Anna photoshoot

[john818]

hi everyone,i did a photoshoot today with a model maned Anna,here are the photos,tell me what you guys think,o and by the way she looks ten times better in person,idk y she looks a lil ugly here,what can i do to prevent that?

thanks!

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/varuj/annaphotoshoot18.jpg

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/varuj/annaphotoshoot8.jpg

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/varuj/annaphotoshoot14.jpg

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/varuj/annaphotoshoot12.jpg

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/varuj/annaphotoshoot16.jpg

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/varuj/annaphotoshoot17copy.jpg

[Kegan Sant]

Wow, good pictures first off, but a little bit of a critique here..

Her body's great, so that's a definite plus in shooting a model haha. Her face is also pretty, but because her lips are a little fuller, you're going to have to watch out for creating shadows on her upper lip (see picture 2 for reference).

Also, some makeup to hide minor blemishes and some lip gloss or lipstick to accentuate her lips might have made this a little more of a successful shoot. What she's wearing is great, as is the scenery and time of day it was shot...but a bit of makeup and maybe styling her hair would have been helpful.

I'm not a makeup artist or anything, so don't take my word for it...just some things to consider to emphasize her features a little, because she's already gorgeous!

-Kegan

[john818]

thanks bro,ya it would be great if we could get a makeup artist,but she came like this and i just tryed to stay on top of lighting,composition,and posing.by the way is a photographer in charge of posing?

[Justin Kuhn]

Nice pics. My critique is based on being a DP, not a photographer, though I'd like to get into photography.

As far as lighting goes, she could definitely use some backlight. You need to think about off-camera flash sir, in a big way--on camera flash is way unflattering. If you must use it, shape it with your hand or some kind of bounce/diffuser. Personally I like softer keylights, with something harder and localized for the eyes. For the shots when you had the sun, a reflector would definitely have helped.

Did you play with reflections in that long puddle thing? Composition seems like it could take better advantage of the awesome location. The jumps are cool, first one seems to need a quicker shutter and the second one suffers from the light being too close to the camera, or on it.

Posing--this is my weakest point to give advice on, but I shoot BTS video for a photographer occasionally when he's shooting models. The approach he takes is to encourage the model to move through a variety of poses, while he snaps furiously away, making a suggestion here and there. Now and then he demonstrates. My thoughts, in any case: Would it kill her to show off those teeth a bit more? She's got her head pushed out a bit too far in #2, there's a point where a model looks like a bird. One foot another step up on the ladder in the last one might show off those curves a bit better.

Hope I helped somewhat without coming off as a prick. I would suggest you check out Strobist. (http://strobist.blogspot.com/) Great photography blog, lots of good work from the Strobist Flikr group.

[john818]

thanks Justin,ya i had a strobe on my camera,it was reflected of the wall,but kinda looks it was direct.i used a reflecter on the sunny shots without flash to light up the shadows,ya your right i should have had a backlight,but i cant afford a slave strobe right now,but im getting it once i get some moeny in my hands lol.for the posing that what i did,basicly i told her do this and she did it then she put some stuff,and sometimes she had poses without trying and i was like ok lets do that lol.thanks agian

[Justin Kuhn]

Yeah I should have given you more credit, and been able to tell--a direct on-camera flash would totally blow out the skin tones.

[john818]

its cool,its kinda hard to tell