Here's a concept I tried with just a model and a door. Was able to setup my lights and backdrop to create a huge back lit softbox. I love how the light works great at setting the mood and showing the features of her body. The model Reina was great in posing, which allowed me to just focus on the captures.
The light is nice and the pose is good. I would have liked to see a version with her looking into your lens, as well.
When you say "focus on the captures" what does that mean? Do you mean the camerawork? I keep reading this word captures and it is a mystery to me. It also seems to belittle what we do. We don't just capture photographs, certianly not when we set up lights and come up with unusual and contolled situations. This is making photographs, much more than capturing them, a much more skilled process and should be upheld rather than demeaned by us all.
My other bete noir in modern parleance is "shooters". Same logic, really. We make our images, an artistic, creative and positive work, and a shooter is a gunman who destroys rather than makes, with no creative or life afirming end product. But not being American, I have no empathy with gun-culture and certainly see no parallels between shooters and those who practice the art and craft of photogrpahy.
I know this all will likely sound pretentious to some and especially to people who love modern American language and or their guns.
Back to the above. Not an easy shot to craft, with the balance between the highlight areas and the shadow areas to control and distracting details from the bright space to avoid. I think it is well handled but I would have preferd to see a bit more floor space to see the shadows of her shoes and legs, which I feel would have added an extra dimention.
This is a skillfully crafted photograph, which far more appropriatly respects your work and skill than, "good capture", don't you think.
Sorry for the sermon but I am getting old and although I am impressed with so many young people I have run out of tolerance for the crassness of the poluting effects of modern youth culture and the appaling way so many young people abuse the English language and have no idea how awful it all is. Then the rest of us tend to get infected, which is the big issue.
Thanks for the comments, I'm always in favor of criticism. What I mean to say by "focus on the captures" is that its nice when a model can move and pose on her own without direction allowing me to just take the photos rather than posing the model.
I didn't have the model face forward because I new it would be a silhouette, I did take some shots with her looking at me, but I didn't like how I couldn't really see her face. With her face away from the lens I was able to appreciate more of her features on the face.
If my post sounded to demean or belittle any photographers, that was not my intent. My apologies if it came off that way.
My point was many of us use these terms which demean the work of the photographer in question. In this case you demean yourself or at least your work. I was just pointing out that it is easy to use language that belittles what we do, whereas using other terms or words might uphold our work. Underselling ourselves and other photogrpahers' skills is bad for us all.
I do not consider that you just captured this image, you made it, with imagination, creativity, physical work, time and skill. You sell yourself short desribing your input, even part of the process, as capturing, and so many of us use this word, and similar, about our own and other people's work, without even realising how it is demeaning when used to describe any photography beyond and above pure snapshot point, press and prey camera use.
No appology needed. I know my views will sound like the ravings of an old man to many younger people, who by definition have not seen what has happened to the profession over the last few decades, so do not appreciate that we need to maintain a professional front, like other professions do, so we all get the respect we deserve. We do so much more than shoot and capture, we design, style, light, compose, address a plethora of technical issues in camera, with lighting and in software. Capture, I don't think so.
I still think a shot of her looking into the lens might look good, less obvious if you will than looking into the light. I know it would have her face, very dark/black but there we are. It is an art so different people see and feel differently.
Keep it up.