I am just getting back into portraiture after a 10 year or so hiatus, and back then I used film and medium format cameras.
The last couple of years, I've been concentrating on sports shooting, but really want to do more portraiture..so I bought a small lighting kit (Alien Bees 2/lights/1 SB) and did a few test shots with a Canon 5D and 24-105 lens.
Keep in mind, these were test shots, mainly testing the lights...etc. So the kids weren't dressed, or really posed in any formal fashion.
I tried do something in Lightroom, couldn't figure out how to retouch. I exported over to CS3..but nothing I did seem to work. So here are the photos straight out of the camera JPEG.
I would like to see what some of you could do with these images, and then explain to me what and how you did it. Thanks
The last couple of years, I've been concentrating on sports shooting, but really want to do more portraiture..so I bought a small lighting kit (Alien Bees 2/lights/1 SB) and did a few test shots with a Canon 5D and 24-105 lens.
Keep in mind, these were test shots, mainly testing the lights...etc. So the kids weren't dressed, or really posed in any formal fashion.
I tried do something in Lightroom, couldn't figure out how to retouch. I exported over to CS3..but nothing I did seem to work. So here are the photos straight out of the camera JPEG.
I would like to see what some of you could do with these images, and then explain to me what and how you did it. Thanks