Niece quinceañera pictures

[d0va]

Ok the time has come, I hope that all the time I spent here reading and learning from you'll comments has help me be a better photographer
Pls CC away my friends

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Thanks

[HotHolly]

hey! i dont comment a whole lot (super busy). im sure tpf-ers have been very helpful. :) she's so cute and i love her dress. i had to comment.

like #1 - good job. shoulders are good (turned slightly thins her), good smile, good placement of bouquet. not nuts about the branches, but i like what you were trying to do. layering ground (foreground, middle, back + subject) is WAY more interesting. the only downfall is that its likely to get too busy.

#2 - the color is muddy and you're shooting up. shooting up = no no. she looks 20 lbs heavier in this shot b/c of the angle. and she is REALLY pretty. shooting up is a common mistake that adds lbs.

#3 - shoulders back to get rid of that roll on her back. girls HATE that and "chicken wings" (aka armpit overhang on strapless gowns).

#4 - beautiful! tip: turn her torso so u see a 3/4 view and she'll look thinner. you did that in several of the other shots. double tip: hide that side seam. the verticalness of the side seam breaks her torso into 2 segments, making it appear wider. if you hide the seam with her arm/ bouquet/ or place it on the horizon where you can't see it anymore - that will bring these up a notch.

#5 - very nice. i'd lower the bouquet a little more, but its a very nice clean shot. good job!

[d0va]

Thanks for the comments I really appreciate them...

[d0va]

No comments is this a good or bad thing?

[Saltwater Servitude]

#1 I like, but it might have been better if you had worked the DOF to blur the background. I wonder too how she might have looked if you could have framed her with more solid tree branches with leaves on them rather than the spindly ones that are around her now. That dress is vibrant, and a green background might have really made it jump off the screen, or might have been too much. Not sure really which way it would have gone.

#2. Same as Holly said about shooting up into your subject. The background again doesn't do anything for the image. The mask adds to the image nicely, but I'd run a shallower DOF to blur the background again.

#3 Shoulders back, and a slight twist of the torso slims her a bit as well. I would have tried it with her looking off image left so we still get a good profile of her face, and bring in the feathers and such full into the image. Also try it from the other side doing the same thing. Her hair in #1 looks like it has a lot of volume behind her, but we really don't see it except in that one.

#4 If there is a nice hallway to shoot down, as it appears there might be, then try using it to frame her in the center of it. As it is, you have a sharp, but not overly harsh shadow hitting the wall. A little diffuser would have worked there nicely.

Those big beautiful columns behind her are begging to be used in #5, and the shadow distracts me a bit. I would have tried one of those peeking from behind the columns shots, or use them lined up to frame the right side of the image and left a good chunk of negative space at image left to give the shot more character. Pose looks good, but we don't see either hand, which is really nitpicky on my part.

[d0va]

Thanks for the input Jeff... I did took a few more picture of her afterward just for fun...
Oh and the pillars did get some used ;)