I amanxious to learn more. On to the next portrait challenge.
This is when things changed for me . I received many thanksand wonderful compliments. I was lucky they were a friendly group . Most of the emails I received back, could yousoften the focus, is there anyway you could make the picture look like it wastaken from farther away, other than the subject in the photographI liked the pictures and am thankful forthem,can you remove that red tint frommy skin, can you remove the double chin?
I asked myself, and this is where it can get deep, how doportrait photographers deal with taking pictures of people who are not happywith the way they look? Is this a commonthought among society? Why are we not happy with the way we look? Did we set astandard of how we would like to look ? or is it because we do not look like … insertfamous good looking person name … that we are not happy with ourphotograph?
Or does it go farther ?
Another thought I had , do I keep practicing portraitphotography and find that dramatic shadow combination, spectacular lighting,special pose, or camera angle to makethe person I am making a picture of look and feel like …. Insert famous goodlooking person name.
I have a new found respect for portrait photographers.
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
12-20-2019, 03:01 PM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-20-2019, 02:57 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-17-2019, 02:13 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-17-2019, 02:12 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-17-2019, 02:11 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-16-2019, 03:34 PM
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congratulations, that is a really nice photo. I like the composition
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-16-2019, 03:30 PM
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I like the second picture. nice job
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-16-2019, 03:27 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-16-2019, 03:27 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-16-2019, 03:26 PM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-16-2019, 11:33 AM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-11-2019, 08:50 AM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-09-2019, 07:42 PM
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Welcome, looking forward to seeing more pictures
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-18-2019, 07:37 PM
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Forum: General Photography
01-22-2019, 08:19 PM
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I live in Gig Harbor, and managed to get a few pictures , It got cloudy shortly after I took these https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=438168&stc=1&d=1548213656
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