Portraits Critique & Review

ChityWest

Here are 4 more portrait shots for critique and review if anyone has the time :

Eyes Closeup

http://www.deviantart.com/view/33809332/

Laughing

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33809856/

Standing Portrait

http://www.deviantart.com/view/33811072/

Colour Portrait (bw one was on before)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33811285/

elven

Don't have too much time to make comments on them just now but I did want to say that the last one I think is better in colour, it's much softer.

Flicking through I'm very impressed They are nice and clean and striking, and you've caught some natural looking expressions so you've obviously built up a rapport with the model, it's worked very well.

peepingtom

i cant give much technical critisism. because i wouldnt know where to start to be honest, but my opinion on them is thet they are really, really good!!

Zombrex

ChityWest wrote:

Here are 4 more portrait shots for critique and review if anyone has the time :

Eyes Closeup

http://www.deviantart.com/view/33809332/

Laughing

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33809856/

Standing Portrait

http://www.deviantart.com/view/33811072/

Colour Portrait (bw one was on before)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33811285/

Your studio lighting was too strong, you have lost definition in the faces, and the shadows are too harsh. Maybe that was the effect you were going for, but I find it a bit distracting.

Apart from that they are very nice, very natural set-up, not possed like a lot of portrait shots.

Of course I will need these girls phone numbers to confirm these opinions ...

Zillah

Ah, "Diffuse Glow", makes a lot of pictures that bit more striking. Of course it can also lead to complaints like those from Wicknight above.

I'm quite a fan of it myself, but its too easy to spot once you know it. They're still very nice photos though. The last one could be framed a little better, the outer thin boarder is a bit too long and high, ot not wide enough.

ChityWest

Thanks all for the comments - some valid points there. Not sure the studio light was too strong on all of them - on one maybe but that was part of the effect I was trying to achieve (having the model stand so close to the studio lighting that she could lean back on it !).

The diffuse effect is used but in different ways to try and achieve different affects - I would say its a 50/50 % success rate from my point of view considering the result I was aiming for.

PS Wicknight your not the first person to ask for her number ! Btw it was the one girl all taken on the same day.

daithi666

Really good photos. I like the first one because of her very fair and clear skin contrasting with the eyes and hair but one distraction is the squares in her eyes. But very good otherwise!