Love a cute gal with a hoodie.

Hackbone · January 8, 2010

This particular gal had a georgous complesion. Peaches and cream really describes it. Also a great big dress.

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lilmomma · January 8, 2010

oooh very pretty! 1 and 2 are my favorites! nice work!

Mitchell · January 8, 2010

Wow, that's a big dress.

I really like the tones in #1, but she's just so far away to fit that entire dress in the frame that the photo suffers.

#2 is excellent. I love the white fabric with the white backdrop.

Wil Davis · January 8, 2010

Very pretty girl!

#1 is great, but I dunno about the vignetting; I think I'd have brought the back wall up just a teeny bit; as shown it looks pretty gloomy behind her, although her head is pretty well modeled. As shown, she's totally overwhelmed by the magnificence of the dress; could do a close-up of her head and shoulders to show off her complexion.

#2 Vast white! (puts on shades…) Is her complexion really that smooth - as is, it looks a bit too good to be true! Her left (camera-right) dimple looks slightly odd, and her lips aren't in keeping with the silky look of the rest of her face. Nice, but you've lost the edge of her furry hood, and it seems that there's nothing in the left third of the frame; You could convert to portrait by cropping the left third of the frame, and it would look better (IMNSHO), although you could use the space for copy as is…

#3 nice, but I think I prefer the expression in #2 (looking at #3 again… …so what's with the black thumb?

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Hey, thanks for sharing - quite the looker!

- Wil

Hackbone · January 8, 2010

Thanks all. Wil, I did just a tad of work on her complexion but she is that gorgeous. As for the comp I have a skewed outlook on life.

Llywellyn · January 8, 2010

#1 is just gorgeous! There's something so classic about it.

adbsgicom · January 8, 2010

Charles, love the classic look of the first, and she does the hood-holding thing so very well in #2. Third one doesn't hold a candle to #2; I think she washes out too much and her thumb is somewhat distracting in holding the hood.

Hackbone · January 8, 2010

adbsgicom wrote:

Charles, love the classic look of the first, and she does the hood-holding thing so very well in #2. Third one doesn't hold a candle to #2; I think she washes out too much and her thumb is somewhat distracting in holding the hood.

Thanks Andrew. I used to worry alot about blowing out the highlights but it seems that the only people who care are photographers! I started to like the look and the kids go gaga over it so I'm more happier with the money earned. For me it was something that began to grow on me.

pathfinder · January 8, 2010

I really love #2 and #3.

Yes, some highlights are fried, but so what! The detail in the important areas of the image, her face, are just fine; and by not allocating all those grey steps to the detail in the hood, but instead to her face, the image is nicely rendered, thank you! For me, anyway.

She looks a bit slumped over in #1, and she is too small in the image for my taste.

D'Buggs · January 8, 2010

Nice work, HB!

- I think 1 would do better with a traditional 8x10 crop (maybe even a square), there's (IMO) too much dead space in it. This photo does have a *nice* feeling though.

- woot-woot for 2!!
A HK master-piece.

adbsgicom · January 8, 2010

Hackbone wrote:

I started to like the look and the kids go gaga over it so I'm more happier with the money earned. For me it was something that began to grow on me.

0xffffff is the new color of money....

joshhuntnm · January 8, 2010

the eyes in #2 are amazing!

ToTaLKaRNaGe · January 8, 2010

Forgive my ignorance i am still new to photography. But what is needed to get such an angelic setting as in photo #2. I enjoy looking at pictures with such an over abundance of white glow from behind the subject

Hackbone · January 8, 2010

ToTaLKaRNaGe wrote:

Forgive my ignorance i am still new to photography. But what is needed to get such an angelic setting as in photo #2. I enjoy looking at pictures with such an over abundance of white glow from behind the subject

The first image is straight out of the camera with adjustments made with a raw file program called Capture 1. Lit the bkg with two softboxes and a large softbox on the subject. Did alittle bit of skin softening and some level and curves adjusting.

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