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My take on Glamour Portraits C & C appreciated

katerolla

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These were shot with natural light, one window and one white reflector.
Your C & C would be appreciated
Shot with 5DII and 70-200 2.8

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After
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The lighting is nice, but your subject looks rather unimpressed in a lot of them. Work on getting your subject to connect with the camera. This doesn't mean they always need to stare right into the lens, but I usually carry on a conversation as I shoot, get them to relax, laugh, let down their guard.
1-looks like a police mug shot
2&3-both quite nice, good standard portraits
4-she looks pissed off, like she's tired of posing, and the pose really doesn't work for me
5-I like boobs, but I try to avoid the straight down the shirt angle
6&7-she looks kind of startled, like a dear in headlights.
8&9-very nice, she looks relaxed
 
I don't really see these as "glamour" rather just nice shots of someone. Watch the details, such as the exposed bra (There's a reason it's called UNDERwear) and it seems either your focus is soft, or you've applied some sort of light blur which doesn't work for me. You'll get best resuls with fewer images; ideally four or less.
 
6 is nice. I agree with the comments made on the others, including liking boobs...LOL
 
The heavy blur layer is causing some posterizing (banding) on the backgrounds, and that doesn't look that good. Overall, not too bad. The posing and expression is not really first-rate, but for a "regular person", a "real woman", she looks pretty hot. I am assuming, maybe wrongly, that she's your "significant other", so perhaps you can continue working with her, and helping both of you get better and better at this kind of shooting. Minor pose refinements on many of these would help, and some have better expression/pose than others. This genre is seen on the web these days, with top models and top shooters, so the standards are pretty high. But, as I said, for a "real person", she comes off looking pretty good.
 
Thanks for all your c & c, I have done little editing on those, the bending on the background is caused by photobucket its not on the full size images and no blue was added just heavy resizing for my slow internet connection. I will work with her again and try and improve on all your comments, thanks heaps, its the only way to learn
 

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