Night Time Nudes Critiques 18+

eminart

I tried a few shots tonight. I'm not sure how I feel about them. What do you guys think?

Wineman

Hello,

The 2 siluett's I don't like just because they are blurry on the edges, for me the importance of a siluette is its sharp edges.

The 3rd photo I find the background distracting, the white door in particular directs my eyes to that side (and this is bad, having a beautiful model in front and yet my eyes go elsewhere...).

The first one is great I like the soft light and the pose is good, but the simplicity implied is really good, nothing to distract from the figure. Well done!

Just my 2 cents...

Z.

cdub

yeah, I agree- I think you have some really neat ideas there, but watch your composition because each picture except the first one has something distracting in it - whether the door, or something else.

Good efforts and great ideas. Keep going!

Nikolai

I'm afraid I won't say anything new: good ideas , but the execution is snapshotty at best.
Adding some light may help

eminart

Thanks, guys. I agree with you. The first one is really the only one I like. As it turns out, my little bedroom is a terrible photography studio. To get the two shots on the bed, I had my tripod backed all the way in a corner and I was squeezed up against the wall beside it. Still, I had my widest lens zoomed all the way out to just barely get the shot framed. And those windows had a TINY amount of light coming in. My shutter times for all of them were almost a full minute (hence the blurred silhouettes).

Anyway, thanks for the critiques. It was a nearly full moon last night. I tried to get my wife to just shoot them outdoors, but for whatever reason she didn't want to pose nude in our backyard surrounded by other houses.

cdub

Hey I think it's great that you have such a willing participant.

I don't think your bedroom is a terrible studio, necessarily - you can compensate with some creative post-processing. Clone or crop out unwanted aspects of your photos, and work with lighting - of all sorts. What we see isn't always attributable to what you use. I've used christmas lights, colored foil on construction work lights, and desk lamps to create indirect lighting in my ghetto studios in the past...

Nikolai

FWIW, the "moonlight" pictures, like this:



are NOT taken with the actual moonlight

Impression and implementation are two different things...

Tim Kamppinen

Nikolai wrote:

FWIW, the "moonlight" pictures, like this:

are NOT taken with the actual moonlight

Impression and implementation are two different things...

Hey, mine are taken with actual moonlight:



Granted, it's just the rim; the main light is a camp fire.

Sorry, I couldn't resist....

cerpintor

I happen to like the 3rd one the most out of all of these, and the main reason for that is the blur and the snapshot feel that others have apparently disliked. I guess different people like different images for different reasons. Although I tend to be disappointed in blur or focus issues on my own shots, I like it on this.

The only thing I don't like about that one is the cropping. The top of the curtain is really distracting, I think it could be chopped right off.

BeamCatcher

And of course...
I HAD to be the odd one out...! *lol*

The first two are the big keepers, and I genuinely like number two best.

I can see how folks like first best, but I think the light breaks the hips a bit strange.

Number two works better in that respect, though perhaps good to tone down a bit on the upper left..?

The thing I REALLY like is... this is one of those shots which makes people think "I could have done that..!"

Yes... but you did not! ;-))

Kudos my friend!

Ivar :-)