I would welcome your critique of my recent work, so long as it is constructive like "take up knitting or lego"

If anyone cares add any ratings I' be delighted

I daren't.  Another 5/10 would kill me!

:-)

GCImages , Photographer  posted on 04/07/2010 00:31:09   Posted 663 times

Located:Gloucestershire,Hampshire, UK
Member Since: 03/10/2009

Left hand side:  It's OK but it all feels a little stilted to me.  I am left wondering why Holly would be posing like that, smiling and holding on a headress encompassed in a black environment.

Top right:  Much better and more coherent.  It's Holly doing what Holly does well, sympathetically captured by you.  The light on her left hip does drag the eye away from her though and a little careful burning might help.

Bottom right.  It feels to me that everything is too 'tight'.  It has resulted in her left arm becoming too prominent in the image and the hand looks bumpy and unattractive.  Compositionally it works quite well and the attempt at rembrandt lighting is getting there.



Hope this is of some use.



Jeremy

Top right is fab me thinks, 9/10
Aimee

My Gift Is My Soul

Thanks guys for the comments thus far. Any more takers.

I'm also looking for comments on the rest of my portfolio??

          Difficult to take a bad picture of Holly. Without giving marks my favourite is the main image although i would agree that you could get rid or the head dress

mannybash , Photographer  posted on 07/07/2010 09:07:42   Posted 12 times

Located:London,London, UK
Member Since: 19/09/2009

 the lingerie stuff looks dated very late 80's early 90's razzle/mayfair etc abit cheesey and the lighting background are very stark
think your strength lies in artnudes soft or natural lighting seem to have an eyes for lines tones shape of the naked body as opposed to clothed :-)

cheers
bebe

Hi,
there is something completely off putting about this image when I looked at the first time and I mean really off putting, at the same time as it has been mentioned already the top right photo  is really really good-I suggest you get of the entire photo and just use the top right one, I personally don't like the layout to start with, and I'm guessing the only photos you can use from that lighting set up are the ones where her face is to her left as if its too much to the her right then it's too dark and unusable..at the same time if you moved the lights to your left they wont look as good on her body-so for future reference you need to re think about your lighting for this theme. her pose in the biggest photo on the left is not right but that's not her fault at all-it's down to you how to instruct her how to pose and its your choice of photo that ended it up here and you can see the lighting on her when you taken the photo, however you can improve a bit of the shape if you go to photoshop draw a box mask around the hips area then go to filters and choose liquidfy then you'll be able to shape the edges and the hips using diffrent tools on the left hand side and it should be easy as the background is black so you have nothing to fake/fill in the empty area you left behind..Hope that helps.
Best regards
Ali