Lacey's now a senior...

[sabbath999]

Lacey asked me to shoot her "senior pictures" since I had helped her a couple years ago put together a portfolio for modeling....

She is the daughter of a friend of mine who's one of my photography students as well, so not only were we shooting Lacey's pictures we were having a class on portraiture.

I honestly don't know much about senior pictures (I am not a professional photographer, I just shoot what I like) but she showed me basically the kind of stuff that she wanted and I did what I could. Here are a few (and no, before anybody asks, that's ORDINARY ivy not poison ivy):

 

[Designer]

#1 Very nice! Nice pose, lighting, frame. Crappy confused distracting background. Where is it written that HS students must have their picture in less than stellar surroundings? Must be a teen thing, and a newlywed thing.

#2 quite nice except for the tree
#3 Not a fan of #3
#4 nice changeup in pose
#5 I'm guessing that the subject likes it
#6 Very nice!

Where are the pictures that her parents like?

 

[sabbath999]

Where are the pictures that her parents like?

Her mom likes these. We will do formal inside ones (aka traditional studio ones) later.

 

[manaheim]

Wow these are nice. Lovely in fact.

She's a high school senior? Yeesh. Looks more mature than my wife.

 

[amolitor]

Is there some sort of texture on top of #5? It looks odd and damaged in the small size, maybe it looks good big?

These are nice professional looking images (which is to say that I don't much like them, stylistically, but they're technically solid and in a style that a) you were going for and b) you nailed pretty much exactly

Well done!

 

[MLeeK]

Those first portrait oriented ones-you have filled the whole frame. Not going to work when you print a wallet or an 8x10 and those are the most popular sizes for seniors.

 

[Derrel]

Most of these seem too tightly-framed...she could use just a bit more space above her head.

 

[Designer]

Where are the pictures that her parents like?

Her mom likes these. We will do formal inside ones (aka traditional studio ones) later.

OTG

 

[sabbath999]

Those first portrait oriented ones-you have filled the whole frame. Not going to work when you print a wallet or an 8x10 and those are the most popular sizes for seniors.

Just remembered I did these... they are cropped for the web, the originals are made so they can be in any aspect ratio, 4x5, 2x3, 5x7, 1x1 etc... there's plenty of headroom.

 

[tirediron]

That is some great work!