New Model: Ashley... Please C+C

This is a new model i am assisting. she is building a portfolio, and i am free to experiment as much as i want to get her shots for it.

we found out she is like 6 weeks or so prego, so her modeling may suffer in the short term, but I got some good ones.

Please offer any C+C or help, or advice, or creative ideas i can do with her. (no nude at all, not even tasteful or implied :cry

Thanks

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very nice model. Great shots too. Nice lighting on #2. You lose some of her torso on #1 (at least on my monitor).

#1 could do with a tighter crop.

Very nice model indeed, there is something bothering me about her hair, i don't know what exactly though. It doesn't have much volume, did she not wash it before this shot?

The first pic was actually with my assistant holding a fan at her chin... i tried to get that hair up and active... We were actually fighting her hair allday, with it falling in her face and such.

Anyone care to do a rough crop on #1? I would love you to do it... cut my frame off, and show me a great crop.

I really need to do closer crops, it looks more "modelly" i really am more of a traditional portrait person so loosening up and shooting artsy is something i am working on.

i had a try:

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That's the crop I was thinking

but not the PP- too much red.orange in her face on my monitor. Maybe it's just me. I like the tones on the OP shot.

ok, might be me, my laptop screen tricks me all the time (on the OP shot, the colors look a bit dull)

Thanks for the crop, but i took that exact pic "in camera" I found it to be somewhat blocky and basic.

I tried to get her shoulder out of there, and that didnt look right either.

Great start.