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MC OConnor
Posts: 63
Asbury Park, New Jersey, US
Trying to clean up my portfolio...

Just added this b&w.

Thoughts?


http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/120819/07/5030ff38727ae_m.jpg
Aug 19 12 08:20 am  Link  Quote 
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ELiffmann
Posts: 1,233
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US
Meh.  There's some great reading a few posts back in a thread by Niel Snape.  Read all the way to the end about posing and movement.  What bothers me most here is the stare and pose of the model.  I'm indifferent about the composition and flat light.
Aug 19 12 09:05 am  Link  Quote 
Photographer
Matt Forma
Posts: 336
Denver, Colorado, US
Don't worry so much about cleaning up your portfolio. Keep shooting and improving...
Aug 19 12 11:12 pm  Link  Quote 
Photographer
MC OConnor
Posts: 63
Asbury Park, New Jersey, US

ELiffmann wrote:
Meh. 

What bothers me most here is the stare and pose of the model.  I'm indifferent about the composition and flat light.

Agreed on the "meh" but I l like the stare, pose and composition.  The 'flat light' is what kills me about this shot.  That's just it... the shot is flat as a pancake.

Thanks for the feedback.

Aug 20 12 04:43 am  Link  Quote 
Photographer
MC OConnor
Posts: 63
Asbury Park, New Jersey, US

Matt Forma wrote:
Don't worry so much about cleaning up your portfolio. Keep shooting and improving...

So true, Matt...  going out today for child portrait shoot.

Want to get out with a model again in the next week.

Thanks for the words of encouragement!

Aug 20 12 04:44 am  Link  Quote 
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Lee_Photography
Posts: 7,645
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/120819/07/5030ff38727ae_m.jpg
This photo is more about the background then model, 75% of the photo is background
Blur the background so it is less distracting
Pointing a leg at camera tends to make it appear shorter

As far as the background that door with the vertical planks would be a nicer background then the one with sheets of ply wood, assuming of course it would be out of focus
Aug 20 12 04:59 am  Link  Quote 
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