I got into photography massively a couple of months ago, now I have enrolled in an online college course and experimenting every chance I get, I'd never done headshot before but they really intrigue me and I really enjoyed taking this shot. So I'd love some feedback.
Nice soft light. I would pull her off the wall next time so it doesn’t make that dark shadow behind her. Then maybe add a background or hairlight. You may also want to retouch the dark area under her eyes.
That wicked thank you, I must admit I have been spending more time learning the ins and outs of using the camera and not so much time in the post processing side of things, only what I have worked out as I went along, thanks!
American photographers seem to love to cut off the scalp :-)) recently.
One step back and the complete head is framed [remember it is called head- shot ;-)]
The color balance is off - it is strongly green tinted, that might be due to a simple office monitor instead of a calibrated photo ones or a wrong color balance of the picture.
Are you shooting RAW or jpg out of cam?
Re. the framing.
Why put the lady directly at the wall?
That's the worst solution - avoid it - unless she interacts with the wall - by hand etc.
Let her stand 3 or 6 feet off and the wall dissolves nicely and now shadows behind her.
Wy using landscape mode for a headshot crop the scalp and have a massive bland boring white space on the right?
There's a format that in English is named Portrait, use it for such.
For a real good headshot, find a nice location and include it in your shot.
Such as here:
https://500px.com/photo/223586439/goosh-by-bernd-stoeckl?ctx_page=2&from...
or here the lady stood away from a simple photo wall paper.
https://500px.com/photo/191767395/veronika-1-by-bernd-stoeckl?ctx_page=4...
Best regards Bernd
To be honest... the main reason from her being so far over in the frame, is because this was an assignment piece for my qualification and experimenting with the third lines, but I appreciate it’s not conventional, also the space available for me doesn’t allow for me to be able to bring her that far away from the wall, but in all honesty I would never have thought to do that without both of these comments so in the future I’ll certainly bare that in mind, thankyou!
... and yes I am shooting RAW