Katie with K20D and 50mm FA

She was working that camera




Obligatory fishing for comments and critique, all welcome here and on flickr.

50mm is really an awesome lens. I am too poor at the moment to buy anything else so it's my fav.

I like Katie's facial expression but her arm and the background spoil the shot for me, perhaps a close crop around her head would be better.

Thanks Dave.

I got one of these

Those are great shot Dave, do you do it for a living?

Couple of really nice pictures you have there, i agree the arm spoils it a little in the first but not too much.
The 2nd you seem to have focussed on the fingers and shoulder but it doesnt take much from the image.

Catch lights in her eyes in the first are really good as is the Hair Lighting.

@Anvh: I don't do this living just yet. What I'm trying to get to is a good portfolio and than possibly try and get some paid work.

@Craig thanks for comments. I did think about making that arm small through use of photoshop but I voted against it as I wanted to keep it as natural as possible, model was getting hi-res shots from me so if she wants to modify them she can.

On second photo it was probably 6.7 aperture that kept her face and hands in focus, I focused on her nose in that case, location was really dark. aperture of 6.7 makes it not so obvious.

If you take many more images like these you'll not be poor for much longer. Well done.