Portrait Session, Part 2

These are the last three images from my portrait session with a friend and his family at Memorial Park in Houston on Saturday. Technical issues aside, these three are my favorites from the shoot because to me they all have a greater emotional impact than the more classical portraits posted yesterday. As usual, any comments or suggestions for improvement would be greatly appreciated. :-)

Camera and lens for all three shots are the same as yesterday: Canon 40D and Canon 17-55mm f/2.8

Title: "Swing Time"


Title: "Family Plus Dog"


Shot data: 1/200s f/9.0 at 28.0mm iso320

Title: "The Little Guy"


Shot data: 1/100s f/4.5 at 55.0mm iso320

Memorial Park Portrait Session

Saturday I had the opportunity to photograph a friend I used to work with and his family. We had a 45 minute session beginning at 6:30PM in Memorial Park in Houston. This was my first attempt at trying to do this and, predictably, I made a lot of mistakes which resulted in a pretty low success rate. I only ended up with six shots from the session that I consider "keepers". This is the first three of them and I would really appreciate your feed back about how you think I did and how I might have done better. All of the shots were taken with my Canon 40D and Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 zoom and using a homemade beauty dish off camera for fill light early early in the shoot and for the key light as it got later in the evening.

Title: "The Family"


Shot data: 1/25s f/5.0 at 45.0mm iso200

Title: "Her"


Shot data: 1/80s f/4.5 at 55.0mm iso200

Title: "Him"


Shot data: 1/50s f/4.5 at 55.0mm iso200