A day with a skater - portraits

[DeepSpring]

So my friend and I went out skating/portraiting today. Here are the portraits, the skatign will be in the general forum so check those out too

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Thanks for looking all comments welcome

 

[J.E.]

Very interesting lighting in the second picture and good colors, too!
Makes me wonder where the light came from... hm.... care to 'enlighten' me?

The other shots are nice, but 3 and 4 seem kind of flat. The first pic is quite good, though it works a little better to not turn a males chest that far away from the camera. Having an almost 90° chest-turn away from the camera creates a rather female pose, IMO. Male shoulders work better if you can still see both of them from an almost-front perspective, like in the 4th pic. Just my opinion, of course.

But I keep looking back at the second shot. There's something about it.

 

[DeepSpring]

For the second one the sun was setting and reflecting off an extremely bright and reflective window, the one that looks blown out above his head in the tree. The light bounced right against him creating a great back light for a minute. Then I darkened the imaged in ps and dodged him and a little bit around

 

[DeepSpring]

I took what you said and edited the 3rd one a bit. I couldnt see much to do with the 4th tho

 

[jemmy]

cool effects in the second shot... my fave x