Here's some pictures from my latest shoot with Dmitri and Desiree... mostly of Dmitri though... but as far as I'm concerned... good fucking shit. tell me what you think...
What kinda of camera did you use? I like the first one the best, because I like the look on her face and her coloring. It looks like she has an intersting tattoo on her chest...show it off next time? :)
Out of the last 3, the idea and subject are ok...but the framing is a little off on the first two of those 3. IE: The top of the head on the right is chopped off on the first, and on the second it probably would have been better to have a few more inches on the bottom and right of the pic. Also, they look a little overexposed...either that or the light is odd, and you're using a digicam, and digicams hae a tendancy to make brighter light look off. And, this is just a prefernce thing, but I think they'd have been cooler if the focus was on the reflection, not the real model.
Of the middle ones, where it's just the girl's face (I'm assuming that one is dimitri...?), the lighting is better for her skin, but the rest of the picture is way dark...she blends into the background, and that makes everything look flat. Also...the makeup makes her skin tone looked kinda scary in those. Not that she isn't a pretty girl or have nice skin, but the makeup in those colors looks odd on her. The last 3 or so of this portion of the set have a lot of negative space on the left...which might contain something, and might be much cooler framing, if the background wasn't so dark and everything the same color. Again, this part might be prefernce...but in studio work, I'm a big fan of softer, diffused, and possibly colored light (IE: a bunch of candles, or a lower-wattage bulb.) for color images. Brighter white-ish light is great for B&W, because it helps provide the contrast you need to get good texture in B&W, but in color...it just has a tendancy to make things look overexposed. (IMHO) Unless there is not really any background at all, or a white background. Then it looks simple and streamlined. But again...that part might very possibly just be personal opinion. :)
Sorry if the crits seem mean, it's not intended that way, but I'm used to art class crits...
I like the first one the best, because I like the look on her face and her coloring. It looks like she has an intersting tattoo on her chest...show it off next time? :)
Out of the last 3, the idea and subject are ok...but the framing is a little off on the first two of those 3. IE: The top of the head on the right is chopped off on the first, and on the second it probably would have been better to have a few more inches on the bottom and right of the pic. Also, they look a little overexposed...either that or the light is odd, and you're using a digicam, and digicams hae a tendancy to make brighter light look off. And, this is just a prefernce thing, but I think they'd have been cooler if the focus was on the reflection, not the real model.
Of the middle ones, where it's just the girl's face (I'm assuming that one is dimitri...?), the lighting is better for her skin, but the rest of the picture is way dark...she blends into the background, and that makes everything look flat. Also...the makeup makes her skin tone looked kinda scary in those. Not that she isn't a pretty girl or have nice skin, but the makeup in those colors looks odd on her. The last 3 or so of this portion of the set have a lot of negative space on the left...which might contain something, and might be much cooler framing, if the background wasn't so dark and everything the same color. Again, this part might be prefernce...but in studio work, I'm a big fan of softer, diffused, and possibly colored light (IE: a bunch of candles, or a lower-wattage bulb.) for color images. Brighter white-ish light is great for B&W, because it helps provide the contrast you need to get good texture in B&W, but in color...it just has a tendancy to make things look overexposed. (IMHO) Unless there is not really any background at all, or a white background. Then it looks simple and streamlined. But again...that part might very possibly just be personal opinion. :)
Sorry if the crits seem mean, it's not intended that way, but I'm used to art class crits...
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