Hi there,

I've just a shoot focused on movement so I would like some feedback on the first 3 photos please.

Thanks.

You're getting your head and jaw angle right in all of them, which is hard. So your ballet training shows!

This one is interesting



Looks fine in mini-view but forced and inelegant when enlarged - it's the right leg; the shots been taken at a moment when it is too locked. It looks like you couldn't really have been walking at that moment and the brain goes "Wrong!" But has the best angle and proportion of any of them, so it's the one I'd study most for insight.

The combination of pose, camera angle and perspective aren't optimal in any of them - you must be aware that curvier figures are harder to shoot both from below and from close. More diagonal is better if it can look natural, and so is finding places where you can shoot from low with a longer lens - a 200mm equivalent or more. That will lets you shoot from further away, which will give a more natural perspective. Not an easy shooting set up to find, though!

Anyway, what you're working on is hard and these shots show real promise and movement skills.

To me, you look unhappy in the first two and troubled in the third.

You have several other images that I prefer.

Thanks for your encouragement thiswayup and thanks for feedback both. With the third, the idea was that I was running scared from something so that why I look in distress.

I have swapped one out for a different one if that works better? Still happy to hear opinions.

Not a fan, the dress is not working well, it is flaring at the mid section so your shape is being lost.
Your hair seems lifeless, the background is also very distracting.

In this photo your hair and dress choice come across much stronger.


The blurry right foot and hand are not working for me.
[Motion blur in a photo of you running is OK, but in this image it is distorting their shape.]

I wish you well

Since other members are commenting on various images, these are my favorites:

A lovely head shot!


So happy!

Hi Andie,

Well done for asking for advice.It can be tough starting up a portfolio.

Your portfolio is simply functional at the moment. The photographers you are working with in my opinion lack technical ability but most importantly, lack any creativity or creative sense. This isn't your fault, it's theirs.

I don't know how many photographers there are in Reading but to get a bit of creativity in your port you may have to look east - London's not that far from you

Good luck