C&C please, old truck and a puppet

[caseysrt]

 

[RedStickChick]

I absolutely love the contrasting colors between the natural brown/green of the truck and surrounding trees with the deep purple of her dress. Good lighting, and overall nice work in my opinion.

 

[JoshuaSimPhotography]

I like 5 as it has a nice tone to it

 

[Frequency]

is she a bit petrified? but i really like these images..... has she woven out her gown from the petals of morning glory?

 

[amolitor]

#1 is a nice fashiony thing. Well handled, technically solid, but not terribly interesting.

The light in #2 is not convincing at all, and the truck looks flat.

#3 and #4 are pushing it a little, but the light's pretty decent. She's a trifle hot, but not too obvious.

#5 is wonderful. You could make a bunch of technical complaints, but bottom line it's a strong set of artistic choices and she looks great.

#6 isn't as good, mostly because you're not willing to push hard enough. Or maybe the color just ain't working for me? I don't know if you CAN push color hard enough without uglifying the whole thing.

#7 is a great concept, but the weird haloing over the treeline is.. yuck. Did you jam the "sharpen" level all the way over or something? It's horrendous. Get a little more light on her face. I get that it's shadowed, and that's fine with the puppet theme, but don't cram it quite so far down into the dark.

#8's cliche, but well done.

#9 is interesting. Creepy, which is pretty much always a good thing. Why does she look so confident, the scene ain't looking so hot for the pretty girl..

 

[Skwerly]

#1 and #9 my favs, as well.

 

[caseysrt]

Thank you all for the feedback, one the ones you don't like, what could I have done different?

 

[amolitor]

In #2 you simply have too much light on her, which makes the truck look dark (relatively). It's too obvious that she's being lit with a strobe, and it looks weird. I think you're trying to de-emphasize the rtuck to put the focus on her, maybe? That's reasonable, but I wouldn't do it this way. I would pull her away from the truck and use a shallower depth of focus, as you did in #3 and #4.

#3 and #4 still have a little too much light on her -- the truck is separated, let the distance and the DoF do the work, leave the light natural looking.

#7 I would tonemap much much less, so there aren't those ugly halos, and (if necessary) I would dodge her face a bit to bring it up. Shadows, good, murky depth not good.