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p.2 #1 · Steph

M-E-P wrote:
I love #3. Could use a little highlight recovery.

was that vinyl or paper she was on?

Thank you for the critique. She is on white muslin.

Nov 13, 2008 at 04:30 AM

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p.2 #2 · Steph

mttran wrote:
Best is # 2

Thank you for the comment.

Nov 13, 2008 at 04:30 AM

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p.2 #3 · Steph

HeatherCKing wrote:
i personally like the blown out image on a white backdrop - its clean and airy. +1 from me

Thank you for looking and leaving encouragement.

Nov 13, 2008 at 04:31 AM

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As stated above but worth reiterating, the whites are too white. I can barely see any of the details in the shirt and can not tell where the background and the shirt are separate. Overall, I get the strongest feeling from number 2, meaning that the model is engaging the viewer, the light on her face is even and well exposed. Unlike number 1, her hair in this picture is controlled which is not distracting me, as well it looks good being pushed to one side. The red jewelry she is wearing keeps the viewers eye to the right side of the frame but moves your eye from her face near the top down towards the middle of the picture, from here my eyes followed her body line to the left, bringing me all the way through the picture. Other than the whites being blown out I think this is a great picture. However, after reducing the brightness I would imagine that you would need to do something to get the model to pop out of the background.

These are just my thoughts on the photo, I hope they were helpful in some way.

Thanks
Isaiah

Thank you very much for your thoughts. Very much appreciated.

Nov 13, 2008 at 04:33 AM

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p.2 #5 · Steph

Jim Rickards wrote:
Like many of the others, I find the white-on-white a bit of a problem. The clothing blends into the background just a bit too much.

Thank you for your comment. Appreciated.

Nov 13, 2008 at 04:34 AM

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p.2 #6 · Steph

wow - those eyes are amazing! As for the photograph, I think these are very well done. Great lighting, tack sharp.

Nov 13, 2008 at 01:24 PM

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fstop212 wrote:
wow - those eyes are amazing! As for the photograph, I think these are very well done. Great lighting, tack sharp.

Thank you for looking and leaving encourgement.

Nov 13, 2008 at 05:00 PM

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p.2 #8 · Steph

you can never go wrong shooting a stunning woman like that.

Nov 06, 2009 at 05:35 PM

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Hmm, the blown whites are a problem for me, as it appears her hands and limbs come out of nowhere.

Nov 06, 2009 at 06:20 PM

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fstop212 wrote:
wow - those eyes are amazing! As for the photograph, I think these are very well done. Great lighting, tack sharp.
+1..

As has been said before, a very beautiful model. I like 'em.

Nov 08, 2009 at 12:36 AM

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p.2 #11 · Steph

Love high key, mainly because of my simple refusal to shoot it, and every time I see it, it's so different. Looks nice!

Nov 08, 2009 at 04:35 AM

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p.2 #12 · Steph

The white on white and the posing for the most part are fine with me. The images look somewhat cold to me, by which I mean they don't seem to evoke much interest besides looking pretty. I don't mean this in a pejorative way, but they look like catalog shots- meant to be a clear documentation of an object. The posing is routine (again, not being mean, just trying for constructive criticism). I don't know if you did a lot of post-processing, but there's such a digital look to the images that even if you did very little PP, I'd say they look overprocessed. Maybe it's the studio thing- with evenly lit white seamless, the subject has to carry 100% of the image since there's zero mood coming from the background. It's tough to do with restrained posing and relatively large flat lighting. She is a gorgeous subject though.

Nov 08, 2009 at 06:09 PM

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p.2 #13 · Steph

Steady Hand wrote:
4. Red shoes. Grab attention. Not good, not bad...just a fact.

Shoes are fine since she has a RED necklace and RED earrings...

Nice work.

Nov 08, 2009 at 06:12 PM

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There's an old photo school exercise for white on white, where you shoot an egg on a white background. One of the points of the exercise is that

1) True white lacks detail
2) We are programmed to want to see the foreground object as brighter than the background most of the time.
3) Thus, in order to convey something that registers to our eyes as white-on-white, you typically want the background to be a slightly darker (but still bright) gray than the foreground object. If the foreground object is darker than the background, it registers as dingy.

Its a tightrope act, but as a general rule I think you might have better luck with "white" on "white" if you ease off on the background light a bit and let it fall off to gray just a smidge. It will still register to the eye as a white background, even if its actually just a light gray. It may not be the only way to do it, but its the "tried and true." As Steady said, though... exposure can be a matter of taste.

Nov 08, 2009 at 06:27 PM

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Evan Baines wrote:
There's an old photo school exercise for white on white, where you shoot an egg on a white background. One of the points of the exercise is that

1) True white lacks detail
2) We are programmed to want to see the foreground object as brighter than the background most of the time.
3) Thus, in order to convey something that registers to our eyes as white-on-white, you typically want the background to be a slightly darker (but still bright) gray than the foreground object. If the foreground object is darker than the background, it registers as dingy.

Its a tightrope act, but as a general rule I think you might have better luck with "white" on "white" if you ease off on the background light a bit and let it fall off to gray just a smidge. It will still register to the eye as a white background, even if its actually just a light gray. It may not be the only way to do it, but its the "tried and true." As Steady said, though... exposure can be a matter of taste.

Evan, wow! I never knew about that exercise and I'm going to try it when I'm feeling better.

I love checking out other folks work, then reading the replies. I learn a lot from it too.

Nov 08, 2009 at 07:02 PM

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jfinite wrote:
Hmm, the blown whites are a problem for me, as it appears her hands and limbs come out of nowhere.

Thanks for the feedback. I did a re-edit of one of the photos and brought it down some. Maybe better?

Nov 09, 2009 at 01:48 PM

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p.2 #17 · Steph

Josiah Jones wrote:
fstop212 wrote:
wow - those eyes are amazing! As for the photograph, I think these are very well done. Great lighting, tack sharp.
+1..

As has been said before, a very beautiful model. I like 'em.

Thank you Josiah.

Nov 09, 2009 at 01:48 PM

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JeanYves Ahern wrote:

too white on white

That is what high key is supposed to be, when shot correctly.

Nov 09, 2009 at 02:08 PM

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p.2 #19 · Steph

ladytx wrote:
jfinite wrote:
Hmm, the blown whites are a problem for me, as it appears her hands and limbs come out of nowhere.

Thanks for the feedback. I did a re-edit of one of the photos and brought it down some. Maybe better?

Yes, I like the additional detail, but there may be a little bit of a blue bias in the shirt and background now (I'm on a bad monitor right now, so I could be wrong).

Nov 09, 2009 at 03:22 PM

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p.2 #20 · Steph

RobertLynn wrote:
Love high key, mainly because of my simple refusal to shoot it, and every time I see it, it's so different. Looks nice!

Thanks Robert.

Nov 10, 2009 at 02:09 PM

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