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Nikki

Jun 10, 2019 at 09:01 PM

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Will, not sure what you want from us here, but usually a critique seems to be expected!
First, Nikki is a very cute model. I like that the red material is very sharp with nice fabric texture, always a nice touch.
You did a good job of softening the face and somewhat evening out the color of her face. The pose is nice and suits her well, as is the location, it's not overpowering.
What I'd like to see different:
I don't see a catchlight.
The right forearm seems a bit blown out or too white.
The background is a little bright, it takes me away from her, as I look at the leaning lamppost. Tone it down and de-saturate the lamppost to look less obvious, as well as the green bush.
The professors I learned from called it "pressing the flesh". Anytime a model touches herself or in this case leans against the wall. She is leaning SOOO hard that it's distorting her arm and the veins in her hand look like they're gonna explode. She should just be kissing the wall with her shoulder.
I would have evened out the redness on her neck and the whiteness of her chest.
Clone out the lint on her left breast and on the shirt waist hem.
Not sure what's on the left but she's very off center in case you have more canvas on the left.
I tell all my models, NO jeans! This is modeling, where nothing is real, it's not school. But at least clone out the stains in the jeans.

Also we must always shot, at least today, with the 1:1 and 4:5 aspect ration of Instagram, where all of this winds up!!!
Don't get me wrong, this is a beautiful image of a lovely young woman and I'm sure she is ecstatic with it! But we as the photographers have to do the model's job for them since most of us are not working with professional models and we can't expect them the know the little details.
John

Jun 11, 2019 at 01:16 AM

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I appeciate your feedback...good information!
thanks

Jun 11, 2019 at 10:34 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Nikki

Very nice image Will of a photogenic young lady.

I have a few suggestions you might want to play around with.

1.) The lighting is pretty flat. I might jack up the contrast a bit.

2.) I would try to clone out the light pole behind her, and maybe the tree too.

3.) I might try to blur out the masonry joints that are in the focal plane.

4.) Women with their hands on their heads is very cliche. Next time have her actually put her hands in her hair and actually pull her hair back. To me, that seems more natural.

5.) You might want to blur the veins in her hands slightly.

Excellent image as is. Thanks for sharing.

Jun 11, 2019 at 11:34 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Nikki

JohnSil wrote:
Will, not sure what you want from us here, but usually a critique seems to be expected!
First, Nikki is a very cute model. I like that the red material is very sharp with nice fabric texture, always a nice touch.
You did a good job of softening the face and somewhat evening out the color of her face. The pose is nice and suits her well, as is the location, it's not overpowering.
What I'd like to see different:
I don't see a catchlight.
The right forearm seems a bit blown out or too white.
The background is a little bright, it takes me...Show more →

I took some of your suggestions and tweaked the photo a bit. There were some existing catch lights but just had to enhance them. Couldn’t do much with the composition. I enjoy taking critique and seeing how I can apply it and improve. Thanks to both of you for your ideas.

Jun 12, 2019 at 09:59 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Nikki

Its really weird that her hands appear much older than her face. Did the face get massively photoshopped while the hands did not ? Or does she do dishwashing all day ? Though in this time and age thats just putting the tableware into machines and shouldnt put much stress on the handskin either.

The second image looks worse than the first, because it looks more artificial.

Jun 13, 2019 at 05:06 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Nikki

Sauseschritt wrote:
Its really weird that her hands appear much older than her face. Did the face get massively photoshopped while the hands did not ? Or does she do dishwashing all day ? Though in this time and age thats just putting the tableware into machines and shouldnt put much stress on the handskin either.

The second image looks worse than the first, because it looks more artificial.

I appreciate your observation and response. I like critiques as I try to take them all in and then come up with something I and the subject are happy with and fits my personal style while attempting to improve upon it. This edit was in response addressing an earlier post regarding “model photos”. Nikki is actually 21 but looks a lot younger in the face(not a lot of photoshop) but older in her hand and arms. Some folks like model shots very natural and some like’em done up!

As in the immortal words of Ricky Nelson: “ya can’t please everyone, so you gotta please yourself”! ,

thanks again

Jun 13, 2019 at 08:43 AM


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