Sparkles and portraits

[Mewle]

Hello everyone, long time no see.

I shot these photographs today and wanted to hear some opinion about them. Should I try to edit them differently or anything really. Feel free to say what you think and if you want you can edit the photo yourself. Thank you guys in advance!

1#
IMG_7710 by Mevludin Stenaklic, on Flickr

2#
IMG_7706 by Mevludin Stenaklic, on Flickr

3#
IMG_7666 by Mevludin Stenaklic, on Flickr

 

[pixmedic]

i feel like the small, unmoving sparklers dont provide enough interest in the picture to offset the under-exposure.
maybe if you were doing light trails with the sparkler, the image would "pop" some.

 

[Mewle]

i feel like the small, unmoving sparklers dont provide enough interest in the picture to offset the under-exposure.
maybe if you were doing light trails with the sparkler, the image would "pop" some.

Thank you for the feedback. Will try that next time too!

 

[Designer]

I shot these photographs today and wanted to hear some opinion about them. Should I try to edit them differently or anything really.

These are underexposed, so IMO there is very little you can do now. If you want to try this again, expose correctly for your model, and ask her to hold the sparkler off to one side a bit so it doesn't obscure her face. Holding it steady is fine, no need to swirl it around, but she should look at the camera and smile.

 

[Mewle]

I shot these photographs today and wanted to hear some opinion about them. Should I try to edit them differently or anything really.

These are underexposed, so IMO there is very little you can do now. If you want to try this again, expose correctly for your model, and ask her to hold the sparkler off to one side a bit so it doesn't obscure her face. Holding it steady is fine, no need to swirl it around, but she should look at the camera and smile.

Thank you very much for the feedback. Will try that also next time. Cheers!

 

[Studio7Four]

I like shot #1. I like the ambiguity of whether she is looking at the sparkler or past it and into the camera. I do wish there was a little more of her hand in the shot, to give the sparklers more of a foundation. I might also clone out the streak of light between her eyebrows. The main glow of the sparklers will pull the eye a bit, but without that flyaway streak you can pull your focus to her eyes.

Shot #2 has some potential. This has the grounded feeling, with her hand and forearm in the shot, that I was looking for in shot 1. (Don't get me wrong, I like the tighter crop in #1.) This shot does feel a bit unbalanced, with her looking toward the short side of the frame. I'd crop some of the dead space off the left (look at a square crop).

I don't mind the "underexposure" of these first two, that just gives them a muted feel which adds to the atmosphere.

Shot #3, on the other hand, I'd bin. Here the underexposure does just look dark, not moody. Her pose and expression just don't create anything of interest to pull me in.

 

[jcdeboever]

I like them. They are underexposed but I can see that you deliberately did that. They have a film, color quality to them which is probably why I am attracted to them. I think these would look nice printed with a 1" distressed dark wood frame with a black and dark burgundy double matt.