First senior male

Did my first senior shoot with a male student. I struggled a bit with posing since I never shot a teenage boy.

C and C welcomed.

anyone?

You did a great job. I'm sure he's very happy with them. My only nitpick would be on the last two. The BG is a bit over bearing with regards to lighting. (more with the last image but both have it a bit) With that I mean the BG is brighter then your subject. More light on the subject to even that out would be warranted and would keep the eye from being drawn to the BG. And again this is just a nitpick, but some more fill on the eyes in one and two would turn these good image into great images. This probably really only stands out to me because it's an issue I'm trying to resolve with my portraits as well. It's taken me a couple of years (yes I'm a slow learner) to convince myself that great images revolve around light.

Thanks Warren for the comment and I totally agree with you, I wish I had used a shallower dof on these. I also wanted to go someplace more "manly" railroad tracks etc. but mom wanted to do the park setting. Its hard to believe I photography his Bar Mitzvah five years ago.

Here is one more that I liked from the day.

Hi Barbara. I like the shots in general, and the poses are great. I notice he showed no open smiles, is it because he wanted a more "serious" look and just wanted a closed-mouthed grin? Also, the shots seem a bit flat to me, and a bit soft. Any special reason you used such slow shutter speeds? With your gear, I would have thought they'd be crisper. Maybe it's just the online translation that's causing that though.

Hi Wallace, He does not like to smile but I did manage to get a few. The slow shutter speeds is probably my inexperience. lol I have been having a problem with the 85 especially trying to hold that beast steady (I have fibromyalgia so it makes it more difficult) I am slowly getting better at it. Also, these don't have much PP done to them I need a good tutorial to make my images "Pop". Thanks for the critique.