Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70mm — ¹/160 sec, f/8, ISO 200 — image data
Hello There!
A bit of wide-angle and wide-eyed distortion makes for an “interesting” portrait?
photo by Paul Barr
processing by me

I've been doing a lot of portraiture practice lately, so I finally made a portraiture-practice category on my blog. This post is likely the last for a while, a few shots from last week with Paul Barr and Stéphane Barbery.

上は私、カメラと一寸近くすきるし、目は開けすぎ。結果は面白いだと思いますが、一寸気持ち悪いかもしれない。どう思いますか。以下の写真と比べる。

The photos on this post of me, such as the one above, were taken by Paul Barr, and post processed by me (mostly with Paul looking over my shoulder).

I think the one above has some interesting (yet perhaps disconcerting) character, for a couple of reasons. First there's the distortion caused by the close proximity of the lens to the subject. Playing around in Lightroom, I was able to easily adjust the distortion away using Lightroom's manual lens-correction tools, but the result was less interesting/comical, so it's the original that I'm presenting here.

Another thing is the lighting. We were trying our hand at some artificial lighting, a flash unit to camera right. In this case, iris close to the light really caught/reflects the light, so it looks very different from the other iris; the result lends a bit of disconcernment without the viewer necessarily noticing why (though now that I've mentioned it, you'll not be able to not see it. 🙂 )

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70mm — ¹/160 sec, f/8, ISO 200 — image data
A Bit Further Away
same lens from a more reasonable distance
photo by Paul Barr

In the end we just didn't feel comfortable with the flash, so moved to an area with a rice-paper-covered window, which provided rich, smooth light...

Nikon D4 + 85mm f/1.8 — ¹/250 sec, f/4, ISO 12800 — image data
photo by Paul Barr

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm — ¹/160 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — image data
photo by Paul Barr

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm — ¹/160 sec, f/7.1, ISO 12800 — image data
photo by Paul Barr

I wanted to include at least one color shot, but it seems downright bland compared to the grittier B&W treatment that seems to suit these shots.

Nikon D4 + 85mm f/1.8 — ¹/200 sec, f/4, ISO 12800 — image data
photo by Paul Barr

I tried a few of Paul...

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — ¹/125 sec, f/1.4, ISO 2000 — image data

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — ¹/125 sec, f/1.4, ISO 4000 — image data

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — ¹/125 sec, f/1.4, ISO 3200 — image data

Stéphane put up a couple of shots of me he took, one I like, and one that I don't quite care for. Paul's opinion of them was the opposite of mine, so who knows....