Abdullah AL-Naser
with his shadow
a self-shot taken just outside the Health Sciences Center building at West Virginia University. I saw this place many times while I was in the school hours. I went there on a weekend day to do some practice with natural and flash light. I believe that contrast of colors and light among the image's parts play an important role in the quality. You see the background is darker than the model, I used umbrella to lighten my self. I used long focal length to decrease the depth of field, so the background get blurry. Now the subject is more isolated and defined due to light contrast and blurring. I don't necessarily adjust contrast during editing, because this might damage quality or darken the image. Generally portraits need light for the subject, I enhance increase lightness in RAW processor and Photoshop without touching the contrast. Tones have dramatic touches also, I like to edit them carefully. The whites tend to be bluish, I balance that out by making them reddish. For the overall lightness, I put cyan tint so with slight desaturation, it is the look I am seeing now in advertisements.
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L
Flash light fired from a Speedlite 580EX thru an umbrella on camera right.
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with his shadow
a self-shot taken just outside the Health Sciences Center building at West Virginia University. I saw this place many times while I was in the school hours. I went there on a weekend day to do some practice with natural and flash light. I believe that contrast of colors and light among the image's parts play an important role in the quality. You see the background is darker than the model, I used umbrella to lighten my self. I used long focal length to decrease the depth of field, so the background get blurry. Now the subject is more isolated and defined due to light contrast and blurring. I don't necessarily adjust contrast during editing, because this might damage quality or darken the image. Generally portraits need light for the subject, I enhance increase lightness in RAW processor and Photoshop without touching the contrast. Tones have dramatic touches also, I like to edit them carefully. The whites tend to be bluish, I balance that out by making them reddish. For the overall lightness, I put cyan tint so with slight desaturation, it is the look I am seeing now in advertisements.
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L
Flash light fired from a Speedlite 580EX thru an umbrella on camera right.
Better details: