What would you have done different?

Just came back from vacation and I took a few quick shots while I was out there.

It looks good to me and she loves the shot but something seems a little off
Whats right and whats wrong with it?
HELP!!!

I would have had her looking at you..She looks very "tight" in her pose..a tad more relaxed would have given her a far better feel.

BTW, she is beautiful.

I agree. She doesn't look very relaxed, and it would be good to have eye contact, but what stood out to me first was that I'd prefer more space on the right and less on the left. Is this the full image or can you crop differently?

Jmark11207 wrote in post #10701237
Just came back from vacation and I took a few quick shots while I was out there.

It looks good to me and she loves the shot but something seems a little off
Whats right and whats wrong with it?
HELP!!!

It is a very unfortunate pose. while we tend to think of long legs being elegant, this shot misses that sense of elegance by a long way. It is easy to see why... let your eye follow along the back of the thigh until it gets to the step the lady is sitting upon. The flattened bottom and then the drop down to the back of the thigh by means of an awkward looking angle where we would not expect to see one, is partly responsible for the awkward look.

The stiffness of the extended leg is accentuated by the awkwardly held body and the extended shoulder joint, ending in a hand that appears to be holding the whole of the body weight. There is nothing to suggest that the pose is very relaxing and that creates some tension in the image. The observer cannot help but be uncomfortable in sympathy for the model. Any prop can be used to support a model, with the proviso that it does not put the body into any shape which looks unnatural to the human eye.

I don't think that too much can be done to rescue this image because the pose cannot be corrected in post. The skin tone looks to be reasonable and the background is dark, which is to be expected where you have used an on-camera flash unit. You possibly could have illuminated the background by using bounced flash from the ceiling. A slow shutter speed and a large aperture would also have let in more ambient light... while letting the flash make the actual exposure.

I would say more of the same, I do not like a total profile of the face when the body is doing so much, the pose is a bit awkward but you may could have pulled it off if you was shooting at her 6 or 7 instead of her 9 and she was looking at you. Not real keen on the all the dark background picture right. Just not a very flattering background.

I do think the quality is good, the concept was there and you def had the right model.

Keep up the great efforts and post back with more.

I too agree... She looks very tight... If she were to look more relaxed and natural, this would be an awesome shot... Go back on vacation and try again

Thank you Flo ill pass that along to her

Q-Man this shot IS a slight crop. Here is a crop the way you suggested

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Redirected to error image by FLICKR

the pose screams 'body builder.' If that's what she's looking for, ok. To me it doesn't look very femanine.

dave

You will learn (well I have) to take shots at different angles and FL on purpose, even if it's not the shot you have in your mind at that exact second especially on location. I did a shoot with a young female almost two weeks ago and one of the best shots, and her favorite, was a tight zoomed shot I did as part of taking multiple shot on purpose that I normally wouldn't have planned out.

Here is the shot as it was took. It was a crop that I normal don't do. I don't cut off heads and arms lol but just to show that since you have a digital camera it pays to take as many shots as you can from different angles and zooms

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Byte size: ZERO | PHOTOBUCKET ERROR IMAGE