JoboX Loc: Liverpool UK

Dance shoot.. criticism & comments welcome

AUminer Loc: Brandon, Ms

Nice set JoBoX. I especially like #3.

1eyedjack

All are very nicely done..

JoboX Loc: Liverpool UK

Thanks AUminer.... have to agree with you my favourite too...

JoboX Loc: Liverpool UK

Thanks 1eyedjack and thank you for looking

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

Really like 1 & 3! Struggling with # 2 - I like the idea but it seems a little too centered, IMHO.

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

Really Like 1, 3 and 5. No 1 is my favorite.

One of the things I have been doing on shots like 1 is having the subjects eyes follow the nose a little more. The looking back does work in this photo. I am making this suggestions just more for options. Head tilted down just a little with the eyes focused between the camera and her nose. It's a non posed version of this.
One of the things I really like about how your photography has progressed is your ability to capture mood. This is very difficult for most photographers. You have a really good ability to select the correct(best) shot of your series and to capture a somewhat candid non posed moment. The suggestions above are just to give some suggestions on your journey of capturing mood. Your lighting is really working! You also have the perfect model for this type of shot!

Well done!

Russ

Two edit suggestions on #1

Use the liquify tool to subtly thin the arm closest to camera.

If you are good with color you should be able to color match her arrm to her face(or back -- it's a tad paler) and remove some of the red out of the hand.
Thats its for the edits.

JoboX Loc: Liverpool UK

Thanks raymondh I think you maybe right about the central view ...on reflection a bit of cropping wouldn't go amiss..... :thumbup:

JoboX Loc: Liverpool UK

Thanks for the advice and direction, I will try reducing the slab of meat as referred to on most photo sites (I did notice this at first but was reluctant to change... so will try to thin now someone else has noticed) I had done quite a bit of editing on the back as she had straps from the leotard and bra showing so basically had already rebuilt her shoulders... should have colour balanced the arm also as you have spotted...will post (original) untouched photo and edited later (Russ-edit)

Thanks again for the sound advice its always welcome and trusted. :thumbup: :thumbup:

carlysue Loc: Columbus

I like the mood of #3--the anticipation of whatever is to come. and I like the art of #4-- the dance on the bus or subway or whatever is not the usual place to see the ballerina in pose. Very nice.

JoboX Loc: Liverpool UK

Trying to think out of the box Carlysue, thinking where do I find loads of grab rails etc and the transport museum came to mind... didn't know whether it would work and it has given me ideas for future shots... Thanks for looking :thumbup:

FreoJim Loc: Fremantle, Western Australia

I'm just lurking in the background here but I have to say how much I appreciate, and get out of, this sort of exchange. UH is great but there are too many 'that's lovely' comments on most of the submissions I look at. This sort of constructive criticism of what are clearly excellent pics is much more helpful - to me at least. So thanks JoBox, PalePictues and others.

FreoJim Loc: Fremantle, Western Australia

.....oh and I like carlysue's more emotional/subjective - not sure what is the right word - response. With this type of pic - there's probably a name - anti-environmental perhaps - subject NOT in her normal territory! - it is the effect on the viewer which is crucial. With #3, which i love, I would have been fussing about where to crop and how much detail to leave in the shadows and forgetting what I was trying to convey. I'm sure JoBox was way ahead of me there.

Sorry to bang on - great discussion.

JoboX Loc: Liverpool UK

Thanks FreoJim

I love constructive criticism it helps in so many ways, Paleface and CaptainC to mention a few give advice that makes me change my approach to shooting... I'm still new to manual photography and have a lot to learn but these guys and girls on here make it pleasurable. I've spent the whole day in manual practising for a wedding shoot I've been asked to do, officially my first one although I have taken wedding photos before. Hope you can see the link between shooting outside and indoors changing scenarios and not that the guests are being compared to animals.:lol:

Like you I love feedback and sometimes its nice for someone to say well done I like that shot as is. Getting the technical and arty feedback feeds the cerebal function to get a better shot next time.

JoboX Loc: Liverpool UK

Should have mentioned the shooting was at the zoo yesterday :lol: :lol: