Taylor! So hot the snow melted!

[DGMPhotography]

No words needed.

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What do you think?

Thanks!

 

[Gavjenks]

1) pretty good, no major comments.
2) My favorite. Love the genuine looking smile and personality pose.
3) Seems pretty snapshot-y. Could be standing around in line for something, they don't look very thrilled to be there.
4) Maybe a different crop? Her shoulder looks crazily huge here, because you probably cropped immediately above her armpit so it implies that the skin just expands on infinitely rather than being an arm and a back separately. If this is all you have available (i.e. it's not already cropped), then I'd crop tighter by 15% ish to help.
5) Pretty good. Not as charming an expression as #2, but certainly good.
6) Feels like a clothing advertisement, since her face is de-emphasized, and nothing is happening really, the clothes are the emphasis. Which is great or not so great, depending on intent.
7) Obviously, the more intimate version of #6. Seems like you were thinking along the same lines as I was in #6 comments, and this is exactly what I would've suggested. I like it, on par with 1 and 5.
8) Second favorite. More interesting content for sure than #2, but also feels a little more staged/a tad less genuine, and that weighs more to me. But great photo regardless. Also maybe worry more about the trees here than in the others since they are comparatively less blurred looking and potentially distracting (slightly higher camera angle perhaps?)

 

[Parker219]

I know she is a pale face red head, but her face looks pretty overexposed to me. I would take a couple extra minutes and try to tone down the white in her face or something in post processing. In fact, I will take a shot at it, but you will be able to get better results using the RAW files of course.


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[Derrel]

I think a bit more depth of field and/or better focusing would have helped. When looked at larger, there are some issues with insufficient depth of field, and mis-placed focus. I think her skin tone is still a bit too pale. Maybe it's your monitor. The first seven of these would benefit from giving her a bit more room within the frame...she's crowding the top of the frame in every single shot. That's not the best framing decision in the full-length or half-body shots.

 

[Gavjenks]

Oh also: none of the snow looks melted to me =P

 

[DGMPhotography]

Oh also: none of the snow looks melted to me =P

I knew someone would say that But you can't see all around!!

 

[Braineack]

the exposure [and focus] in #4 looks better, I'd try to edit the rest to match that.

also not fond of how tightly these are all cropped.

 

[DGMPhotography]

the exposure [and focus] in #4 looks better, I'd try to edit the rest to match that.

also not fond of how tightly these are all cropped.

You're right. My monitor is just fine, I just kind of liked the high exposure.. but now that I see the comparison I agree that the correction is better. And I used to not crop that way but I saw soooo many comments on this forum telling people to crop tighter so I kind of got accustomed to it.. it's what looks right to me, but I can experiment with wider crops too.

Thanks for the feedback!