The park

[Evertking]

 

[Fujidave]

Very nice image, good that you showed the moody sky in this. Great lighting on the young lady and a nice pose.

 

[Jeff1547 47]

Lovely image...

 

[tirediron]

I'm going to respectfully disagree with both Dave and Jeff; in my view, this image is a swing and a miss. For me, there are two major issues: (1) It appears to have been shot from fairly close up with a short focal length resulting in the model having a slightly distorted appearance. In particular are the knee very close to the camera looking very large indeed, and the head [relatively] far away, looking disproportionately small. (2) The overall composition just doesn't work. You have the path image left which makes a perfect leading line that the eye gravitates to and follows to the gate and then has nowhere to go... Despite your lighting, which is, as usual, very pleasing, my eye spends almost no time at all on the model when looking at this image.

 

[crf8]

I see distortion too


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[Donde]

Her legs and lower torso look huge and her head looks tiny.

 

[Evertking]

Yeah, y'all are right. I shrunk her head lol.. there is a photographer that I really like - Iiro Rautiainen Photography | Valokuvaaja Hyvinkää & Helsinki - and I was after something like that. I guess an environmental type image. How could I have taken this image and not got the distortion without losing the environment around... Never mind the messy composition right now.

 

[shane.haumpton]

IMO, a little distortion to the background will also add focus to the subject. I found a great tip here: Adorama Picture Taking Techniques

 

[tirediron]

Yeah, y'all are right. I shrunk her head lol.. there is a photographer that I really like - Iiro Rautiainen Photography | Valokuvaaja Hyvinkää & Helsinki - and I was after something like that. I guess an environmental type image. How could I have taken this image and not got the distortion without losing the environment around... Never mind the messy composition right now.

Wow... that fellow does some AMAZING work! Thanks for sharing. A couple of things I notice - (1) he keeps his model close to the center; not centered, but close to it, and while he shows the environment, in most cases he doesn't show too much of it. (2) He is a master of compositional elements - check out the second image, first row (lady in a leather jacket next to an aircraft). Notice how all the linear elements direct the eye toward her? If you had a used a tree on the other side of the path and incorporated the line of the path into the image as a leading line to bring the eye to the model you would have nailed it.