AHEM, meet lindsay

erson83

I had a photo shoot with this young lady, and for the first time I feel great about a shot on here. That being said, I'm most likely wrong. Please, let me know what you think.

Moogle Pepper

The bright light on her chest is attractively distracting.

I am not too sure about the pose, either. hmmmm..

Darren Troy C

Boy, she deserves great light, that's for sure! This seems really hot (no pun intended ) and slightly soft. That being said, I like the set-up pose. However, I would have cleared the clutter out somehow w/ a slighlty different camera angle and some good composition/crop work. Keep at it, she's a pleasing subject to shoot, I imagine.

erson83

Idlewild wrote:

Boy, she deserves great light, that's for sure! This seems really hot (no pun intended ) and slightly soft. That being said, I like the set-up pose. However, I would have cleared the clutter out somehow w/ a slighlty different camera angle and some good composition/crop work. Keep at it, she's a pleasing subject to shoot, I imagine.

Hoestly, everything I post here looks fuzzy. I have to put the quality at about half of what it really is to maintain a file that is large enough to view, put small enough to let me pass when I upload from my J-peg. As for the hot light, i was actually trying to do that, I wanted her bathed in it sort of speak. I may have did that a touch much-but it is sharp as a tack viewed originally.

erson83

Idlewild wrote:

Boy, she deserves great light, that's for sure! This seems really hot (no pun intended ) and slightly soft. That being said, I like the set-up pose. However, I would have cleared the clutter out somehow w/ a slighlty different camera angle and some good composition/crop work. Keep at it, she's a pleasing subject to shoot, I imagine.

I have three different crops of this same shot...here's another, whatcha think?

Nikolai

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• pretty model
• great environment

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• lighting is waaaaay too hot on the chest area
• nuclear skin (WB!)
• image is very soft
• the pose, while intended to be appealing and sexy, looks very unnatural, model seems to be very tense
• wide angle lens almost never flatters the female model unless used on specifically weird angles
• very top of the image (with the pier base) needs to be cropped out

dogwood

Nikolai wrote:

+

• pretty model
• great environment

-

• lighting is waaaaay too hot on the chest area
• nuclear skin (WB!)
• image is very soft
• the pose, while intended to be appealing and sexy, looks very unnatural, model seems to be very tense
• wide angle lens almost never faltters the female model unless used on specifically weird angles
• very top of the image (with the pier base) needs to be cropped out

evoryware

the picture is making my back hurt. More of her and less distracting background would have worked well IMO.

searching the soul

helpful hints
I would be careful on any crop that dismembers someone . I would personally not crop off her hands .

Scott_Quier

erson83 wrote:

Hoestly, everything I post here looks fuzzy. I have to put the quality at about half of what it really is to maintain a file that is large enough to view, put small enough to let me pass when I upload from my J-peg. As for the hot light, i was actually trying to do that, I wanted her bathed in it sort of speak. I may have did that a touch much-but it is sharp as a tack viewed originally.

The softness of the image may be the result of the compression that attached images suffer during the posting process. A much better way to include images is to host them somewhere and embed image links in your posts - see this tute for a SmugMug centric way to do it. You can host anywhere, just surround the URL to the photo with the "img" and "/img" tags as indicated below:

[*img]http://host/filename.jpg[*/img]

The "*" character is needed here to cause the code to show, you need to make sure you don't include it in your posting code.

As for the first photo - I have to agree with comments from Nik on all counts.