More Model shots for c & c

Morlar

Here are some more studio model shots for c & c









The original sized ones are here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerardkenny/

Thanks for checking.

Calina

Top one would be the best in my opinion.

If I might comment (please don't kill me!!!) I don't quite get the point of the other shots. Are you aiming for something akin to the glossy magazine I read in the plane yesterday? Fashion? Product selling...Life pages in the Sindo magazine? I'm not absolutely clear what the objective of the shots are...If you're working with models I wonder if you shouldn't have a clear remit of what you want to achieve with the photographs.

I'd also add that I think the lighting in the three-framer is a bit intermittant.

I realise that this is not, per se, my general style of photography and so might be missing something really obvious...so help me here, please.

Fajitas!

I'll go into better depth of critism in a while, but I really think the triptych needs to blend together either much better or further apart.

mikeanywhere

Fajitas! wrote:

the triptych needs to blend together either much better or further apart.

Thats what I said, do like the shots, well done Gerard!!

thebaz

i'll bury my hatchet , although you mighn't want my c & c , for what its worth , i like 2 , 4 and 6 .
4 is my fav , but 1 , 3 and 5 don't do it for me .
B.

minikin

No 1 has potential (crop out the girl on the right, I've seen better noses in a rugby scrum)

Scoual

No 1 is my fave, really nice, i could see it in a mag.
No 2 : don t like the angle you too as she looks smaller than she must be..although it works much better with the following ones, probably the way she was posing...
and last one is really nice but come on! you could have asked her to cross her legs or positioned yourself even more to her right (don t you watch american next top model )

and what about the other model ? she seemed to have a nice facial expression..

Fajitas!

Now!


First off, I agree with Calina, I'd like to know what the shots were for? Were they portfolio shots? Shots to show off some lovely ladies? etc If there isn't a purpose, that's grand too.

I'd have to agree with cropping out the young lady on the right in the first one, but not for her noses sake. Her leg being cut off is quite distracting, as is her face being more burnt out than the other models. However, the other model does look quite comfortable in that that position. a crop & some burning could make this shot.

The second shot is great, but I would have reflected a bit more light onto the darker sde of her face - her eye is popping out a bit much. Other than that, great shot. Did you apply any blurs in post processing?

The triptych is great, but they need more variance in each frame. Personally, I think injecting some different colours into the background could really make them stand out. I might also try playing with the lens correction filter to get them all at a similar angle?

The fourth one is again, great. Really nice posing. She looks comfortable. I'd try get the light a bit calmer on her face, and burn her knickers a bit more. I think it might make them a bit more subtle...

Good work all in all though. Moving onto your flickr now!

Glowing

I can't help thinking that 2 would be better cropped in close to her face and arm ....

Morlar

Thanks for commenting - the crop on the first one was intentional - I tried different versions - standard and so on and came to that one after thinking about it for a while.

Possibly it works better at a different resolution where the frame is filled - or maybe not.

Calina - no worries, some people approach portraiture with an idea of - 'we have to have a purpose here', some greater goal - in reality these were portaits intended to capture something of the model in that setting on that day.

Having said that these were taken at an organised studio outing where i wasn't in full control of either posing the models or the lighting - it was more a matter of going with the flow and seeing what you come up with. So - nope there was no pre-conceived plan of 'i need to get x shot' or mimic x magazine.
That seems to be the approach of a lot of portrait photographers and its fine if your trying to sell clothes or something but it wouldn't be my approach - at least not all the time. The triptych was actually a bit of an afterthought - I processed the 3 pics seperately then thought I would put them together - the thoughts of blending backgrounds for an off the cuff kind of shot seemed a bit overboard - but i can see how blended backgrounds would look more fluid and natural.

Thanks again for checking/commenting.