Maybe a little too flat, a little too deer-in-the-head lights. I think maybe it comes down to personal preference, of course, but I think such flat lighting works well on close-up head shots. Everything else seems to work great.
Jeff, this was taken in the late 90s. She was putting off a strong Dale Bozzio vibe during this brief shoot, but that's a reference lost on most of the people visiting this site.
I don't know I like it.. It brings me back and it has character. Ok, it's not like all the other 'cliche' shots. I would have cropped it a little more. As for the lighting, yes it's flat, but on the other hand, it works for the shot and the time it was taken.
I like the pose as well as the setting, very nicely done. I'm not a fan of the post with rivets in the fence-line, personally I would have moved a few inches to the left and framed it so you would have a seamless fence in the background. Which incidentally would have also removed those power-poles/towers from the composition which are currently top-left, I find them some what distracting because they break up the otherwise nice and clean background.
I suppose that could be resolved with a bit of cropping and Photoshopping, but I'm not sure I even had a computer when I took this. It appears that I scanned it in 1999. I have a portfolio of 16x20 prints, and I don't feel my subsequent digital work can stand up to it.
Maybe a little too flat, a little too deer-in-the-head lights. I think maybe it comes down to personal preference, of course, but I think such flat lighting works well on close-up head shots. Everything else seems to work great.
What year is this?
Jeff, this was taken in the late 90s. She was putting off a strong Dale Bozzio vibe during this brief shoot, but that's a reference lost on most of the people visiting this site.
I don't know I like it.. It brings me back and it has character. Ok, it's not like all the other 'cliche' shots. I would have cropped it a little more. As for the lighting, yes it's flat, but on the other hand, it works for the shot and the time it was taken.
I like the pose as well as the setting, very nicely done. I'm not a fan of the post with rivets in the fence-line, personally I would have moved a few inches to the left and framed it so you would have a seamless fence in the background. Which incidentally would have also removed those power-poles/towers from the composition which are currently top-left, I find them some what distracting because they break up the otherwise nice and clean background.
I suppose that could be resolved with a bit of cropping and Photoshopping, but I'm not sure I even had a computer when I took this. It appears that I scanned it in 1999. I have a portfolio of 16x20 prints, and I don't feel my subsequent digital work can stand up to it.