Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Taken at the same session as Getting ready to travel.
The more I look at these image the more I think the lighting was a bit harsh.

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InfiniteISO Loc: The Carolinas, USA

They are good photos. I like the third and fifth best.

If you use lightroom, you may want to open one of the images with a lot of skin and pull down the orange saturation a bit and see what you think. That type of targeted color edit would make the skin tones look a bit more natural without changing your white balance and without pulling down the saturation for the entire image.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Thank you very much
I might try that

lukan Loc: Chicago, IL

The fourth one is, by far, the best!
Great capture!

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Thank you very much Lukan

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

One and two are my favorites, and I like them all. They are tastefully done and enjoyable to see. Good work, Frank.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Skin color is a bit harsh in all except the very last shot of the hand. Maybe try to reproduce that skin color in the other shots. Also a tad too much yellow in the skin in those shots.

sbohne

While she is an attractive model (especially for her age--not the normal 20-somethings so often depicted!) she seems to have a lot of specular highlights on her face. This makes her skin appear "greasy." I'm not sure what you use for fill light. I would normally expect to see that type of specular highlights on the face from a raw camera mounted flash, a polished reflector, or a silver umbrella.

Also, remember when a person is seated it is easy to add weight to them, especially if they cannot support themselves. Take a look at poses #2 & 3, then look at pose #4. She looks slender in comparison!

On pose #5, it would have been very sexy to get a peek at her breasts in the mirror. I know, the mirror is too small and she is seated too low. Two different shots combined in Photoshop, On1, etc. and make the mirror long enough to reveal cleavage.

Just a suggestion. Great model.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

You have a good eye for color!

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Thank you very much John

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Thank you very much
I agree with on the yellow cast in the skin.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Thank you very much
The young lady was 47-48 at the time
The shoot was so long ago I don't remember the lighting set up but I think the Main light was a 52" Octo-Box and maybe two back ground lights, since I very seldom used more than three lights. any fill would have been from 4X8 sheets of white foam core.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

These are vary nicely done, doing glam images with the older women is always a tough thing, you did it vary nicely.

Now a question. I would PM you but then often I feel that is cheating other out of a conversation about 'creativity'. Your model is seated in front of a dual glass top black tubular make up stand. Some years back a model was moving and was selling 'studio' items for her relocation move. I ended up buying a stand just like the one you show here. She need the money and I had no use for a make up stand but it did sit in the corner and inspire some ideas.

Years ago I saw an Alfred Hitchcock film in which a group was centered around a coffee table. The guests kept picking up and moving their plates covering up the camera view that was running from below that table. Each time the plat came down it went right where the camera was viewing the action around the coffee table.

I was quite intrigued by the use of the unique camera angle from below. That make up stand in your photograph brought back my thinking and memory of the film angle. To the point, I have to do some images of dance tomorrow and after lunch the woman wants to do some 'different' type of styling images. This triggered my memory and I have a large plate glass sheet that would make the perfect table top to shoot from below of a woman at her vanity.

So thanks for the inspiration and yes there will be some clutter on the table top as we look up from below. Hoping to create some original and new point of view for sexy images. If it works I will be posting the images.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Your very welcome, and thank you.
I guess I was lucky, I never felt it was difficult to do glamour with older women. In fact I prefer More mature women!! the mature woman knows what makes her look good and what don't. The young think no matter what they do or how they dress always looks good. However at my age they are all young ladies. Most of the models I have worked with had little to no experience at all.
I would be very leery using plate glass, I would suggest tempered glass.

dat2ra Loc: Sacramento

Any original glass in furniture would be tempered. But good reminder.
All my life, I've liked older women....well, up until now since they'd be in rest homes. So, I do appreciate your choice of models. I think she's a babe, and game for posing. I'm sure it was fun.