Only one of Elena

Yuri Pautov

Any comments?




Spasibo,
Yuri

Scoupe

Great light. Nice and smooth. Riveting eyes, and I love her face framed in the black of the scarf her hair breaking that frame for a little drama. Great texture on the garment.

What would I do differently? Shoot, or crop, tighter. I like her face where you have it, in the upper right of the composition, but I'd loose half of the sweater on the bottom and half of the background on the left. That would leave those fantastic eyes just above the center line and have her face taking up almost 2/3 of frame as opposed to the less than 1/2 of frame it is now.

Doug

du8die

Yuri,

I'm always impressed and motivated by your work. You're not just trying to take a picture, you're trying to tell the story of your subject.

This is a wonderful capture. At first, there were two things that I was going to comment about, but the more I look at the image, the more I like the things that I originally didn't.

Thank you for posting, and inspiring so many on here.

roentarre

She has soo much maturity with that expression. Beautiful :ivar

Yuri Pautov

Scoupe wrote:

Great light. Nice and smooth. Riveting eyes, and I love her face framed in the black of the scarf her hair breaking that frame for a little drama. Great texture on the garment.

What would I do differently? Shoot, or crop, tighter. I like her face where you have it, in the upper right of the composition, but I'd loose half of the sweater on the bottom and half of the background on the left. That would leave those fantastic eyes just above the center line and have her face taking up almost 2/3 of frame as opposed to the less than 1/2 of frame it is now.

Doug

Thank you, Doug - of course I will try to use your kind advice. We ve made a lot of photos - I will share them later on.
Yuri

Yuri Pautov

du8die wrote:

Yuri,

I'm always impressed and motivated by your work. You're not just trying to take a picture, you're trying to tell the story of your subject.

This is a wonderful capture. At first, there were two things that I was going to comment about, but the more I look at the image, the more I like the things that I originally didn't.

Thank you for posting, and inspiring so many on here.

Thank you for your kindest words - its a pleasure for me to read them!
Yuri

Yuri Pautov

roentarre wrote:

She has soo much maturity with that expression. Beautiful :ivar

Spasibo, roentarre!
Yuri

grimace

roentarre wrote:

She has soo much maturity with that expression. Beautiful :ivar

I agree. Nice job. I really like the warm feeling of the light.

Swartzy

I love the capture Yuri.....the overpowering yellow is a drawback for me....just a tad too strong....not thinking it should be "technically" color corrected but lessened a bit that her eyes would stand out "telling the story". As it is now, her eyes are blending too much with the facial skin tone.

clemensphoto's

Yuri,

Great job as usuall!! I agree with Scoupe with cropping the sweater, but otherwise excellant work.