Emma B at Whitby (no not that Emma b)

Substantially better than 'that' Emma B.

ha ha ...awww Emma Bunton is quite pretty.

OK not as stunning as this emma - I just love her deep , piercing eyes.

she's a nice bubbly lady too.

I have been trying to think of a profound remark to say about the stonework, but something keeps drawing my attention away from it.

Happy New Year!

Martin

as I say she does have fab eyes ..... I'm presuming that's what you meant

happy new year to you too

Yes, fascinating eyes, and .... Well, even I was young once

Martin

ahhh I see - yes her lips are beautiful too and a nice shade of lipstick too

I've been to the Goths Festival at Whitby several times with other members of this forum and have also photographed some stunning girls there. I regret I've yet to meet this Emma B, she is up there with the best of them. Great pics.
David

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thank you

Would love to know how to take stunning portraits like that, Mike.

Please keep it simple!

surprisingly easy to be honest - no magic, no particular technique.

main thing I always try to do is ensure I focus on the eyes.

Try get the exposure as correct as I can in camera and well that's it really.

The camera , lens and subject do the rest

Thanks for the kind feed back

I also keep post processing to a minimal - I like things to look natural and as I say try and get as much right in camera.

I shoot RAW and then boost vibrance and saturation to around +11
I tick lens correction and select the lens if needed
and I now manually slide colour temp to a level that I like the look of - used to play around with preset white balance options but one day tried just manually moving it and found I preferred this as none of the preset ones pleased me.

To be honest I'm still a real noob on portraiture/people shots:

I have two whitby goth events
one big steampunk event
one small steampunk event
a couple of war re-enactment/1940's weekends

that is pretty much the full extent of my people shooting.

Before I started doing it I didn't think shooting people would interest me but have found that it does

Looking back my response could be interpretied as arrogant so in colder light of day/on reflection I think my reply would be more:

Very kind and overly generous of you I feel Jean-claude, I would not have thought it stunning. I am very happy with it mind.

all the books etc major on how imnportant it is to get the eyes pin sharp.

Hmmm - nice shots of a nice model

Thank you, Mike, for your helpful response.

I used the adjective 'stunning' from the perspective of an inexperienced and somewhat technologically-challenged person who does not shoot raw (not in a rush to do so!) and finding photography a rather steep learning curve.

As far as I am concerned, you should, indeed, be very pleased with it, regardless of your level of expertise.

Anyhow, which camera and lens did you use as a matter of interest? Was it handheld or 'tripodded' ?