Lorraine

[Bren25]

Portrait of my wife

[tommykelso]

Good lighting in this shot - real natural feel to it.

[bigbob]

Great photo again like the lighting.but is everyone doing portraits in landscape these days

[admin]

Hey Welcome Bren!

Good on you for  jumping in. I notoce that you have attached this image to your post...Which is fine.
BUT, to be in the running for a few votes and a smal prize you wil need to go to the Galleries section (top) menu, go this month's gallery and then upload your image again.

Doing it this way also automatically creates a new post topic in the board of the same name and bothpresents the image at full size and allows for comments.

[Bren25]

Thanks Mark,

I've re-uploaded the pic as per your instructions, can you let me know if I have done it correctly to enter the competition?

Cheers,

Bren

[admin]

All good Bren.
You will see it listed on the January theme board:

http://www.lightartforum.com/index.php/topic,1498.0.html

At this size you will see a bit of "noise" most likely created by using a high ISO setting (possibly an automatic setting?)
The only real way around this in a low light situation is a tripod so you can use a slower shuuter speed, a flash (counter-productive to the mood) or a bit of reflected light.
It is a nice compostition.

[Bren25]

Thanks for the tips Mark, I'm still getting the hang of all the settings on my new camera, and this a relatively old pic, appreciate the advice tho