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Oct 17, 2011 11:14:28   #
frank bruce wrote:
in this case u should take a few more images so that u cover everything.i agree with u , it's the customer that matters in this case. this could go on forever .frank bruce.


Frank, you are correct, and for the record I did take many more posses and images. We usually end up with a proof book of 30-40 images for the customer.
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Oct 17, 2011 10:53:22   #
Baby Hypo wrote:
If this was my daughter, I'd be just a little more than upset about the last picture. If this girl is a senior in high school, why are you making her look like a hooker in the slum district? I know styles are like this, but it is still possible to put back the innocence of a young girl. Enough of the moralizing.
Last picture looses the flow & grace possible. Her right arm is perfectly straight - bad posing of hands & arms in both pic 1 & 3.

If you are going to use a distressed wood background, blue jeans & a blouse/sweater would have been a better choice & wouldn't have been objectionable as some have pointed out.

Your lighting is rather bright on the arms & hands. Notice when you have the bright arm up close to the face, there is more flesh from the arm than the face. It pulls the viewer away from her face, which as others have stated, is lovely.

The way you are posing the hands, she looks as though the fingers have been cut off of one of the hands.

You might try using a "gobo" to take away some of the light in the arm hand area so that the face will continue to pop out.
May I say that if you think I'm too free with comments, you should have had some of the instructors I had years ago. They were brutal - thought nothing of riping up prints & throwing them in the trash & telling me to go back & do it right. Ah, those were the days. My dad was great for that. I once spent a whole Saturday printing for the yearbook. Brought the prints home to dry. Didn't have to dry too many. Dad took a look at them & started chewing them up like fodder.

Keep going though because that is how we learn. I'm not one of the circuit teachers, but have been knocked around a few times. Just a couple of little things & you will be putting out great pictures. Best to you.
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Thanks for the honest opinion. The issue is not if she looks cheap or whatever, it is the quaility of the photo. I have to make money at this and if the customer wants sexy, then it is my job to give her great looking sexy photos, not rather I think she has too much eye make up on if her dress is to tight.
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Oct 15, 2011 18:32:24   #
Cecil wrote:
How about this?
Cecil


On my screen it looks a bit light, loss the depth of the colors. May just be my screen here too.
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Oct 15, 2011 15:32:01   #
Lar wrote:
A little too much smirk and eye smoke


Ye I agree, the eye makeup was a bit heavy, for my taste anyway.
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Oct 15, 2011 15:31:23   #
frank bruce wrote:
do u work with any photoediting software?frank bruce


Frank, we use CS5 and Topaz.
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Oct 15, 2011 15:29:56   #
Rachel wrote:
Most young girls want to look sexy. They have no idea what their in for. It was up to Mom to intervene. With Victoria Secret and other stuff gears toward young girls like the PINK products, It's really hard to keep them away from the overly sexy look.
When I go in their seem like most of the customer are 12-18 year old girls sometimes with their mothers. Sometimes not. That includes my two girls who are 16 and 18 and all their friends. So yeah they all want to look sexy. But, not everyone want to see tramping looking pictures of girls. Many schools won't even allow those kind of shots in the year book. At least not the two schools my girls go to. Ones in Catholic school the others in public school.
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I understand what you are saying but this time Mom came in and said they wanted sexy. Not much choice for me. I did some other poses that were not that way too for yearbook use.
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Oct 15, 2011 09:48:50   #
jackinkc wrote:
Prospect Acres wrote:
Here is a couple of others from the session last night. Nothing done yet expect cropping. Let me know what your thoughts and ideas are.


My fave is the top one of these two. I would do a bit of skin manipulation to increase the contrast between her body and the background. The second photo looks to be a bit over-posed to me. I would rather see her in dark pants than it a strained skirt. Also the metal device in the left front seems distracting.


Thanks for the advise. As I said we have not done anything to these photos yet other than cropping. We will begin to work on them as soon as we get the 1000 school pics printed that I took a couple of weeks ago.
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Oct 14, 2011 14:08:43   #
JimH wrote:
I sorry, I have to disagree with the people who like the last pic-she looks like a street hooker in that shot. The one above it is far better.


I understand Jim, and I don't think I would want my 17-18 yr old daughter to look like that but when she and mom came in, mom's instuctions were they like close ups and she wants to look sexy. To each his own I guess.
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Oct 14, 2011 14:00:38   #
Country's Mama wrote:
I am no expert and you have gotten their opinion, but I have seen a lot of senior portraits lately and I can see them loving the third. I have a friend who does high end senior pictures and she takes them to places like this. I would have cropped it in tighter and gotten rid of the bar thing though.
I do like the black on black and think she will also. I actually like the pose in the fire picture, but the fire is a bit much for my taste. I will guess that this young lady may love it.


I do have the third image without the rail road post thingy. but personally I liked it there. Also for my taste the fire is not my favorite but it images like this seem to be the thing around my area. Gotta give them what they want.
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Oct 14, 2011 12:11:48   #
I think the hardest part of protrait work is getting the image of the person to look like what they "think" they look like. Sometimes that is miles apart.
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Oct 14, 2011 11:52:18   #
Here is a couple of others from the session last night. Nothing done yet expect cropping. Let me know what your thoughts and ideas are.




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Oct 14, 2011 11:38:00   #
I understand your point about the proximety of the fire, but I was really just going for the effect the the reality. I wanted something that would catch your eye like BAM!!
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Oct 14, 2011 11:25:28   #
Thanks I apprecaite the feedback.
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Oct 14, 2011 11:10:07   #
Jim, her left leg is bent under the right one. She has thigh high black boots on.
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Oct 14, 2011 11:09:04   #
She has not seen it yet, just did the photo session last night. But from what I got from her last night, I think she will really like it.
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