Lana

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C&C please.

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#6


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#9

angevin1

Poses are my "thing"...and your poses here are superb! Love them! #1 is tops! All of these , for me at least could be simple photos of this persons visage.. they are good and unique as well, with maybe one repeat.

Your lighting is my pref, so you'll have to find someone else to not like the lighting...well done~~ tom

What is it you do not like?

Dave Clee

I luv them all except for the last pose. Looks a little forced. Other than that very good stuff !!

Cheers

Dave

sweet caroline

Beautiful. I like this kind of lighting, too. I was going to try to list my favorites, but I keep shifting. Many good shots, nice poses, beautiful light, natural expressions. A lot to like.

Caroline

Nikolai

Emily, nice series,
I don't think they deserve fear-inducing 18+ moniker, since everything pretty much PG

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Nikolai wrote:

Emily, nice series,
I don't think they deserve fear-inducing 18+ moniker, since everything pretty much PG

I agree, but some people's definition of what's acceptable varies, so I'd rather err on the safe side.

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angevin1 wrote:

Poses are my "thing"...and your poses here are superb! Love them! #1 is tops! All of these , for me at least could be simple photos of this persons visage.. they are good and unique as well, with maybe one repeat.

Your lighting is my pref, so you'll have to find someone else to not like the lighting...well done~~ tom

What is it you do not like?

Thanks Tom. I actually was pretty pleased with these, but wanted to see how others viewed them and if there were any nit-picky flaws.

Greensquared

Thanks Dave and Caroline!

Darren Troy C

Fantastic! The last one does seem forced....but guess what....I think that's what actually HELPS this image! She looks a bit strained....and it works!

Really good series GS!

schmoo

Emily, it's always great to see new stuff from you!!

I like the pose and lighting best on #6. I think that it's a nice balance of each.

I always think that posing models is a little tricky, especially when you see things you maybe wanted to try after the session is over and they've gone home. But really nice job

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Thanks Idlewild and schmoo!

NeilL

Emily, there are three things which worry me about this set.

First, I find the cropping too cramped. Your lighting style suggests you were imagining something ethereal - airiness, luminosity - and I think the other ingredient should be space. However, you have cropped to contain the figure but not much of her ambiance. So to me, she looks boxed-in. Maybe you also wanted to give the shots some intimacy. If so, it is antagonistic I think to the ethereal idea.

Then, for me the difference in the materials of the draperies is distracting. The vertical one is comparatively coarse and stiff, while what she is sitting on is very soft and sheer. They do different things with the light. That they are both white only accentuates their differences. They conflict, for me. If the idea was to present the model in a setting suggesting a bedroom, then maybe something more bedroomy might have been better. Otherwise, something more theatrical, perhaps. For me, now, these draperies call attention to themselves because of their different qualities and because of not creating an effective ambiance for the subject, just a background.

The third worry I have is that the contrast and toning on the model is too heavy, I think. I can appreciate how you wanted to have the interplay of light and shadow, the mystery of ethereal light and secretive shadow. To my eye, the subject is to some extent a victim of that. I think the toning of #4 is the most successful, partly because she is able to make a statement of her own, extra to your chiaroscuro intentions.

Thanks for posting these. They helped me see some issues in this kind of photography.

Neil

loubell

Poses
The first photograph is spectacular!

Secondly I disagree with Neil (Sorry Neil) I find the use of different materials in the photograph very interesting indeed! It gives the photographs texture whereas without the use of different materials there wouldn't be a lot of texture to display.

In a series of expressing the sexuality of a woman without showing too much...you captured that essence. The shadow and contrast are perfect in #2 - It is not so much the contrast as it is to her natural expression. The last pose does seem a little forced, but it is also beautiful. The lighting in all of these is fantastic. I don't know if you used natural lighting from the window or not, but whatever you did really set the woman and the setting in a perfect sequence of beauty and tranquility.

System

#3 is my favorite, after that #6.

Personally I don't like the lighting in the rest, but that's clearly a preference issue since you've had some excellent photographers say that they like what you've done.

What did you use as your background? I like the texture it has.

loubell

Revisit
I keep coming back to look at these photographs you posted! I LOVE them! Again I had to comment and say great job. I can't say enough about your work... You are very talented with the camera.

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loubell wrote:

I keep coming back to look at these photographs you posted! I LOVE them! Again I had to comment and say great job. I can't say enough about your work... You are very talented with the camera.

Thank you so much! I still have several portraits from this shoot to work up. There never is enough time...

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MagicKiwi wrote:

#3 is my favorite, after that #6.

Personally I don't like the lighting in the rest, but that's clearly a preference issue since you've had some excellent photographers say that they like what you've done.

What did you use as your background? I like the texture it has.

Here's the setup:

Front door and 2 sheer (crinkled) curtains. Crinkles are obviously a little different between the two. Open the door and hang one curtain over it (backdrop). The other curtain is a really long swag, So I hang it in front of and behind the glass storm door, then continue to drap it over our large ottoman. Stick very talented model on it. There is no variance in the light...all natural and diffused.

Andy

#6 is really a beautiful pose and and photo

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Andy wrote:

#6 is really a beautiful pose and and photo

Thanks Andy, I think that's one of my favorites too.