Irina: Top Ten

Nikolai

These are from last Sunday, finally got my paws on them today..

1. Meet Irina:



2. She likes to play with her smartphone:



3. She looks very cool in her jacket:



4. And even more so int her hat:



As a second part of the shoot she slipped into something more comfortable...:wink

5. Pink 1:



6. Pink 2:



7. Pink 3:



8. Blue 1:



9. Blue 2:



10. Blue 3:



Enjoy! C&C is welcome!

Frog Lady

hey Nik!

you've got some great photo's in this set (as usual). But I'm going to take a moment to point out some thing that, IMHO, detract from the final product. While I am generally wow'ed by what you do, and could, in no way, replicate it, I hope some of the things I'm going to point out will help give you things to think about in the future...

In general, I really like the way you use your fabric to set off the bkgd. You use it to excellent results in #1.

I love the glamour look in #3 - you got it spot on there.

For the pink series, her lipstick is off. It is too bright a pink and your fabric has too much orange (peach) in it and I feel the two colors clash. A more natural or peach color lip color might have really worked well. Also, in the first of that series, it comes off as implied nude, but the hint of jeans jsut below her left arm might be best cloned out to complete that illusion.

I generally like the blue series, but, as a female, I do notice other aspects of your model that some of your male viewers might miss I think Irina's hair is pulled back too severely here in general. For the most part, it works ok in the 1st and 2nd blue shots, but in the 3rd, the way it looks on her right is particularly unflattering to her.

and on a side note, while you don't have any of your typical ladder shots here, I've always groaned when you show them with the wheels. For some reason, that always particularly bothers me. I don't know if it comes across too industrial for your glamour shots or what, but I really think that if you switched out that step ladder for one that doesn't have the wheels on one side, it would come across that much stronger!

so, my two cents, fwiw.

cheers,

C.

Nikolai

Frog Lady wrote:

hey Nik!

you've got some great photo's in this set (as usual). But I'm going to take a moment to point out some thing that, IMHO, detract from the final product. While I am generally wow'ed by what you do, and could, in no way, replicate it, I hope some of the things I'm going to point out will help give you things to think about in the future...

In general, I really like the way you use your fabric to set off the bkgd. You use it to excellent results in #1.

I love the glamour look in #3 - you got it spot on there.

For the pink series, her lipstick is off. It is too bright a pink and your fabric has too much orange (peach) in it and I feel the two colors clash. A more natural or peach color lip color might have really worked well. Also, in the first of that series, it comes off as implied nude, but the hint of jeans jsut below her left arm might be best cloned out to complete that illusion.

I generally like the blue series, but, as a female, I do notice other aspects of your model that some of your male viewers might miss I think Irina's hair is pulled back too severely here in general. For the most part, it works ok in the 1st and 2nd blue shots, but in the 3rd, the way it looks on her right is particularly unflattering to her.

and on a side note, while you don't have any of your typical ladder shots here, I've always groaned when you show them with the wheels. For some reason, that always particularly bothers me. I don't know if it comes across too industrial for your glamour shots or what, but I really think that if you switched out that step ladder for one that doesn't have the wheels on one side, it would come across that much stronger!

so, my two cents, fwiw.

cheers,

C.

Thank you Colleen, appreciate the feedback!
Wheels on the ladder, huh? lol... I have a bigger one w/o them, but it's wooden, kinda creates some Home Depot look-and-feel, so I don't use it much! And I guess I can take off the wheel from this one, at least temporarily...:D

As to the last one: while I agree that her hair may be in a less flattering shape, it also brings a certain "Andelina Jolie in Beowolf" kinda look, so I let it slip in:-). And you're correct, I'm 100% male, hence my biases
Cheers!

dogwood

Holy cow! These are great, Nik! Really, really nice.

I'm not too crazy about #4 -- just doesn't have the impact of the others. And the first two are nice except the backdrop.

I also might cut the series down to five or six images.

But jeez -- you've really nailed your lighting and your models are fantastic lately.

Nikolai

dogwood wrote:

Holy cow! These are great, Nik! Really, really nice.

I'm not too crazy about #4 -- just doesn't have the impact of the others. And the first two are nice except the backdrop.

I also might cut the series down to five or six images.

But jeez -- you've really nailed your lighting and your models are fantastic lately.

Thanks Pete!
If all plays out as I have planned, you gonna love the next few weeks :-)

evoryware

Love 5, 8, 9, 10!
Nice!

Nikolai

evoryware wrote:

Love 5, 8, 9, 10!
Nice!

Thanks Damon!

Swartzy

She's beautiful Nik and you captured her well. I love 3 & 4. Sweet lighting with that "look" of excellence. Way to be!

Nikolai

Swartzy wrote:

She's beautiful Nik and you captured her well. I love 3 & 4. Sweet lighting with that "look" of excellence. Way to be!

Thanks David!