Arianna

anonymouscuban

Just a quick portrait I did for her. One light and reflector.

angevin1

Subtle...and very nice!

Tim Kamppinen

Lovely portrait. Only suggestion would be to bring down the exposure on the shoulder. The white shirt draws the eye away from her face a bit. You could have flagged it off or feathered the light up. Or, a quick gradient mask in LR would take care of it.

Kinkajou

Just lovely. I always like the softness your images have. Really great style.

Mitchell

The lighting on her face is perfect. Nicely done. I agree that a bit of burning around the shoulder would enhance this portrait.

Icebear

Wow. So nice. White blouses are so hard to deal with in a low-key image aren't they.

zoomer

Pretty shot. Good job with the light. You captured a very natural looking smile from her. Very pretty young lady.


For me the angle is to much from above and from the side. Also she is slouching quite a bit.
Just a suggestion, crop just into the top of her head and take 1/3 of the shoulder off the bottom, then just a tiny bit off the left. Take off that white dot under her photo right eye, or at least tone it down.

It is fine as is, just some nits to give you something to play with .

divamum

This is beautiful Alex, and the light is indeed gorgeous (care to share a diagram, distances etc?)

I'd like to see a tad off the top - the black bg at the top seems redundant since the crop at the bottom runs the full width of the shot and fills the frame from the neck down.

Really nice!

anonymouscuban

Thanks all. This pretty young lady is big sister to Keanu, the newborn I posted the other day. In between shots of Keanu, Arianna sat down and ask if I could take a photo of her.

She was sitting on an ottoman style bench. I had my AB400 on a normal light stand, about 4 feet high and just outside the frame to her right, at about 45 degrees. The AB400 had a 43" umbrella in bounce position. My wife held a large 42" round reflector for fill. The center of the reflector was slightly below her eye level and position just slightly to camera right and within a foot or so of the subject. .

I agree on the suggestions for the crop. However, I left room all the way around because I don't know how her mother is going to mount it. Someone mentioned the slouching... what is it with kids and slouching. I immediately noticed the slouch and ask her to arch her back and that's the best I got. I also agree that white shirts suck.