My daughter, the Senior

My girl is getting ready to graduate, so I thought I'd share some of her portraits. I tried to do the full 4-season, but we got almost no snow this winter (VERY odd for New Hampshire) and she's not much of a winter gal, anyway, so that's fine. She loves warm weather, sunshine, pink, arts-and-crafts, her cat, and anything girlie. Of course, I had to highlight her "princess" side, but her personality is anything but. She's my shy, reluctant model and, that being the case, we were quite happy to get these. I am still working on them and will share more later. CC is welcome and ask me anything.

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Very nice set, Kristen! She's beautiful. My favorites are 1 and 2 for the compositions and the poses.

Did you use any fill light? When I look at the catchlights, I only see what appears to be sky (and probably you in 3). Yet the light in 1, especially, seems perfect and even, as if you had just a bit of supplemental light. I just don't see anything that would suggest it reflected in her eyes. Did you expose it that way, enhance in post, or both? There's a pro photographer, Dani Diamond, who does almost all of his work with available light, and it works, but yours just seems a bit brighter.

Beautifull set!!! Number 2 is my favourite. Great work on the posing and use of light.

Lovely photos Kristin.
Very sharp detail, lovely colours and backgrounds.
And of course she's a beautiful young woman, very photogenic.

Well done.
Dusty

mathogre wrote in post #17990873
Very nice set, Kristen! She's beautiful. My favorites are 1 and 2 for the compositions and the poses.

Did you use any fill light? When I look at the catchlights, I only see what appears to be sky (and probably you in 3). Yet the light in 1, especially, seems perfect and even, as if you had just a bit of supplemental light. I just don't see anything that would suggest it reflected in her eyes. Did you expose it that way, enhance in post, or both? There's a pro photographer, Dani Diamond, who does almost all of his work with available light, and it works, but yours just seems a bit brighter.

Hi Graham and thanks so much! I did not use any other light source for this set -- all natural light. There was open sky in front of her, which does great for fill. These were also earlier in the day, pre-"Golden Hour," so just brighter light.

tatony333 wrote in post #17990913
Beautifull set!!! Number 2 is my favourite. Great work on the posing and use of light.

Thanks so much! That is my favorite, too, but she loves the one with her cat.

Dusty wrote in post #17991003
Lovely photos Kristin.
Very sharp detail, lovely colours and backgrounds.
And of course she's a beautiful young woman, very photogenic.

Well done.
Dusty

Thank you! She's a bit hard on herself, but I tell her that she really is photogenic, too.

Great work!

Beautiful daughter and great job on the photos.

well done! great set

Lovely set! I really like the one with her cat.

She is beautiful. Her eyes just draw me in. Great pictures.

AZ Pix wrote in post #17991269
Great work!

ready to snap wrote in post #17992309
Beautiful daughter and great job on the photos.

SparkyPhotoAZ wrote in post #17992502
well done! great set

johndoorley wrote in post #17992609
Lovely set! I really like the one with her cat.

tyler1 wrote in post #17992801
She is beautiful. Her eyes just draw me in. Great pictures.

Thanks so much, everyone!

Well done, Dad . . .

Beautiful young lady and beautiful shots.

Beautiful daughter and I love your work!

I'd love to see a full length version of the dress.

Thanks so much, everyone!

Atsilverstein, if you meant the pink one, I have this. :