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some happy snaps... C&C?

Postby Oz_Beachside on Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:19 pm

...joking gary :D

last pics from a set I finished processing during the week. I need to work on pose direction, but please, let lose on feeback, do you like these overall? any areas that need vast improvement?
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Postby Alpha_7 on Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:35 pm

All of these seem either too tightly cropped or not cropped tight enough for me, each as some part of the model off the edge of the image, if you not going to show all of her I'd prefer to be tighter, or more structured in some way.

Just a general comment, I'm not sure why but your images always seem softer then I believe they should be, and #1 and #3 definitely seem to fit the soft category (at least on my monitor).

#1 Locket is distracting, composition awkward bits of legs in the background, missing part of her hair on the RHS, her arm on the LHS.
The lighting on her face and her leg help create a nice 3d shape but I don't think the composition makes the best of good lighting.

#2 LIghting and pose are ok (maybe if she was a little tiny bit more relaxed it would be even better) again its the composition that doesn't do it for me here.

#3 The lighting feels a tad flat here, there is a bit of shape on her face, but I think you can do better.

Hope I wasn't too harsh, and I'm no model photographer to take it all with a big pinch of salt.
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Postby Oz_Beachside on Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:07 pm

thanks craig, very solid, and great to hear, thanks heaps!
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Postby Oz_Beachside on Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:00 pm

I think a lot of my poor crops, are due to an annoying magnify eye piece I put on one of my cameras. I often shoot with two, one with standard eye piece.

the magnifier one, you cant see the whole viewfinder at once, so I miss edges (also through specs....)

think I'll take it off, and find the original eye piece...

as for softness, I'll post a 300DPI, it could be my 72 DPI files, then hosted on pbase, losing quality at each step???

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