Model's Choice

[wilgk]

Very nice Kaye, what a beautiful girl, well done!

Thanks David, I am lucky she likes her photo taken & she is lucky her Mother likes to take photos

[wilgk]

Absolutely beautiful model with classic features. However, the images did not grab me. Somehow the fence seems to be an intrusion. I would also like to see some head and shoulders shots.

Thankyou Richard, I will share a more classic, girl only pic

[wilgk]

Ummm, well, I like the prop of the gate - it adds to the "nature" element of the scene as a whole, but that's a matter of taste. And that preference may have influenced the next comment, clone out the gate - where would that leave her hands? If the objective was a "model" shoot rather than a holistic "model in an attractive setting" one, the gate etc needed to be dealt with before shooting (like we used to have to do with film, as some will remember). I like them Kay, thanks for sharing - and especially for having a go with the backlit one.

Thanks Bill, These were our plan to show off the dress and it's colour in the rural evening setting, with golden light. I specifically wanted a rusty gate fence to pick up the dress, her hair, the grasses etc.
Maybe the rural setting would make a nice landscape image and Georgie would make a nice portrait subject separately but together they work as well I think.

Being a canny young lass, in the social media world, my Fashionista daughter buys clothes or jewellery, I take photos of her wearing them, she posts them onto the company's social media sites.
Sometimes, often enough, they send her free items to wear as long as she posts more photos with the company 'tag's' in them.
She gets free stuff, they get free advertising, as she has a large # of followers.... win win

[Manfred M]

Thankyou Manfred, your feedback is always constructive and very much welcomed..
I did have supplementary lighting in the pal, but no VAL, and the wind was too much to risk a light stand in the quite literally 'field'.

For sure, large reflectors and light modifiers are no fun at all if the wind is blowing. Even when it is not, you really need an assistant to handled managing those tools. A light stand with sandbags in a field is tricky to handle by yourself.

I do have the nose/cheekline & background line through head in my mental 'portrait rule book' but the first is actually pretty hard to follow - Ive tried at times & it can give a too much whites of the eyes wolf look or too many creases in the neck.

If there is too much whites of eyes, usually your subject not looking straight ahead, but rather is looking at something else. Having your model looking straight ahead fixes this issue.

The creases in the neck mean that you have had the model twist her head too much. Get her to turn in the opposite direction to stretch the skin more tightly and change your shooting position. That should fix that issue.

The branch in #3 most definitely, I didn't pick that & it is easily fixed.

Exactly.

The one thing I saw that I thought others might mention, is should I remove some of the flyaway hair strands.. funny what each of us sees in the same image, of course thats part of the appeal of this game.

It's best to try to control that while shooting, as it saves a lot of time in PP. That being said, getting it 100% right during the shoot is nearly impossible, in my experience. Good PP tools are great for minor touch-ups.

Thankyou again, I did do a couple of more classic 'model only' I will edit one of those later tonight.

You're welcome. I'm looking forward to seeing them.

[IzzieK]

Your daughter photographed very well...My vote goes to #2 as if I have to choose. (Yesterday I have been looking at Colin's old portrait tutorial and saw your inputs there...) ​

[wilgk]

Your daughter photographed very well...My vote goes to #2 as if I have to choose. (Yesterday I have been looking at Colin's old portrait tutorial and saw your inputs there...) ​

Thankyou Izzie, some Mother/Daughters get their nails done together, or have coffee....we do pictures