Yes, #6 is basically what Paul and Bulent were unhappy with--me too, in fact. The framing is just ... off. I'm going to see how fixable that is.
#5 is quite subjective. My hand was forced by the size of the room: 10 feet between the walls, so I was forced to stand out in the kitchen shooting into the dining room where chair/subject were. But I'm not too unhappy with the soft shadow effect in this case. That said, I'm going to move us to a larger room next shoot. #4: I think you're right; we could have played with props more. Good point. Thank you for your considered critique, Collin. BTW, on the "close up" comment: that's my preferred style. I love close-ups and generally go for tight framing in portraits. But Louise *HATES* closeups of herself. She'd rather be photographed from a very long way away; the further the better. :-) I got a very nice close up of her while in the recording studio mixing her blues CD and she chose that one for the CD back cover. But she insisted on a shopping list of touchups to it. I spent 4 hours working on that image removing blemishes, softening wrinkles, and even dentistry (hiding fillings). The resulting image ended-up being printed at 1x1 inches. :-/ It's here, in context: http://goo.gl/k7OKG I much preferred the guitarist, bassist and drummer's shots: no work at all besides cropping and resizing. :-) On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Collin Brendemuehl <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thoughts/critique: > #1 The pose is excellent. > #2 The chair color match is also good. > #3 And I like the directional light. Too often "lots of soft light" takes > away form the subject's character. > #4 The scarf works, but it might need moved just a little. And it seems > alone. Perhaps a hat in her hand? > #5 But she is too close to the wall. > #6 The horizontal axis is odd. Her position is fine, but photographer might > move to the right further and then turn the chair to expose the back just a > little more, placing her just a bit to the right side of the frame. It will > fill the image more. > > She also looks like a great candidate for a close-up. > > Sincerely, > > Collin Brendemuehl > "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" > -- Jim Elliott -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
