Beauty Portraits: Nan

Zeckson

NeilL wrote:

Hi Zeckson! I very much like both the sets you have posted. Your giving the background/environment an equally important role as the model in 'telling' each picture is something I like very much in people photography, as I said a long time ago. You show a feel for that kind of thing.

If I were to make a couple of suggestions (and you should know that I am at ground level in all aspects of photography) they would be:

- to use more light sources on your model. In some of these the face, and sometimes arms and hands, are nicely lit, but the parts in shadow can look unattractive (the neck in #4 and decolletage in #9, for example). Good use of secondary lighting could result in more even lighting quality across the model. Especially critical in your photos since one of your aesthetic priorities is to give us delight in the tonal quality of the model's skin.

- allow the model to move more freely, rather than to always strike a static pose for the camera. I can imgine the beauty of your models in motion. It is hinted at in their frozen poses. So to capture their elegance and grace (and sexiness) out of the cage.

Thanks for the pleasure of seeing these.

Neil

Hello Neil, that is some comment! One of the top comments I received on my posts! I really love reading them! Thanks for the suggestions! I totally agree with what you had written on the lighting. For these few images that I posted, I am not wanting to achieve even lighting throughout. I wanted to include shadows into the images and thus I deployed these lighting setups.

I used to shoot lots of even lighting portraits before I joined Digital Grin Photography Forum. I got tired of those and I wanted to try something else, something different. I am going to step into the unknown (mostly people will deem them as incorrect or unacceptable because those were not what they usually see or do and were not present in their comfort zones). I am forcing myself to think out of the box, away from the normal conventional ways and see what I will get. Still experimenting...

I like about the idea of motion capturing in portrait photography... That's something I have not fully ventured but I did try a little (in the next upcoming photo posts in a new thread). Do stay tune for my next thread coming soon, Neil. I hope to get some ideas from you after seeing my next set.

DavidTO

Zackson, when embedding your photos you can put more than one in each post, and this is much preferred for viewing on dgrin. If you need any help (although it look like you've got embedding images down pretty well), you can use the tutorial linked in my signature.

mayassa

I liked al your shots, great series...

speedsk8r

Your comps are the bomb,the mood is just right 4 these photo's very nice.

Zeckson

DavidTO wrote:

Zackson, when embedding your photos you can put more than one in each post, and this is much preferred for viewing on dgrin. If you need any help (although it look like you've got embedding images down pretty well), you can use the tutorial linked in my signature.

Okie dokie... Will do that in the next thread.

Zeckson

mayassa wrote:

I liked al your shots, great series...

Thanks Mayassa.

Zeckson

speedsk8r wrote:

Your comps are the bomb,the mood is just right 4 these photo's very nice.

Thanks Speedsk8r.

Chrissiebeez_NL

beautifull work! lovely expressions!

Zeckson

Chrissiebeez_NL wrote:

beautifull work! lovely expressions!

Thanks Chrissiebeez_NL