I like the lighting and the coloring of these. Is she a newer model? I find myself wishing she wouldn't stoop and hunch over so much hiding her neck, she's lovely and it looks uncomfortable and also as if she's ashamed of dropping her shoulders and standing up straight. (That's possibly not the case but that's what her body language says to me in these photos)
Also, watch your masking around her in the first image. There's a dark / gray-ish halo around all of her in that picture but fortunately I don't see it in the others. The white cube in 5 and 6 looks dirty at the bottom and since it's white, that's the first place my eye went. The cropping in the last photo should be above the hem of the skirt, the tiny bit of visible leg is very distracting. Hope this helps!
Sennia Kyle Thanks so much for your time, I have learnt two things which will try and improve on my next project.For the masking --am still learning how retouch and so far I can see little improvement--am allover your profile and from the look of things--have got long way to catch up.
Two things I like to see in fashion photography is arms away from the body otherwise it makes the models look bigger than what they are and I like the models to look confident, to keep their heads up. I ask them to look above the camera when looking straight ahead.
Another rule of thumb for fashion is you have to shoot from the lowest possible angle to make them look taller. To me those are more portraits than fashion but very well executed portraits other than there's too much space above her head in some shots. You nailed the lighting.
Marc Lavergne Thanks so much for the insight---still learning about the fashion industry and am happy you have touched on how to pose the model and the rule of thumb about the fashion industry----do you have a link or somewhere you can suggest I can get more insight about this rules? I would love to read more about them and try to implement---your guidance will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
I like the lighting and the coloring of these. Is she a newer model? I find myself wishing she wouldn't stoop and hunch over so much hiding her neck, she's lovely and it looks uncomfortable and also as if she's ashamed of dropping her shoulders and standing up straight. (That's possibly not the case but that's what her body language says to me in these photos)
Also, watch your masking around her in the first image. There's a dark / gray-ish halo around all of her in that picture but fortunately I don't see it in the others. The white cube in 5 and 6 looks dirty at the bottom and since it's white, that's the first place my eye went. The cropping in the last photo should be above the hem of the skirt, the tiny bit of visible leg is very distracting. Hope this helps!
Sennia Kyle Thanks so much for your time, I have learnt two things which will try and improve on my next project.For the masking --am still learning how retouch and so far I can see little improvement--am allover your profile and from the look of things--have got long way to catch up.
Hi Antony, thank you for sharing your images!
Two things I like to see in fashion photography is arms away from the body otherwise it makes the models look bigger than what they are and I like the models to look confident, to keep their heads up. I ask them to look above the camera when looking straight ahead.
Another rule of thumb for fashion is you have to shoot from the lowest possible angle to make them look taller. To me those are more portraits than fashion but very well executed portraits other than there's too much space above her head in some shots. You nailed the lighting.
Hope this helps!
Marc Lavergne Thanks so much for the insight---still learning about the fashion industry and am happy you have touched on how to pose the model and the rule of thumb about the fashion industry----do you have a link or somewhere you can suggest I can get more insight about this rules? I would love to read more about them and try to implement---your guidance will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Unfortunately I don't know of any site in particular. One thing that helped me is hiring a professional model with experience and I've learned a lot.
Marc Lavergne Sure--I will do more research on this genre.