jbfilion

@batonrouge:
 
Thanks again for the feedbacks. It's so true that the family has a tendency to think "he's at it again", I must try even harder to convince them. I'm happy to learn that I'm not the only one who face this issue
 
While I understand you like to work with ambiant light, I'm having hard time to rely on it when shooting indoor, especially when it's dark outside. Are you using reflectors with regular/home tungsten lights only? It's true that Mum shot shows a bit of strong shadows, it was not my best setup I guess. But I definitely want to shoot more outside with natural light during summer! (Maybe with a really small fill-in with a flash ) I can't find pictures that you posted, you would like to share a link or some pictures so I can see your work?
 
I'll keep that 45deg tips in mind! Please feel free to edit the picture, it's all right!
Thanks!

Just finished this picture of my youngest, a sample of many pictures that I captured in a shoot yesterday. I'm trying to keep the colors a bit less satured than I'm used too, what do you think?
 
I used a neutral gray background that I flashed with colored gel to add some colors. Shot with the 56mm @ f2.2
 

 

@batonrouge: Thanks again for the feedback. I guess you put your finger on my weakness, directing people toward a more dynamic pose. I feel like this is the most difficult part of portraiture work and I always admire / wonder how some others manage to do it. This is so different from working with landscapes I'm taking all the tips you into consideration.
 
Here is a mix of recent shots of my own family:
 
XF 35mm f1.4 (Using a single flash on the left side)

 
XF 35mm f.14 (Lit by the oven light)

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56mm
 
 

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56
 

Moving on with 2 family pictures that I took on last December, but I only had the chance to edit these recently. I used the 56mm for these one. Looking back at them, I used a very different approach for skin tone / saturations. 
 

Thanks batonrouge for your comments. It's nice that you suggest to move back from the subject, most of my recent work is further back from the subject(s). About location, I also started to move more and visit people on their working location. While it's true that it help provides a different setup from the studio, I must admit that it's much harder to cope on-the-fly with lightning and background I must think much faster in these situations! Anyway, thank you so much for your feedbacks!
 
I'll start with a very recent picture that is not published yet. I'm working for a technological business where most of the staff are men, mostly because there are a lot more men programmers applying for the jobs. For the upcoming International Women's Day, we want to highlight/feature the women working with us and encourage more to apply for positions. I came up with this image concept to represent the women working with us. I must admit that it's not my best work so far from a technical standpoint, but it was very nice to explore from a conceptual standpoint.
 
(I used the 27mm @ f8, with 3 small flash, unfortunately balanced with ambiant lightning. I feel like the 27mm let me down on this one, and my first intention was to kill ambiant light, but I had not enough power to use a small aperture and get enough depth of field.)
 

 
 
 

My shutter speed dial is set at 250x, I only don't want the real/front wheel to mess up with the shutter speed. 

@batonrouge: Thanks again for the feedback. I guess you put your finger on my weakness, directing people toward a more dynamic pose. I feel like this is the most difficult part of portraiture work and I always admire / wonder how some others manage to do it. This is so different from working with landscapes I'm taking all the tips you into consideration.
 
Here is a mix of recent shots of my own family:
 
XF 35mm f1.4 (Using a single flash on the left side)

 
XF 35mm f.14 (Lit by the oven light)

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56mm
 
 

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56
 

@batonrouge: Thanks again for the feedback. I guess you put your finger on my weakness, directing people toward a more dynamic pose. I feel like this is the most difficult part of portraiture work and I always admire / wonder how some others manage to do it. This is so different from working with landscapes I'm taking all the tips you into consideration.
 
Here is a mix of recent shots of my own family:
 
XF 35mm f1.4 (Using a single flash on the left side)

 
XF 35mm f.14 (Lit by the oven light)

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56mm
 
 

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56
 

@batonrouge: Thanks again for the feedback. I guess you put your finger on my weakness, directing people toward a more dynamic pose. I feel like this is the most difficult part of portraiture work and I always admire / wonder how some others manage to do it. This is so different from working with landscapes I'm taking all the tips you into consideration.
 
Here is a mix of recent shots of my own family:
 
XF 35mm f1.4 (Using a single flash on the left side)

 
XF 35mm f.14 (Lit by the oven light)

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56mm
 
 

 
XF 56mm
 

 
XF 56
 

Thanks batonrouge for your comments. It's nice that you suggest to move back from the subject, most of my recent work is further back from the subject(s). About location, I also started to move more and visit people on their working location. While it's true that it help provides a different setup from the studio, I must admit that it's much harder to cope on-the-fly with lightning and background I must think much faster in these situations! Anyway, thank you so much for your feedbacks!
 
I'll start with a very recent picture that is not published yet. I'm working for a technological business where most of the staff are men, mostly because there are a lot more men programmers applying for the jobs. For the upcoming International Women's Day, we want to highlight/feature the women working with us and encourage more to apply for positions. I came up with this image concept to represent the women working with us. I must admit that it's not my best work so far from a technical standpoint, but it was very nice to explore from a conceptual standpoint.
 
(I used the 27mm @ f8, with 3 small flash, unfortunately balanced with ambiant lightning. I feel like the 27mm let me down on this one, and my first intention was to kill ambiant light, but I had not enough power to use a small aperture and get enough depth of field.)
 

 
 
 

Hi everyone,
 
This is my first post here, but I've been looking at this forum and Fujirumors for a while now. I'm a 32 years old enthusiast photographer from Canada. I learned photography almost 20 years ago with film, I used to photograph my skateboarder and snowboarder friends using a Minolta camera when I was a teenager. Then like most of you, I switched to digital as young adult, almost 10 years ago. I used to photograph a lot of travelling/landscape pictures prior to to having kids. After having my first child, I felt like I had less opportunity to travel, and my camera remained on the shelf for almost 2 years (beside baby pictures). I heard about the X-T1 one day, and I decided to make the jump and buy a new camera.
 
Of course, I felt in love with the system. Although I was planning to work on landscapes again, the camera and family context drove me toward portraiture. Like all father & photographer, I started with picture of my own kids, then I tried to expend my work to family, friends, and mostly co-workers. One thing leading to another, I did more and more work for the business I'm working for. While I can't say I'm a professional photographer, I have many projects going on at work (like books), and a portion of my paid time is spent on photography. I must admit that I really happy about it!
 
I'm happy with what I managed to learn in the last 2 years of portraiture, but I'm really starving for more feedbacks from photographers. Social networks are nice for sharing picture, but "Likes" is not what I'm looking for at this point. I don't care if it's negative criticism, as long as it's respectful.  I don't know if this is a common practice, but I'm thinking about using this single topic to share some of my recent work and get feedbacks.
 
Thanks in advance to everyone who will give me feedbacks.
 
I'll share recent pictures as soon as this first post is approved, in the meantime you can check my work on my website and my 2016 portrait overview:
http://www.jbfilion.com
http://jbfilion.com/2016.html