Portraits with Marie

Hello guys !!

I'm pretty new here, I'm a french IT student, I'm 18 and I like photography

this is a couple of picture from my FIRST shooting with a model, so please be tolerant !


They are non-photoshopped pictures, only some Lightroom settings on the Raw.


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Technically, your exposures look correct. I like the single head shot best because the background is more muted (decent bokeh). Working with a model can be a challenge. Attention to details in posing, how the hair and clothing is arranged, what kind of makeup (or not, as case may be) is applied(and for what kind of light)--all matter.
Some of this can be adjusted or fixed in post-process. But in the last image the girl has a tired look and in a couple of the images I would have wanted her to bring her chin up or out a tiny bit to avoid an unflattering line.
Hopefully there will be better critiques coming. This is off the top of my head.

Thanks,
as I said this is my first shooting with a "model" ^^

she has a lot of experiment compared to me !

I wasn't really comfortable to direct her, or even to make her laught

but it'll come with experiment I think (and I hope) ! that was a really really nice first experience, and I want to do it again as soon as possible

And yeah that's true that she was a bit tired this day :/


Thank you very much for your review advaitin

Were you paying or did she volunteer?
Try looking at the glamor pages to see what clothing is supposed to do when worn. A shirt can be pulled down to get rid of wrinkles. The pose can avoid gaps between clothes and arm. Little details you can pick up on.

These are scans of old photos I took as a young photographer starting out. We all do the same things at first.

Sorry, I meant to put this one in, not the head shot. This was to show the pulling down of a shirt.

advaitin wrote in post #16343785
Were you paying or did she volunteer?

I volunteer, so did she


thanks for all your piece of advice man

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