Melissa and Jess

I had two shots today...kind of draining. Glad the third one was cancelled

The first two are pictures of Jess.

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I agree about focus being hard at night. A trick I have been doing recently is getting the model or someone to shine a flashlight on their faces until I can get focus. I feel the focus is all right in all of these but on my monitor they all look a tad underexposed by one stop.

I like the 3rd and 4th the best.
For shot 4 I believe if you cropped it to disinclude the OOF railing closer to the model - it would flow better. Tight crop from the bottom left > to the model. If you can visualize what i mean


I don't really like the rest of them very much, in 2 the shadows are too hard on the face and distracting. #1 is very busy, underexposed, don't see half of her face and the background is unflattering.

i like 3 & 4.

The first 2 should have been deleted. Way to many things wrong. Background, exposure, distortion just to name a few.
The last 2 just dont show enough quality to be considered portraits. If you had to keep one of them then the 3rd would be the best.
This is how we learn. Keep shooting.

Thanks for the comments!

Both shots were really hard. For the first girl, I had my second flash laying on the grass and pointed a reflector that is supposed to be hand held. For the second girl, I had darkness....

Good learning experience I guess. I didn't realize how hard it would be