One cannot let beautiful graffiti go to waste! I stumbled across this old abandoned building a couple years ago while mountain biking and knew it was something special. I have known since then that I wanted to do something different with it but it wasn't until I met Lydia a few months ago that it clicked. I wanted a wild child theme but I had to have a model with unparalleled beauty to pull it off. Lydia and I bounced ideas off each other for a few weeks and here's what we created! I'm sorry if I post a few to many images but I couldn't single any more out. Enjoy and as always C&C is welcomed!
Thank you!! Great point on number 1. I should have had another inch of hair and another inch of wrists. Ok maybe I'll go through and edit this set quick so there aren't as many. I had a hard time getting it down to this many but as I look at them again there are a couple that are really close so I'll eliminate a few. I figured we were pushing it a bit with the nose ring but I liked the mod it brought. Thanks for your advice I truly appreciate it.
Justin
Vcook wrote:
1,2 I prefer the landscape crop of 1 but it's too tight. Both great photos
3, 9, 11, 14, and 15 are all really excellent. The graffiti background colors work great to really contrast her dark hair.
Slightly smaller group of photos will probably get you more feedback, its a little overwhelming.
I don't mind piercings, and the nostril piercing doesn't detract at all, but the septum peircing I find really draws my attention in each photo.
Nice set--looks good. I am only critiquing #1 as I feel it has award winning potential.
For 1, her eyes are linear and beautiful...but her chin n left hand is at a perspective tilt which makes it a bit uncomfortable for the eyes. A quick solution would be to defocus those areas to pull more attention to the eyes. There is also some color variation w/ the grass from the left side being more saturated and the right side lacking the respective chroma.
Everything else is brilliantly rendered. Number 9 has a good color palette and strong gesture...which is more important than a "cool" pose most of the time.
FotoHouse wrote:
Nice set--looks good. I am only critiquing #1 as I feel it has award winning potential.
For 1, her eyes are linear and beautiful...but her chin n left hand is at a perspective tilt which makes it a bit uncomfortable for the eyes. A quick solution would be to defocus those areas to pull more attention to the eyes. There is also some color variation w/ the grass from the left side being more saturated and the right side lacking the respective chroma.
Everything else is brilliantly rendered. Number 9 has a good color palette and strong gesture...which is more important than a "cool" pose most of the time....Show more →
Thank you!! I would love to try for an award. Ok so I pretty much strictly use LR and I'm assuming the good defocus tools are in PS? I see the point on the grass and that should be easy to even out. Thank you so so much for the advice and taking the time to share!
bwalwork wrote:
#3, 6 & 14 work best for me, although the entire series is quite good. The OOF background images are great.
Where the walls are in focus, I'm a bit distracted. Also, the shots where her cleavage is visible distract as well.
Your model has a fabulous face and her hair, make-up and nails work beautifully together.
Thank you! I'm a huge color guy and I was loving the blurred out colors in the background, maybe a bit too much with all the close up shots . She is a doll and our HMU, Bailey, absolutely knocked it out of the park!
Her face and the blurred graffiti background fit very well. The beautiful face dominates the otherwise strong color background; a beauty put in the right surrounding.
AFphotography wrote:
Thank you!! I would love to try for an award. Ok so I pretty much strictly use LR and I'm assuming the good defocus tools are in PS? I see the point on the grass and that should be easy to even out. Thank you so so much for the advice and taking the time to share!
Justin
You're welcome. Yes PS has some new killer defocusing tools--you will have to tinker w/ it to imitate how an actual lens (and what type of lens bokeh) produces.
I'm sorry, but the nose ring dominates for me. I am reminded of the line from the great Edward Lear's epic poem The Owl and the Pussycat:
"And there, in the wood, a Piggywig stood, with a ring in the end of its nose, its nose, with a ring in the end of its nose."
. She is a doll and our HMU, Bailey, absolutely knocked it out of the park!