Here is one added bonus to have a Maven come stay with you for the Holidays….impromptu portrait session! I’m a big believer that one of the best gifts you can give anyone is a good portrait, because if it is decent they will keep it and they, as well as their family and friends will look at it for the rest of their lives. I used to do free shoots every Sunday and it is something I would like to get back to doing….just for the fun of it! Here are the rest of yesterdays images:
So what are you doing memorial day weekend? I have an empty room. (that’s the next holiday, right?)
With all due respect, most of these portrait photos seem to me to be over-exposed and rather ‘washed-out’.
Best wishes!
@Tony- I strongly believe that was the look Michael was was looking for!!!
Ive seen this before- some monitors will also make them pics even more "overexposed" than what a print will look like if you aren’t looking at it from the right angle. On my end, the only image that is overexposed is the 4th image, on his chin, everything else I am seeing has detail.
I do like to push it to the edge of overexposure- weird thing is, these pics look completely different on facebook and my iphone. Im wondering how badly the browser effects images…
Those are cut kids. Thanks for taking the pics Mike.
Browsers make a huge difference. I have 2 the exact make, model and run number of a very good brand and even so I was so amazed at the difference side by side. I am religious about calibration… It’s done before I sit down each and every time I edit. One monitor seems to gradually become brighter over time while the other stays more constant. So the constant one (right) is my Photoshop monitor and the naughty one (left) is my Bridge/Internt monitor.
As a whole these pictures are not overexposed but there is a very strong contrast. Hm… I know areas can be overexposed but as a rule can an image be called overexposed If there is a healthy balance in the contrast? It seems like the "glass half full," because the next person could say the image was underexposed in other areas. I will always favor more contrast. I need to go answer my own Q now.