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Comments & Critique Appreciated

Hi guys,

Just took these images last weekend. Retouched them myself.
Would love to get some feedback!

Thank so much!

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Love the hard light and brick texture, bottom one is very cool too, great lighting, sexy as well.

Thanks so much for the feedback Joseph! Really appreciate it!

Wow!

I agree, the hard light + brick is really something. At first, the harshness was kind of off-putting but it makes me study it more.

The 2nd shot, I assume, is overhead right? I love that you did that. The biggest takeaway here is that as the light falls off at the bottom of the frame, I do too. The angle of her right leg is nice, but as I look down further it falls apart in a way. The flipside is that in a way that forces me to come back to the top where there's great detail, mood, expression in her pose, hair, the light, the floor, etc etc. I'd probably play with a crop.

Hey James, thanks so much for taking the time to look at the image and provide feedback. It's quite a good point there, and thinking now, I could've easily used a fill light for the bottom. I do like the effect of the the sort of natural vignette, but wouldve probably looked better, had it been lit a bit more from the bottom as well. Good thing I did shoot a few cropped shots here as well. Ill be posting those soon as well

Gorgeous the light in the first image is a bit strong in the lower right though. For my eye it overwhelms her just a bit.

I like the backgrounds as well as the subject but i must say the lighting is a bit much on the first one the face is to bright and the second one is great the only thing i would do is tone the light on the back ground a little bit so its not a hard light maybe.