My FIRST photoshoot. Comments welcome.

[joroboto]

I just had my first photoshoot last weekend. Here are some sample pix. He's a solo artist named Shane Henry. Please let me know your thoughts. Unless you're an idiot:D
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/joroboto/fa05a9bb.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/joroboto/IMG_1755-01normcopy.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/joroboto/IMG_1761-01normcopy.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/joroboto/IMG_1875.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/joroboto/IMG_2049.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/joroboto/IMG_2109.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/joroboto/IMG_2163.jpg

[joroboto]

I haven't processed all of these yet by the way.

[amonline]

The second one's cool... but they all look a little 'posed'. Still, good job for the first time.

[grego]

Good job for a first time, but I hope this is helpful to you.

#1 - too much spacing between the guitar and him. You have a lot of crotch action going on from that angle. You could have brought up the guitar to block that and mixed it in more.

#2 - has the idea of 1, of bringing up the guitar. But I think you should have gone in more on the guitar, where his hands meet and look towards his face/eyes. But if we were to keep this type setup, you'd still want to move up as to avoid the knee. Although you could crop that out.

#3 - the wacky lighting is tough. I think you need to be wider, but the background wouldn't like that(as shown by behind his head). Re-consider from another part of the stairs to get wider but without as much busy background.

#4 - i get you wanted Hendrix in it, but the screen door takes away. Now you could do that looking up type of photo in a vertical setup with him holding his guitar or something and allow Hendrix to peek in. That would kinda give that same idea. Right now, you have a lot of useless area. It also needs to be corrected in post processing(or expose better from the start).

#5 - another one that needs corrected exposure. If you can get the nice soft light with a good exposure it should work. Put the camera up to his face if you don't have spot metering, and you can get an idea where you should have your exposure(do this in M of course). You also cut very close to his hand, where action is going on. So either you go vertical or you zoom in more, which means the guitar part has to be eliminated in the form its in.

#6 - You have all this extra space, that you could have filled him in if you went vertical orientation. Right now you crop most of him out and his arms go off screen, which the photo leads you to. As of now, it allows for the background to get more attention, and I wouldn't say behind him has much of an interesting aspect to it.

#7 is fine, if you just go for upper body, but the way you have it now, you lose his hands again. Watch the frame. If you do this, you just want the top part of chest and face. If you want the lower part, you need to keep his hands in this type of photo, especially the right since you see most of the arm and then his hand goes out.

[CAycock]

I admit, I am not anything close to a professional but I've read a crapload and been critiqued a lot so I'll point out what I noticed.

First off, I love the framing of the pictures. Very creative. I could picture a few of these on a cd album very easily.

Grego offered some very good advice and I would take them under consideration. But I think you most definitely need some fill flash on these. #1,2, & 3 in particular. He has some very harsh shadows on his face that could be eliminated with a tad bit of flash.

The only other change I would suggest it that you frame #6 differently. I think it would be much a more interesting photograph if he wasn't in the dead center of the shot. And plus it would eliminate the plain wall on his left.

But, more than anything, I love your selection of scenes.

Great Work!

[Flo]

I actually like 5 the best.looks very "movie" to me..the most natural of the series.

[Robert165]

1- very good
2- a little cliche but good
3- good
4- good
5- very good
5- ok
6- ok