1st post 1st studio c&c to improve please

Hi 1st post on this forum and 1st studio shoot,model is my daughter and I'm looking for advice on how to improve these shots, in studio or PP, will be doing another shoot soon for prints so any advice good or bad
Thanks

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Not too shabby for a first timer. Most newbie photographers usually do what you have done in these images, namely flat lighting and static poses. Some people can handle reasonably flat lighting but few can handle static poses. Straight up and down is anathema in portrait lighting. LEAN that girl, tilt her head, twist that torso. She WILL feel strange. She will look good.

Benji

Thanks for the reply Benji
by flat lighting do you mean the power of the front two lamps being the smae or something totally different

pstewy wrote in post #8072245
Thanks for the reply Benji
by flat lighting do you mean the power of the front two lamps being the same?

Yes. If both the main light and the fill light are of equal power, the lighting will be flat. The main light is usually about twice as bright as the fill light is, so you will have shadows. Shadows add a 3-D look to the image.

Benji