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Hello again Evan, thanks for posting yet another powerful series of beautiful proud portraits. My overall favourite is #3, although #2 appears to be quite similar at first glance here are the details in my view that make me like #3 more than #2:
First the body position in #3 is more straight which i believe gives more pride and prestance to the model, second in both pictures i love the way you added a table that gives support to the forward hand. But in #2 with the body angled this way the subject looks more like he's leaning at a bar ordering a beer or something especially since his other hand seems really like it's diving in his pocket. In that respect in my opinion #3 because of the more straight body position and the right hand seemingly not as boldly going in the pocket looks more official, more classic or less casual if you will. Also i much prefer the positioning of the background light in #3 it looks a bit higher and keeps the lower corners darker as opposed to the corners in #2 that are lighter and attracts my eye more. The said table appears also more straight in #3 and i find it more pleasing to the eye, in fact the table in #2 looks to be in 2 separate parts higher on the left of the picture and lower on the right. Because of all this the back light really surrounds perfectly the body and the body only really giving the nice subtle separation between background and subject. The devil is in the details right ? and you got me so hooked with this style of portraiture now, i can really see and appreciate those nice subtleties .
Lastly (i saved the best for last) since you have taught me the difference between broad and short lighting i can see that #3 is a short lighting set up as opposed to a broad one in #2, Frankly i really prefer the short light, seems to me everything is a little better with this light. It is more subtle, more flattering for the model and even the buttons on the uniform come out better, they really pop out without being hot spots.
I guess i'm trying to say that i can see more the light set up in#2, the flashes seem more obvious while on #3 it's quite the opposite the model seems to be lit from all around making the positioning of the light less obvious. In fact the portrait is so damm good i don't even try to figure out how it is lit.
If i had to put scores on the 2 pictures i'd give 100% for #3 and 97% for #2, yeah that's how good they are. I simply enumerated the very personal reasons i prefer #3.
Wish i could achieve this level of control.
Bravo Evan :-)
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