Teresa's Headshot 4 your C&C

Trever1t · Jun 16, 2015

_POR3165-Edit by Bill Grayson, on Flickr

Shot at f1.8/85mm, I should've perhaps closed down a bit more?

JacaRanda · Jun 16, 2015

Beautiful, and yes I agree with closing down a bit.

Derrel · Jun 17, 2015

A little bit more DOF would change the picture a bit...I actually think there's too much out of focus skin on the chest and shoulders, which is drawing attention away from the face and that beautiful jaw- and cheek shapes she is blessed with. I think it's always a personal decision on how much one has in-focus sharply...when the out of focus areas become dominant, to me it feels like the photo is not "revealing", but is instead "obscuring"... also, and this might just be a personal matter, but I don't like the green color fringing that most fast, non-apochromatic lenses have on the outlines of strongly OOF things at their widest three f/stops...the green line fringing her neck and shoulders is something I see as a wide-aperture hallmark of a lot of the short, fast teles.

There's no right, or wrong answer that everybody can agree on...my preference is to want to see "the whole personage" more so than have just the eyes and frontal plane of the face in crisp focus, but lose the chin, and lose the chest and neck to a sort of "obscuring" out of focus-ness. I think that dark upper right corner is making her head look angled a bit oddly, and the background vines are in need of a bit of a burn-down, especially the curved one on the left, and I'd like to see those white sleeves (?) a bit darker or highlight recovered. You've refined your methods and shooting technique so well that when it comes to offering "C&C" on your photos, it's mostly about splitting hairs and very subtle stylistic differences or options or minor,minor variations...

All opinions are my own....others may very well have very different opinions, and I'd expect they would.

JimMcClain · Jun 17, 2015

I agree stopping down a bit might be a benefit, but it's still a very beautiful picture and a very beautiful model.

Trever1t · Jun 17, 2015

Thank you all, and Derrel for your in depth critique and kind words!

Donde · Jun 17, 2015

On my screen only her hair is in focus. Facial features such as eyes, nose and lips are out.

Trever1t · Jun 17, 2015

Donde said:
On my screen only her hair is in focus. Facial features such as eyes, nose and lips are out.

Adjust your screen, yes, it's a very shallow dof and if you read above I note that

FITBMX · Jun 20, 2015

You instantly look right at her eyes! I love it!!!

DarkShadow · Jun 21, 2015

She's is a beauty :pumpformylove:

Nice.

acparsons · Jun 21, 2015

The moles are distracting. If they were in focus, it would enhance her details, out of focus they just look like dust spots. A tad more headroom would be good. The hair covering her left eye is distracting from her eye when you enlarge the photo. F1.8 is a little soft and light her skin tone makes it look even softer, I would try between a f2~f2.8. The pose is awesome.

chuasam · Jun 24, 2015

I'm not a big fan of removing ALL skin texture from the face. what is the context of the image?

Designer · Jun 24, 2015

I don't know how you did it, but her EYES!!!!

Oh, maybe that's your own reflection.

Whatever, it's very cool!

SnappingShark · Jun 24, 2015

I find the shadowing in the cleavage to look fake / off putting and distracting.
Why am I looking there? I looked at her eyes (amazing) and then followed her wrist down.