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Hi all just sharing a few of my shoot with Stevie C&C Welcome.
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Egyptian beauty
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For me the the fifth makes a very effective portrait of a beautiful woman.
The others have no mystery, as the lighting is perhaps too harsh with no interplay with the background.
The others have no mystery, as the lighting is perhaps too harsh with no interplay with the background.
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Nice set, beautiful model
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Interplay with the background?
What does that mean?
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I'm not feeling this set at all, Peter. They feel too contrived - like she's holding those poses rather than moving freely between them to give the shots some fluidity and life. The shooting angle disengages the viewer from them and the specular highlights are offputting too. There is a good idea there and I think with a little thought you could shoot this again and make it really work.
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Hi Peter, these are a lovely set of images. The thing that sticks out most to me is her hands are in the exact same pose in every photo I don't know if this deliberate? The pose of the hands looks very stiff and forced as the fingers are locked straight which probably contributes to Deans feelings of forced poses. I know nothing about egyptian dance so if that's a requirement apologies but slightly softer hands would help the poses imo.
The other issue for me is the colours are slightly different between each image, particularly in the first which looks to magenta on my work screen there is slight shift in skin tone on all the images. Working with groups of images it's important to keep the colour process consistent. For me when I'll batch my raws to the same point then when working in photoshop I can keep colour and tonal changes on adjustment layers so I can group them and duplicate the groups across images to keep them consistent I usually then just need to change masks to fit each image.
On the processing side as well some of them, particularly the wider shots look a bit over sharpened/contrasty and the highlights are to high. There's also some banding in the background gradient. Some/all of these issues could be down to the jpg conversion but more prominent in some images, eg. the hands in image 3, than others. Again just keeping your processing workflow consistent image to image might help. Also it looks like these are posted to flickr, if you use the flickr code to display theimage it will link back to the image lets us see the original where as using the forum image tag embeds the resized jpg. I'd like to see the original as they often look better than how the forum displays it.
Good work anyway, thanks for sharing.
The other issue for me is the colours are slightly different between each image, particularly in the first which looks to magenta on my work screen there is slight shift in skin tone on all the images. Working with groups of images it's important to keep the colour process consistent. For me when I'll batch my raws to the same point then when working in photoshop I can keep colour and tonal changes on adjustment layers so I can group them and duplicate the groups across images to keep them consistent I usually then just need to change masks to fit each image.
On the processing side as well some of them, particularly the wider shots look a bit over sharpened/contrasty and the highlights are to high. There's also some banding in the background gradient. Some/all of these issues could be down to the jpg conversion but more prominent in some images, eg. the hands in image 3, than others. Again just keeping your processing workflow consistent image to image might help. Also it looks like these are posted to flickr, if you use the flickr code to display theimage it will link back to the image lets us see the original where as using the forum image tag embeds the resized jpg. I'd like to see the original as they often look better than how the forum displays it.
Good work anyway, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for all the comments and crit. Points taken
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I just looked at this on my phone and the images look completely different very desaturated and colours completely different compared to earlier when I looked at work. I remember thinking at the time the preview image on tp homepage looked different from the images when opening the thread.
I've downloaded the image and looking at the exif it looks like you've exported these with a prophoto colour space. If sharing on the web you should always choose srgb for the colour space when you save as a jpeg as not all browsers/devices will honour the embeded icc profile.
I've downloaded the image and looking at the exif it looks like you've exported these with a prophoto colour space. If sharing on the web you should always choose srgb for the colour space when you save as a jpeg as not all browsers/devices will honour the embeded icc profile.
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I have just noticed that myself I thought I had changed it . And thanks for the heads up
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I cannot comment on the technical aspects of your images, as when I comment, I comment at gut level, so please feel free to ignore.
To me, she looks uncomfortable in her skin and the finger positions are contrived as compared to the rest of the image? There is a lot of potential to the imagery that is not realized.
To the good, great lighting, lovely model, great costume and well chosen BG.
Marie
To me, she looks uncomfortable in her skin and the finger positions are contrived as compared to the rest of the image? There is a lot of potential to the imagery that is not realized.
To the good, great lighting, lovely model, great costume and well chosen BG.
Marie