I was hired to do headshots, poses, and environmentals for a local yoga/pilates/dance studio. I took several styles of "headshots," but my personal favorites were the very close, straight-on shots, so that's what I've posted. All of these are for web, not print, so I have probably clipped highlights a little bit in skin tones (in post). I thought having some texture would give the shots a nice "organic" feel. My masking is far from perfect, as these are just quickie versions of my own vision for the shots, which the instructors may or may not like. Any comments or critiques are of course welcome.

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Excellent...job well done.

damn bro! so good, such variety!

Good job. How do they do that?

Awesome! I love the whole series. As Canerino said, lots of variety.
I can't even choose a favorite. (:

Let us know if they like them!

boazsport wrote:
Good job. How do they do that?

They could do some pretty amazing things, for sure.

Thanks for commenting, everyone!

These work well todd - made my eyes water too...

Fantastic series! I like the feel of both the color and b&w. That blurred image works really well in this series!

Tim

Thank you, Tim and Liam!

Agree with the others. Excellent series, beautifully done.

I really like the look of the b&w headshots.

Good choice on the headshots, BW looks good

These are a great series, definitely conveys what the studio is about.


Lord I would be in traction if I tried half those poses\moves or whatever they call them.

Nice job, Todd. The B&W's are a bit tight for my taste, but I sure like the expression you got throughout the whole shoot. Wonderful.

Boring headshots...

Thanks to all for your encouraging comments.

Pfiltz, if you were to specify how/why you find them boring, I would be happy to consider your suggestions, and take them into account on my next shoot. You didn't mention any of the other shots. Not that you are required to, but I am curious if you have any opinion.

todd, this is such a great set

disagree with pfiltz on the headshots-boring? please-i think that's an absolutely rude and useless way to comment on peoples' work-if you don't like it, say so and explain why-i suspect, however, that he'd rather be snarky than helpful-makes him feel important-oh well, can't win 'em all-i love the expressions, well framed-like the poses/positions shots as well-the simplicity of it all works for the yoga theme, i think

the motion on 3b is very interesting-without those colors (her clothing), i don't think it would have worked so well-but together, it's a great combo

really nice set

daniel

Excellent !!

Very nice, Todd (buddy)!

Miss you from the other place....hope all is well!

Thanks again, guys. Carl, nice to see you!

radioblurs wrote:
todd, this is such a great set

disagree with pfiltz on the headshots-boring? please-i think that's an absolutely rude and useless way to comment on peoples' work-if you don't like it, say so and explain why-i suspect, however, that he'd rather be snarky than helpful-makes him feel important-oh well, can't win 'em all-i love the expressions, well framed-like the poses/positions shots as well-the simplicity of it all works for the yoga theme, i think

the motion on 3b is very interesting-without those colors (her clothing), i don't think it would have worked so well-but together, it's a great combo

really nice set

daniel


Thanks for your kind words, Daniel, I really appreciate it. To be fair, I recently posted in one of Pfiltz's threads saying an image was boring, without going into specifics. I assume that's the only reason he even bothered to look at my thread.

I really like the shots of the instructors in action - especially the last one.

I think the ladies all have cute smiles in the headshots; nice job getting them engaged in the photos. But the repetition of the poses is a little - well... repetitive. Maybe it would be nice to have a few different angles thrown in if you have them? Just to kind of mix it up and prevent a formulaic look to the sheet.

Ed

The first set of headshots are great, very clean looking and well detailed with the black and white. I think they are great and really show the personality of the individuals

Well, done, Todd. You seemed to connect with them all so well...the expressions are all really good. I even like the blurry one too.

ESC in KC wrote:
But the repetition of the poses is a little - well... repetitive. Maybe it would be nice to have a few different angles thrown in if you have them? Just to kind of mix it up and prevent a formulaic look to the sheet.


Ed, thanks. It's possible I chose a non-ideal way to present these. These will be profile shots for their thumbs and individual web site pages. I did 4 different shots for each instructor, and the others all included their full heads and one was about a half-length shot. They haven't decided yet whether to go with a uniform look to the shots or to let each one be a little different, at the instructors' preferences, but I think with the range I got I am well-armed to provide them with whatever they need. Personally, I like the uniform look, and I worked these up fully in hopes of convincing them this is the way to go. They wouldn't appear so jammed together on the actual web page, and may possibly link to pages with a different shot.

Thank you Seoulman and James. The expressions on these shots are what I was happiest with about this shoot. I always worry about getting a couple of awkward people from whom I can't elicit a natural expression, but these women were all pretty relaxed and comfortable.