Corina

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• Kilted-Arab (8348)
• [2008-06-12 0:03]
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Hi Bill - 1 for trying and for the interesting note about the shot.

I'm not good at portraiture, but it is interesting me more, so here are my views for what they are worth...

Firstly, the image is quite bright, I think you could have gone for a faster shutterspeed. Try aperture priority then look at the results on the camera screen - use the histogram if you can. If the image is too bright, go fully manual and adjust the shutterspeed accordingly.

Secondly, the pose looks very manufactured and unrelaxed. I think you can tell from the shot that neither the model nor the photographer are really comfortable - I guess that comes with time and practice. Try more natural poses, let your model stand in ways she would if the camera wasn't there - then snap away in continual exposure mode. Different angles, different expressions etc - ask her to look about, not always directly at the camera.

Thirdly, please have a look at the shots taken by rewshearer - you may find inspiration there.

Good luck!

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• Janone (17231)
• [2008-06-12 2:34]
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Hello Bill.
Very 'proffesional pose of Corina (reminds me the song, "I love Corina"...,
My only critique is, how come her skin is that pale ?
Was her father an Eskimo? haha
Best wishes to her and regards from Jan

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• vandana2923 (22070)
• [2008-06-12 5:49]

Hello Bill,
Good try, and somewhere we need to start doing new things.
Portrait is a difficult subject (at least for me). I like candid portrait shots, and not much studio.
For first try, not bad.
Next time keep control on exposure so that you won't get bright spots.
Vandana

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• jagroopsingh (1262)
• [2008-06-12 6:48]

hello dear bill

first step would take you high high and higher
good shot and far better than amateur

tfs
js

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• jan515 (13500)
• [2008-06-12 15:49]

Hi Bill,
Very beautiful Portrait, mad radiant emittance. A mad picture and completely particularly successfully with the Tonung and interesting note.
Regards.
Janusz

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• rewshearer (14608)
• [2008-06-12 18:45]

Hi Bill

I think Corina is a lovely model, and she's done ok with the pose here - although it does seem a little tense to me, she still hasn't really relaxed into it.

If I'd had the choice I would have her interact differently with the sculpture, it's quite a glaring element, particularly in the upper part of the shot above her head - perhaps you could have cropped down to her hand, and even used PP to darken the white?

A quicker shutter speed definitely - it's better to underexpose, and boost the levels, than to overexpose and be stuck with it. Actually I think you could have bumped the ISO up to 800, I know a lot of photographers think "ISO = grain!" but with portraits, actually it doesn't matter. Grain is ok and NR software is pretty good these days.

Nice shallow DOF ... although you have done better!

Rew

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• CyberMeritam (1757)
• [2008-06-13 4:10]
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Hi Bill,
Sorry to say this..i do agree with Kited-Arab,especially on a shutter speed and the aperture.The rest its ok,i'm not really sure about her pose,for me it is good enough.Here i do a WS and try to solve what our friends needed..Just for sharing..:)

CM

Thanks for the wonderful critique on my "WEDDING S2" picture...:)

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• Fortuna (12894)
• [2008-06-14 4:58]

Hello Bill,

Lovely and pretty young model! Very good photograph!
Congratulations and TFS,

Sergio

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• gunershot (10634)
• [2008-06-14 9:02]

Hi Bill,
What an amazing shot..BRAVOOOO!!! MY FRIEND.
Lovely model. Excellent shot. Congratulations.
Great portrait and perfect details.tfs.
Dr.Seyfettin Güner

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• ating76 (677)
• [2008-06-16 8:46]

Hi Bill,

I am definitely not an expert on portraiture photography but I do appreciate good portraits. Considering the circumstance you were in I think you did a fairly good job at this portrait. If only the model had a little make-up job, I think it would bring a little more zest to her appeal. I guess this is the part where some people will add 'digital make-up' on the model's face to make her look impossibly flawless.

TFS.

Regards,
Alvin