Danpbphoto wrote:
What a lovely young woman Ron! Class and beauty! Great images!
Dan
Thanks, Dan! She's one of my 21 senior ambassadors for this year. As part of the program, they get a free hair and makeover at a Mario Tricoci salon, and I just love what they did with Julianne here.
All are really nice. Would like 1st one better if she was either to the right or left
of the tree that is growing out of her head. Very distracting for me.
akriegsfeld wrote:
All are really nice. Would like 1st one better if she was either to the right or left
of the tree that is growing out of her head. Very distracting for me.
That tree doesn't bother me one bit. The tree is 15-20 feet behind her and I'm shooting wide open. On a small web-sized shot, it may be distracting, but printed at the size it's meant to be, it's so out of focus it doesn't really play into the shot in terms of it coming out of her head.
#4 is my favorite. I like the lighting and composition. Your model (and her boots) look great. I might have chosen a different top as the black doesn't match the brown boots very well in my opinion. I am not crazy about the crop in #1 (mid-thigh) and the busy background does not offer framing. Sure, probably looks great enlarged but these are my thoughts based on what I see here. #2 is nice, too. I like the shallow dof with the bokeh circles in the glowing background. Here the diffuse, bright background works well with the darker and bolder tones of the young woman. I might like to see a little more variety in terms of her poses. In the first three, she is posed straight at the camera both body and face. She is angled in the last but not really very much.
I must admit that when I saw "senior portrait" in the thread title that I began to yawn...
...but these images are really nice!
I think #4 is the most "perfect" image but #2 is my favorite because it looks like an image of her being herself and those are the kinds of captures I tend to favor.
