My Daughter - 002

beautiful daughter and lighting!

She is beautiful and my, my what lovely hair she has. The lighting is great.

Very nicely done. Lighting is exactly what it should be to highlight her beauty. Bravo.

Very well done. However, I think it would have a bit more impact with a different crop. Currently its 12 x 14 which certainly isn't standard. Since she is looking into the frame I would add more space on the right side of the photo and reduce the space at the top a bit. But I suppose it also depends on how it was originally framed and whether you made allowance for a wider crop.

How's this?
There was really no room to expand to the right or left, but I made room with a little PP.
I didn't check/insure proper printing ratios or anything though, just eyeballed it.

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I'm going to chime in at the risk of being flamed.
First off, I like your second crop.
Second, her strap is twisted...small issue.
Third, it's obvious you took some time setting up and making this a true portrait instead of a snapshot, so I'd change her outfit to something solid and possibly darker.
Fourth....um...While the lighting is good, I somehow got a strange feeling that this pose is intended for an older person.
I don't want to open a can of worms here...I know you said she's your daughter and I know this was done for purely artistic purposes. But this pose, I just don't know. If you had a "sexiness" meter from 1 to 10, poses with girls this age should be at a 0. This pose is simulating poses done of much older women, done to raise up the level on that meter.
I hope you don't take this wrong...it's really a nice photo.
I am writing this because I did something fairly similar. I was learning lighting, and took a rembrandt-lit photo of my daughter about the same age as yours. I liked it, and looked at it from a technical standpoint. It was a big breakthrough in my lighting technique, and I just happened to use the only model I had available that day...
Well, after a few people viewed it I heard comments like "she looks so old there", or "she's so mature" and it really made me look at it as THEY saw it, not as I was seeing it.
Anyways, sorry for the ramble.

ootsk wrote in post #12190148
I'm going to chime in at the risk of being flamed.
First off, I like your second crop.
Second, her strap is twisted...small issue.
Third, it's obvious you took some time setting up and making this a true portrait instead of a snapshot, so I'd change her outfit to something solid and possibly darker.
Fourth....um...While the lighting is good, I somehow got a strange feeling that this pose is intended for an older person.
I don't want to open a can of worms here...I know you said she's your daughter and I know this was done for purely artistic purposes. But this pose, I just don't know. If you had a "sexiness" meter from 1 to 10, poses with girls this age should be at a 0. This pose is simulating poses done of much older women, done to raise up the level on that meter.
I hope you don't take this wrong...it's really a nice photo.
I am writing this because I did something fairly similar. I was learning lighting, and took a rembrandt-lit photo of my daughter about the same age as yours. I liked it, and looked at it from a technical standpoint. It was a big breakthrough in my lighting technique, and I just happened to use the only model I had available that day...
Well, after a few people viewed it I heard comments like "she looks so old there", or "she's so mature" and it really made me look at it as THEY saw it, not as I was seeing it.
Anyways, sorry for the ramble.

Thanx for your comments and advice!
You are absolutely right, it could be considered a pose for an older person.
Wardrobe...I was lucky to get her to pose at all, so I wasn't concerned with her wardrobe. She was not in a great mood and was not the easiest model to work with this night. But you are right about the noisy attire!

Truthfully all I was interested in was the lighting on her face, hair and shoulders. I set the lights up and told her what I was trying to achieve and she selected the pose (probably from the posing PDF we were looking at the other day).

Only my second time using flash/strobes of any kind so i'm kind of taking baby steps.
I've certainly very much to learn...details details details!!! ALL of these comments and advice are what helps!