C&C portrait

[george m w]

http://www.wacaser.com/misc/potn/GU2E0172_ls_sft_re.jpg
Posted this in another thread on the forum and got no comments....so I can't tell if that's bad or good ! :D
Comments on lighting, posing and overall effect please. Thanks.

[deathcake]

I think it's good. Lighting works, pose seems natural enough, skin doesn't look overprocessed. Not 100% sure if I like the bars in the background. WB looks warm to me, maybe just personal preference. Model seems to be leaning her head forward a bit, which gives you a good angle on the face, but a bit unflattering on the chin.

Here's a quick change of WB and a bit more contrast, I am not sure if it looks better this way. See what everyone else thinks, since I am still a noob and can't even dream of producing anything this good.

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5391/gu2e0172lssftre2nf.jpg

[george m w]

DC,
Thanks for the comments and for taking the time to play around with the WB.

[cololeo]

Very nice. The hair separation is what makes it look good. The WB is much less important.

P.S. I like the first, but that's just me.

[deathcake]

Very nice. The hair separation is what makes it look good. The WB is much less important.

P.S. I like the first, but that's just me.

Haha, I just looked back at it and I think I like the original more as well. Warmer colour seems to work better =D

[tonydee]

#1: skin looks very processed to me, eyes a bit milky. It's quite a tall image, combined with a downward angle on the subject and the converging lines in the background, it looks a bit "cramped" to me somehow.

I prefer the edit above... more punchy, less "honey-coated" in colours.

Cheers,
Tony

[george m w]

Thanks for the comments guys. And yes Tony, looking back at it, I think I over did it on the skin softening, and that was part of why I wanted to post it up this way. She liked it, and so did her mother....and it seems the trend now is to do quite a lot of skin smoothing. I printed some out from this shoot, and the above amount of skin smoothing is definitely too much at print ( IMO )....but again, she liked it. I did see that the smoothing effect was greater on the print than it appears on the monitor, so I learned I have to back it off some more on a file going to print. It's all so subjective.
Thanks again for the input from all of you.

[rockfordhx]

Like everything except for the pose. Personally I would have liked to have her body and head turned more towards the lens.

[Damian75]

Really nice shot, like the lighting the pose and the warm tone not thrilled with the skin processing it is just lacking texture not sure if you used a blurring layer or it's just the web compression the only other thing is I don't like that the catchlight fills the entire pupil but I'm just nick picking :)