red carpet fashion concept shoot at mansion

I shot this last week at the old Govenor's Mansion. This was the first time I had a hairstylist, MUA, and fashion consultant. C&C if you'd like.

Thanks for looking

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These would convince me to buy that dress! Lovely!

Nicely done - would have been great if you could have got more light onto the background. Go easy on the skin smoothing

this is fashion photography? Looks like a portrait session. this doesnt say "new york" "london" "paris" or "milan" it kind of says midwestern small town pageant winner.

the styling isnt fashion concept its prom or pageant

4 is my favorite.
In my opinion on photos 1 and 6 her hair looks sharp but her face is out of focus or perhaps overprocessed.

Great work

great set

The last one is the seller to me . Looks very professional and love the way u focused on the dress..Great set of photos ayway.

Thanks for the comments everyone. I do agree with with the back lighting. I had brought a 3rd strobe and some gels; I easily could have done that.

Very nice set... I really like #3, but I find the light rays at the right distracting. #4 is another winner.

I like em but I agree with Rai33, lighting up the background would have been nice.

Keith

i love #1, good set!

i noticed the floor is dirty. i wonder if there's anything you can do about it next time

TroodoN wrote in post #9924229
4 is my favorite.
In my opinion on photos 1 and 6 her hair looks sharp but her face is out of focus or perhaps overprocessed.

Great work

I agree... #1 when I first looked at it I looked at the hair..

Great shots!

sebr wrote in post #9925112
Very nice set... I really like #3, but I find the light rays at the right distracting. #4 is another winner.

Thank you sir. I personally liked the flair. It's subjective but I appreciate your opinion.

banpreso wrote in post #9926683
i love #1, good set!

i noticed the floor is dirty. i wonder if there's anything you can do about it next time

Thanks. I cloned up the floor a lot in PP, it was a lot worse in the originals. The wind was 10-15 MPH so cleaning up the floor would have just gotten dirty again in 1 minute. Both of my assistants were holding the strobes from blowing away. I felt bad for the guy that had to hold the 64" PLM

isabellabrown wrote in post #9942046
I like both first and second one. You did a wonderful and awesome job on this photo shoot!! It looks like you are having fun on here and doing very well.

I appreciate it. Yes all of us had a great time, I wish the property people gave us more time to shoot. We only had 70 mins of shooting time.

Chillybanana wrote in post #9925434
I like em but I agree with Rai33, lighting up the background would have been nice.

Keith

I'll have to do that next time I shoot there. For sure

A_ADAMS wrote in post #9942925
I agree... #1 when I first looked at it I looked at the hair..

Great shots!

Thanks, I did look back at the originals and the eyes are sharp. It could be the color of her hair making it look sharper. I'll burn it and see if it helps.

(since you asked, Moss)
I'll nit pick here
To me these have everything to make some incredible images. Awesome location, awesome wardrobe and a beautiful model that looks like a Dysney character. These photos could have been up there with Annie Leibovitz's Dysney series. Really, no kidding.
But what killed them is your lack of experience and that's not really a bad thing. Experience can be gained.
I think the poses of the model are goofy, since she is having that cute grin going on on most of them. Smiling in a fairy tale setting is nice, but really this is not the kind of smiling... there's no mystery no these, or.. artistism if you will...
I won't go into technical details, because there are quite a few things that are a little off, but these are not doing it for me, because you couldve done so much here and I just don't see it.

lol

can't you tell I am watching American Idol?