Rykiel trashed the dress

[fjrabon]

the ambient light is too bright. These types of shots need to be shot around an hour before sunset, this looks like about 4 hours before sunset. This leads to the harsh lighting a lot of them have.

The dead boat battery in 3 is just weird.

While some 'environment' portraits are fine, all of your shots have the subject making up a relatively small part of the frame. She's difficult to see properly because she is so small in all of the pictures. get closer. 1 is a great shot, but it should be the 'different' one, not just the best version of something you did repeatedly.

The bright concrete slab in the upper right corner of 4 is very ugly and distracting.

White balance/skin tones seem to jump around quite a bit as well.

 

[tacosanchez]

#6 is my fav hands down.

 

[deepsixphoto]

Nice photos. I feel like her legs could use a bit of skin smoothing. She has a couple of bruises on her shin that my eyes are drawn to in #11.

 

[NikonNinja89]

#6 is my favorite

 

[raphaelaaron]

the photos are good, but need a little more work in terms of framing. in some of the shots like 2, 3, 7, 8 i feel the background is very distracting. there are objects that take the focus off the model and push them towards the objects. i understand that it's the pier and all and boats will come into the frame regardless, but if that happens, try to make the background complement with model.

i like the use of the lines in 1, how they draw the eye towards the model.

i agree with the others that the best out of the bunch is 6. the only critique i have of that image is the way her foot looks using what looks like a wide angle. but who wants to complain of long legs, right? ;D

overall, very good. keep shooting, and make sure to get those distractions out of the way. she's a beautiful girl and has a lot of potential.

 

[unpopular]

Here I thought that the girl didn't matter....

There is definitely something that does bother me about these. I can't put my finger on it, but something does bother me. Perhaps it is that the scenery dominates over the subject, perhaps it's that I don't like the dress. Whatever it is, it's not that the model is too thin and without any muscle tone or that she has giant feet - because around here we can only comment on the model if it's a compliment. So yeah. She's beautiful and stuff.

 

[The_Traveler]

Whatever it is, it's not that the model is too thin and without any muscle tone or that she has giant feet - because around here we can only comment on the model if it's a compliment. So yeah. She's beautiful and stuff.

My guess is, rather than always say nice things about a subject, that we try to respect the subject as an innocent entity.

 

[Superfitz]

Here I thought that the girl didn't matter....

There is definitely something that does bother me about these. I can't put my finger on it, but something does bother me. Perhaps it is that the scenery dominates over the subject, perhaps it's that I don't like the dress. Whatever it is, it's not that the model is too thin and without any muscle tone or that she has giant feet - because around here we can only comment on the model if it's a compliment. So yeah. She's beautiful and stuff.

I don't think her feet are really that big. She has long toes which make her feet appear bigger. I too suffer from what I call "monkey toes syndrome". Only problem with that is when shot at certain angles it makes the feet appear as if they can fit into a pair of clown shoes. Also, some of the shadows/ spreading of the toes makes it look as if her feet are deformed such as in #6, 11, and even the angle of her right ankle in #5.

 

[unpopular]

Whatever it is, it's not that the model is too thin and without any muscle tone or that she has giant feet - because around here we can only comment on the model if it's a compliment. So yeah. She's beautiful and stuff.

My guess is, rather than always say nice things about a subject, that we try to respect the subject as an innocent entity.

I'd say the representation of the model (the subject) is not an entity at all, and that we should be welcome to comment all we want. Whether she is too thin, has too little muscle tone, has enormous feet, whatever doesn't really matter - it is is the photographer's job to represent the subject - not the model. If these elements occur in the image such that they are distracting then the photographer is to blame, never the model - and nobody ought to be chastised or censored for discussing these things.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Some closeups would be nice, #8 looks great, the others look like she's a million miles away and lost within vast brightness

 

[DiskoJoe]

None of the pics show the dress getting trashed. WEAK!

Photos are okay but they are not what is advertised. Its like a cheeseburger with no cheese.

 

[eddyhuang]

Poses are fine but, imo, the brightness of the surroundings overpowers the subject in several of these.

(and your watermark is enough without the big EH)

She's a beautiful girl and the pictures are exceptional (to me). But in number 6, something looks really off with her feet.

Weather is really awesome and so are the pictures. I will say that the weather played a great role in the perfectness of the pictures. Girl is also very beautiful and it just adds beauty to the picture. If I had some of those pictures, i would have framed them and keep them on my room walls.

Thank you all for the comments and suggestions