Autum Fashion Look Book Style Shoot

[m.shalaby]

m.shalaby-

Your work is better than 99% of the people on here. While I'm a believer that all critiques should have some value for thought, this isn't a forum that puts a lot of emphasis on fashion which is totally different than senior portraits or cute pictures of newborns. I like the crops and posing and when you stated it was look book, I was able to to see what you were going for. Great job.

Thank you sir

 

[TOUS_O]

Personally, I think everything is GREAT and you are truly talented. I am using a consumer's perspective to enjoy your works and I will buy the merchandises in the photo. Good presentation after all.

 

[m.shalaby]

Personally, I think everything is GREAT and you are truly talented. I am using a consumer's perspective to enjoy your works and I will buy the merchandises in the photo. Good presentation after all.

lol... that was the goal-ish. tried to go for a Burberry ad campaign look.
as a side thought - i can nit-pick these apart as well and find little flaws everywhere. you can do it with any photo, and especially so when you venture off into personal preferences.

but its easier to just say "your photo's suck!"

 

[e.rose]

The arguments on this forum suck.

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That said... I like what you have going on.

I actually recently sat with an Express ... catalog?... that I got in the mail and I found myself intrigued by it for the very reasons stated in this thread.... that fashion photography seems to break all of the "rules", because every single one of the posed (non-runway) images in that catalog had chopped off limbs, shaved off heads, missing feet... you name it. Not to mention that a lot of the "compositional" rules seemed to have gone out of the window...

...So in that way fashion photography intrigues me.

THAT being said...

Fashion photography (at least I think) is meant to emphasize the clothing, no?

I feel that in your color shots with the girl that you lose all the detail in her coat. I can see it if I look really hard, but a consumer shouldn't have to stare that hard at a print ad to understand the garment.

All I see at first glance is a black blob... which I know is a jacket, but you can't see the stitching, buttons, or design of the coat very well as it is currently lit in your images.

You did a great job with the male model's coat in the first few shots, but I find myself struggling to make out the female model's coat.

 

[Stanza]

I like your pictures, your style and the way that you use the light

 

[12sndsgood]

I don't know what Burberry was trying to sell , but unless it was the bag they failed.

The bag is the highlight of the shot, but the entire cast of models are all wearing Burberry. It's an ad campaign which portrays the punk youth attitude in London, so having cropped heads/hands/etc... a slightly 'sloppy' look if you will, all the while maintain a visual balance "works". Its a shame you fail to see that. You can also see this attitude and feel behind their fragrance line "The Beat" photography.

You guys are very much "in the box", quite literally, as far as your views on cropping goes huh?
Do you want everything perfectly center too? lol...

You probably think this shot below, the Emma Watson Burberry fashioin campaing is a failure too because the guy on the left is cropped, and part of the bag on the right is cropped too, right?

Break out of your boxes young grasshoppers - its okay to color outside the lines!

Why? Because visually it works! These shots are balanced, while still remaining artistic... creative cropping if you will.

i guess im an inside the box thinker because i think the crops suck personally. if the advertising world loves the tight crops and cutting people off thats great, but that doesnt mean it is going to be for everybody. if your going for the cropped look and following exactly what the burberry type ads are then your well on your way. but isn't copying what they are doing kind of thinking inside the box? if the whole point is for me to see this ad and go out and buy the product then it would be a fail for me personally. i mean its the internet. suck is about as tame as it gets. try not to get your panties in a bunch over it. your not going to like everyones opinion.

 

[m.shalaby]

I don't know what Burberry was trying to sell , but unless it was the bag they failed.

The bag is the highlight of the shot, but the entire cast of models are all wearing Burberry. It's an ad campaign which portrays the punk youth attitude in London, so having cropped heads/hands/etc... a slightly 'sloppy' look if you will, all the while maintain a visual balance "works". Its a shame you fail to see that. You can also see this attitude and feel behind their fragrance line "The Beat" photography.

You guys are very much "in the box", quite literally, as far as your views on cropping goes huh?
Do you want everything perfectly center too? lol...

You probably think this shot below, the Emma Watson Burberry fashioin campaing is a failure too because the guy on the left is cropped, and part of the bag on the right is cropped too, right?

Break out of your boxes young grasshoppers - its okay to color outside the lines!

Why? Because visually it works! These shots are balanced, while still remaining artistic... creative cropping if you will.

i guess im an inside the box thinker because i think the crops suck personally. if the advertising world loves the tight crops and cutting people off thats great, but that doesnt mean it is going to be for everybody. if your going for the cropped look and following exactly what the burberry type ads are then your well on your way. but isn't copying what they are doing kind of thinking inside the box? if the whole point is for me to see this ad and go out and buy the product then it would be a fail for me personally. i mean its the internet. suck is about as tame as it gets. try not to get your panties in a bunch over it. your not going to like everyones opinion.

Its cool, and your right, not everyone is going to like everyones opinion (profound thought!) and yes, this is the internet - but when people have names, and links to personal sites, with personal contact info, and a name/reputation to build/destroy - its more then "just the internet".

It seems fashion photography isn't a jam around here. It seems you just don't "get it", which I understand. Burberry isn't just selling a "bag". They sell an entire "image". Its an entire "feel"... but I can see how that would go over your head.

As far as photography and inspiration goes - please don't call me a copy cat. Look at my website and flickr/blog, ect... in general. I have very much my own style. From composition to post processing. I drew on Burberry's style as inspriation, not duplicating it. And speaking on which, hasn't basically every form of photography already been tried? Whats new anymore? Really? So I guess everyone just copies everyone? No my friend... we draw on inspiration.

 

[moeglydesign]

Great shots. They are magazine quality for sure.

 

[12sndsgood]

The bag is the highlight of the shot, but the entire cast of models are all wearing Burberry. It's an ad campaign which portrays the punk youth attitude in London, so having cropped heads/hands/etc... a slightly 'sloppy' look if you will, all the while maintain a visual balance "works". Its a shame you fail to see that. You can also see this attitude and feel behind their fragrance line "The Beat" photography.

You guys are very much "in the box", quite literally, as far as your views on cropping goes huh?
Do you want everything perfectly center too? lol...

You probably think this shot below, the Emma Watson Burberry fashioin campaing is a failure too because the guy on the left is cropped, and part of the bag on the right is cropped too, right?

Break out of your boxes young grasshoppers - its okay to color outside the lines!

Why? Because visually it works! These shots are balanced, while still remaining artistic... creative cropping if you will.

i guess im an inside the box thinker because i think the crops suck personally. if the advertising world loves the tight crops and cutting people off thats great, but that doesnt mean it is going to be for everybody. if your going for the cropped look and following exactly what the burberry type ads are then your well on your way. but isn't copying what they are doing kind of thinking inside the box? if the whole point is for me to see this ad and go out and buy the product then it would be a fail for me personally. i mean its the internet. suck is about as tame as it gets. try not to get your panties in a bunch over it. your not going to like everyones opinion.

Its cool, and your right, not everyone is going to like everyones opinion (profound thought!) and yes, this is the internet - but when people have names, and links to personal sites, with personal contact info, and a name/reputation to build/destroy - its more then "just the internet".

It seems fashion photography isn't a jam around here. It seems you just don't "get it", which I understand. Burberry isn't just selling a "bag". They sell an entire "image". Its an entire "feel"... but I can see how that would go over your head.

As far as photography and inspiration goes - please don't call me a copy cat. Look at my website and flickr/blog, ect... in general. I have very much my own style. From composition to post processing. I drew on Burberry's style as inspriation, not duplicating it. And speaking on which, hasn't basically every form of photography already been tried? Whats new anymore? Really? So I guess everyone just copies everyone? No my friend... we draw on inspiration.

if you a good photogropher which im not doubting i don't think one persons responce on a site is going to cause you much grief. i mean even though i dont like the cropping style i wouldnt pass you up over it if it showed you had the skills. and i do agree that sometimes someone just saying it sucks isn't helpful, just seemed you took it too much to heart is all. gotta let stuff roll off your back better. because how you portray yourself on a forum can lose you just as many potential clients as your photos do. im a car person personally. and how a company treats potentional clients on a website has steered me away from companies more then how good a product they put out.


everyone sees things diffrently. because someone doesnt like blue doesnt mean they don't understand the color does it? it just means they dont like blue. to say someone doesn't get it because they dislike the style is a bit snobbish. by saying that you make it appear that you just know more and because i don't prefer it i must not know about it. probalby everyone in here knows burberry is trying to sell a image. thats what almost every company out there tries to do for there product. most companies try to sell the lifestyle. buy this shirt and youlle be just as great a skater as shaun white. buy this football and youlle be just like peyton manning. it's not rocket science realy. your making this out a bit bigger then it really is.


and im sure you have your own style. my point was somewhat tounge in cheek since you said everyone was thinking inside the box that we needed to think outside the box and then you threw up pics of the style you were trying to recreate. see the irony there? genereally when someone says they want to think outside the box. it means they want to do something completly diffrent then what the norm is. your pictures were "inspired" by the standard look. i just thought it was amusing.


remember, just because someone doesn't prefer a certain style or look or crop doesn't mean they don't get it, or are uneducated, it could just mean they don't like the look. take it as it is.