I'm a bird and wildlife shooter although I enjoy all genres.
I've never had the opportunity of taking the awesome pictures and have access to models you share here, until a few months ago when I took part in a Photography Expo and there were a few models to shoot, this model in particular was interesting, so here it is.
All the shots were taken with the Leica TL2 with a 35mm f1.4 Summilux.
Looks to me like she needs a spanking.
Photo #1 is very good. She's posing very well. With women, it's best to have the edge of the hand facing the camera rather than the flat of the hand. It would have been good to have her turn her body a little instead of being squared up with the camera.
Unfortunately, photos #2 and #3 have problems. In photo #2, you've cropped through her wrist. You never want to crop through someone's joints. In photo #3, the flat of her hands are towards the camera and she'e slumped over.
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
Not a fan of the egg-yolk background. And the bust doesn't work for me - I am trying to figure out if there is a story behind the picture with the bust, but her expression just seems so unrelated that all I can think is: "what is that bust doing in the photo"?
There's a section here to UHH called : Professional and Advanced Portraiture. It's managed by Mr. Shapiro who has decades of experience with portraits and gives expert advice. You might want to post your photo there also.
This book is great for portraiture. I've had it for some time. They have a diagram that shows to proper way to crop portraits. Photo #2 has cropped at her wrist which is not good. Photo #3 has cropped at her finger joints, also not good.
She looks like she’d really rather be doing something else😊
sergiohm wrote:
until a few months ago when I took part in a Photography Expo
From her smile on #3, I guess she realized that the Photography Expo paid more for the bust of David than for her.
sergiohm wrote:
I'm a bird and wildlife shooter although I enjoy all genres.
I've never had the opportunity of taking the awesome pictures and have access to models you share here, until a few months ago when I took part in a Photography Expo and there were a few models to shoot, this model in particular was interesting, so here it is.
All the shots were taken with the Leica TL2 with a 35mm f1.4 Summilux.
She has the expression of "my mother made me do this."
For me the best of the three is the first one.
Not really sure what is going on in the other two.
Tom
Why do models ever smile anymore????
Thanks for the comments I rarely shoot portraits but I do want to learn, I'll add this book to my collection.
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