Don Barnes April Fool posing symposium (10 images )

[CaptainTom]

A great teacher and mentor hosted a posing symposium on April Fools Day.

[Davidtxs]

great stuff tom I wish I could have made it, but I didnt get up till noon lol, see everyone on tuesday

[dlbdata]

Very nice lighting. Great pictures

[mobilezen]

The youngest son looks like dad, the rest look like mom. Looks like a good time.

[Debbi]

Very nice, Tom. Looks like you had a good time.

[keeper]

It was a great workshop, I learned a lot. Here are a couple of mine:

[Roy]

Well done Tom! I see you split time fairly equally with the 20D and 30D.

[CaptainTom]

Originally Posted by Roy

Well done Tom! I see you split time fairly equally with the 20D and 30D.

With so much going on, it helped to have a wide on one body and something closer on the other... I was happy with the performance of everything except myself...... brain errors abounded.

[Ronnie]

I had a great time...and thanks to Don for having us!
I still have a few to play with but, here are a few of what
I have so far

[Roy]

Nice ones Ronnie! Wish I could of been there to share in the learning.

[Joe_Lorenzini]

So far some great shots being shown here. Very encouraging to see this kind of quality!

Ok, here are mine... I was only present at the AM part of the session so I had access to two of the models...

Shot with the Fuji S5 Pro and a combination of Nikon 180/2.8, 28-70/2.8 and Lensbaby 2.0.

I processed these images to my liking (as I would any other studio image). Critiques are welcome!

Hope you don't mind Teddie, those eyes were just too good to not post:


Not sure about this image. I was trying to use her hair as a frame and isolate her beautiful eyes (plus we were working with reducing the pupils of a subject). I think I may have isolated her eye a little too much:


My error was that I didn't swap out the f/4 ring for the f/8 or f/11 ring so the shots I got were blown out. This is an example of when you get the focus point right:


The background, pose and setup was all Don's idea when he saw the new shirt our lovely model had put on. The man knows what works!


Fun stuff!!

_/oe

[CaptainTom]

In the eye isolation shot, is that one of the ones with the pin spot directed on her ??
I'd be interested to see if it had a substantial effect.. It looked like it was working, but the photos will tell the story.

Nice photos as always....

Teddie -- that one is a KEEPER !!!

[Joe_Lorenzini]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

In the eye isolation shot, is that one of the ones with the pin spot directed on her ??
I'd be interested to see if it had a substantial effect.. It looked like it was working, but the photos will tell the story.

Nice photos as always....

Teddie -- that one is a KEEPER !!!

Yeah, that's one of the ones where we were trying to get the pupil smaller. If you look at the other shots it is smaller, not by a whole lot but enough where you do get more eye color.

_/oe

[boxofrocks]

Here's a few. As I mentioned in the earlier thread, if you have any good ones of Katelyn, Please PM me--I'm sure she'd love to have them!

[CaptainTom]

Tom
I love the diamond ring. Nice touch, and looks absolutely real...