Tamy_2

Critiques [Translate]

•      
• SideLined (183)
• [2008-01-14 7:42]

hi! i don't speak spanish so i won't even try to guess what your note says... =)

my comment would be on the lighting... i'm not quite sure what you were trying to highlight in this portrait... just my 2 cents worth... cheers!

•  
• richardj7 (582)
• [2008-01-14 8:09]

Nice Rembrandt lighting. Guapa. You should have a better balance between the distance of her shoes to the bottom of the photo, and her head that is cut off on top. It's not much, but it would be better balanced if you had just a little more space on top.


This is a traditional modeling pose. I would turn her body just a little bit more to her right.

•  
• rewshearer (20718)
• [2008-01-14 11:55]
• [+]

Good lighting is hard to do, Carlos, and it's mostly the lighting setup that has let this shot down.

Despite your softbox, the shadows are quite harsh; I suspect your main light was too high up and too close to your model, which is why we see deep shadows in her eyes and her head's shadow on her right shoulder, with a wide variation in brightness between her head, and feet.

Your second light was presumably directed at the background.

I think if you pulled your main light back further, your problems with lighting would be solved; the camera would choose a longer shutter speed, the light would appear more diffuse and even, the shadows would be less harsh, and the background would be lighter.

The other issue here is crop, it doesn't work very well to have the top of her head touching the frame.

You have a lovely model and you have good equipment, better than I do at least! so I know you'll deliver better shots than this.

regards
Rew