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RichardLavigne wrote:
p150 and ziffi3... i'm interested in why the dress shots seem lifeless. what do you mean by this? what can I do to better them?
Dress shot #1 - There are no interesting angles in the room to add to the composition. We aren't looking at the dress from an interesting perspective. There is no interesting lighting applied. The dress has no flow or sense of motion. You can see the whole room, which isn't adding any interesting context.
Basically, it's just a straight-on, flat-lit, shot of a dress that's just hanging there like a sad sack.... and it's cut off at the bottom, meaning you favored getting more of that ugly light fixture in there instead of the whole dress.
Dress shot #2 - Pretty much the same as the other, but closer.
I really don't mean for this to come off as harsh. The venue looks like a hotel, so I'm sure your options were limited. But don't let that be an excuse! Don't settle for taking an "insurance documentation" type of shot. 
Possible options for improving:
- Use off-cam light to spotlight the dress from a dramatic angle. This would give interesting depth and shadow to the dress as well as darken the rest of the room comparatively.
- Get under the dress and shoot upward, or over it shooting down, or pick a unique detail and focus on that. Something that draws the viewer in and makes them want to take notice.
- Use existing structures like wall molding, windows, doors, columns, or whatever to have the dress as part of a whole composition instead of just taking a shot of the dress (Evan Baines has a sweet shot of a dress on a coat hook next to regular coats and umbrellas and such).
- Jeff
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