1st Senior Shoot

Spydawebb

I did my first Senior shoot recently. I ran into some challenges in that because she is on the heavy side, she only wanted basic head and shoulders type shots. She also decided the day of the shoot that she didn't want to do pics at her church and not at the park that we originally decided on.

Let me know what you think, and what I could have done differently.

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b08rsa

Shot #3 looked the best to me.

Ron A.

junglejim

#2
I like the expression of #2 best by far. I'm not sure how senior portraitish it comes across but it is the picture I would keep of my kid.

Qarik

overall better then average for sure. I think the vignetting is over done in the 1st shot and teh last shot is somewhat soft. I think #2 is th best out of the bunch

Spydawebb

Thanks all for the comments. I think #3 looks soft because of me. She has quite a bit of acne, and I was trying to lessen it by applying a Gaussian blur, but it does look like I went a little too far.

Any suggestions on how best to tackle this type of problem?

LivingLarge

Looks great, your exposure is very close to perfect. Most importantly, your subject appears to be comfortable with you. This is VERY important. Always allow for some change in setting to help her feel better.

As a gentle reminder, remember to "short light" almost all females and especially heavy set females. Looks like you were working with natural light so try to place subject so that main source comes across her face instead of directly into her face or chest. The more the light is feathered across her face, the slimmer she will appear. Remember to turn her body away from light, to tilt her head and get her to smile:D

Photosbychuck

Nice Set

My favs are #2 & #3.

Thanks for posting
Chuck

joshhuntnm

this is just a taste issue, but if you are desaturating, I like it all the way to about where #3 is or not at all. #1 just looks somewhere in between which just looks washed out to me.

ONe thing you did well as get a variety of expressions. smiles are nice; variety is better.

#4 (by the way, it would help if the pics were numbered) seems a little flashy to me. the light is similar to #2, but, I don't know, #2 looks better.

Spydawebb

Thanks everyone for the comments. Pics are now numbered. I will definitely keep all these great suggestions in mind in the future.

Ed911

Spydawebb wrote:

Thanks everyone for the comments. Pics are now numbered. I will definitely keep all these great suggestions in mind in the future.

I'm liking number one...just something about her face and your capture. Very nice work.

Thanks for sharing.

Spydawebb

Thanks Ed. I appreciate the comment.