Critique image - Model posing

[kevinkt]

Hey guys would like to get critiques on this image and how to improve.

Thanks.

Updated version!

 

[JerrfyLube]

Hey guys would like to get critiques on this image and how to improve.

Thanks.

Its not really much of a "pose" really...

It looks to me like she was focusing on another photographer and you were there just snapping pictures on the sideline. The crop and centralization of the girl do absolutely nothing for this image either.

 

[oldmacman]

Hey guys would like to get critiques on this image and how to improve.

Thanks.

When you over-sharpen, the background blur takes on a lot of detail and the model's skin gets blotchy. As JeffyLube points out, centre placement with this gaze is not the most dynamic. Try the gaze looking across the open space. With the space on the right, it is just wasted because the viewer is going to follow where the model is looking. Here are those tweaks:

 

[GeorgieGirl]

I really like the adjustments. :thumbup:

 

[kevinkt]

hey! I really like the adjustment also. I don't like so much blur in the background though, and I prefer the sharpness. However, what you did on the models body and face is great. What exactly were the adjustments?

 

[Derrel]

Hey guys would like to get critiques on this image and how to improve.

Thanks.

Does she have any hands? Is she wearing jeans or a skirt? Is she modeling a belt? Is she rocking killer legs?

 

[oldmacman]

hey! I really like the adjustment also. I don't like so much blur in the background though, and I prefer the sharpness. However, what you did on the models body and face is great. What exactly were the adjustments?

Added two adjustment layers: one for sharpness for the hair, eyes and lips and one for blur. The blur layer softens the details in the skin and background. Yeah, I may have gone too soft, but I was compensating for the blotchiness that was created in her skin. You wouldn't have to go that far with your original. I could have also used the smart blur which preserves details along the edges, but then I would need another layer to soften the background and I was really just illustrating the direction the photo needs to go.

 

[kevinkt]

I took you guys advice and I made a couple changes.

Critiques on the new version would be great.

 

[imstuner]

She needs some lip balm.

 

[JerrfyLube]

She needs some lip balm.

After a couple cocktails, I seriously laughed at that one... :lmao:

 

[imstuner]

Sorry thats the 1st thing I notice.

 

[Sisco]

Its a retake for me, sorry, Everything screams OOF and I agree, the pose is working against you and the model. No amount of edit is going to save this one.

 

[skieur]

Looking at your shot back in #1, your use of depth of field works, although the stone in the background is still a little distracting. The photographer normally picks the clothes for a model, and if you did that here, you picked the wrong clothes. It is almost impossible in an outdoor shot to get a white dress, looking sharp, accurately white, and not a little over-exposed and washed out. A pale blue or any other pale colour would look better and be easier to shoot.

A general guideline for shooting models is that the centre of interest is either the face or if shooting for fashion the clothes. When it is the face, as in here, upper body skin is a visual distraction, as well as shoulder straps, boney shoulder etc. A simple blouse would have worked better. The manner in which her right arm is folded in and cut off by the body emphasizes a boney, skinny upper body. Her other arm is almost cut off at the elbow which is also not done in serious model work.

As already mentioned, the focus is not as sharp as it could be and the lips definitely need some work. The hair could have used a few extra combs and placing on the right hand side as well.

A very pretty face with great hair which needs to be flattered by de-emphasizing some other visual issues.

Perhaps more thorough than you wanted, but hope this helps.

skieur

 

[c.cloudwalker]

The photographer normally picks the clothes for a model, and if you did that here, you picked the wrong clothes. It is almost impossible in an outdoor shot to get a white dress, looking sharp, accurately white, and not a little over-exposed and washed out. A pale blue or any other pale colour would look better and be easier to shoot.

I don't. I have some input because my shots are not about the clothes but the final choice is made by the client. That's one.

Two, while learning, it is always a good idea to try and do correctly what is the hardest. Once one masters the hardest situation, the rest is easy

That said, this shot is a do over because of all the different reasons mentioned before. Give it another shot, and maybe another, until you get it right. That's the way to learn.