Nadia (7 img)

Yuri Pautov · October 31, 2007

If you are not tired of portraits - some with long shadows, eyelashes, legs...
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Spasibo,
Yuri

1pocket · November 1, 2007

These seem to have been shot in a different kind of background setting from most of your shoots. I get the sense that you may have felt a little out of your element? The first one is my favorite -- it shows her eyes, and there is a little better modeling of the light on her face, in balance with the background.

You usually display such wonderful gentle casting of light across the lovely faces of your models -- this setting seems to have challenged you with it's deeply contrasted light. Your model either seems too flatly lit, or too shadowed in several of the shots. She is a lovely girl, of course, but her own features are soft enough to make the flat light less than ideal.

I love your work, and always look to your posts first, but I think you should re-shoot when or where you have a more gentle natural modeling light available. Or try the edge of the tree line, or a reflector, to bring up the shadows, but be out of the direct sun...

-- just my humble/trying to learn myself/opinion