Senior Portraits

Why isn't she looking at the camera?

Other than that - watch the blown highlights on the shirt - may just be my monitor. Also, again, may just be my monitor, but it seems like they're a bit gray - I don't know how else to describe it.

Thanks for posting!

I think its just your monitor but I can see where youre talking about and they dont seem blown to me. Definitely dont seem grey either. But maybe its my monitor

anyway, even though she isnt looking at the camera, i think they are nice shots.

She should look at the camera.

I'd like to see more emphasis on her and less on the horses. Agree with having her look at the camera, too.

None of them are in focus..well maybe the horse in the 1st image..and her leg in the 2nd one.

Why do you call this "Senior Portraits" ? She looks junior to me, or is my understanding of the term wrong ?

HYBEagle wrote in post #10960674
Why do you call this "Senior Portraits" ? She looks junior to me, or is my understanding of the term wrong ?

Ive seen seniors that look like freshmen and freshmen that look like seniors. She very well could be a senior.

Knockout05 wrote in post #10960691
Ive seen seniors that look like freshmen and freshmen that look like seniors. She very well could be a senior.

I'm assuming they meant they don't understand our version of senior pics. He was expecting someone who is older

My bad, I just looked up "Senior portraits" on google. Not being a native North American I took the literal meaning of the term: portraits of senior citizen.

Oops. I see. Well she is senior in the school sense

urfastimfaster wrote in post #10959561
None of them are in focus..well maybe the horse in the 1st image..and her leg in the 2nd one.

I agree here. #1 looks like a lot of dodging burning going on in the face to lower the blown highlights.
Good try, however, I would re-shoot this and make her face, eyes, the main point of focus.

Same here! Less horse, more model , and more eye contact. Pay attention to composition and horizon lines. I would love to see #3 with the subject on the left side of the frame. Thanks for sharing.

I agree with everyone here, not enough emphasis on the model, blown highlights, a bit grey, most are either out of focus or seem to have motion blur, and I'm not sure if it's your lens or pp technique but there is a lot of chromatic aberration on the pictures with white horse reigns. I'm also on a laptop monitor so I could be wrong about that last bit. I do like the theme though and think you should give it another session.

How long was that lens for the seated poses? There seems to be a great deal of telephoto perspective compression that makes her legs appear much stubbier than they probably are. In the future, you might want to arrange the subject's in such poses so that they don't point bluntly into the lens (same with hands).

I agree with comments about putting more emphasis on the horse. However, whether there needs to be eye contact with the viewer depends on whether you actually want the subject to have a "relationship" with the viewer.

If the intention, for instance, is to show pensiveness or a demure attitude, perhaps you don't. For instance, if the model is wearing a sexy outfit you have to make an artistic choice of whether to heat it even more with direct eye contact or cool it down without direct eye contact.