Portraits

I got lots of great portraits of my roommates this week. They are a very fun-loving group of girls and so some of the portraits are a little silly, but I think they still turned out nice and they do a good job of showing their personalities.

The first image is a side composition. I used a large aperture to blur the background. The only edits I made in Photoshop was to crop and widen the image a little, take out a few small blemishes and a random guy in the background. The only edits I made to the second image was to apply a slight Gaussian blur in Photoshop because the background was clearer than I would have liked. I lightened images 3-6 and took out a few blemishes, but otherwise they are unchanged. I brightened the eyes and teeth and took out a few blemishes for the 7th image, and did a color match on the eighth using Photoshop. I tried a color replacement on the ninth, blurring the pink color around her hair so that it looked a bit more natural.

1. Side Composition Portrait

2. Head and Shoulders Portrait

3. Full Body Portrait

4. Interacting Portrait

5. Second Interacting Portrait

6. Natural Environment Portrait (Mikaylee is going to be a teacher, so this is of her teaching in a classroom)

7. Portrait Touch-ups (Blemish and dodge edits)

8. Color Match Portrait

9. Color replacement Portrait