Cowgirl - Warning...Not fully clothed

[Tumber]

I haven't posted on here in a while as a new day job and also it has been below frigid here so I haven't done a lot of hiking or anything, but here is one from a recent photo shoot which at the time was about 5 degrees outside and we were in an unheated barn.

f5.6
1/160
35mm focal length
ISO 100

[Photo-John]

No comment on this one yet? C'mon folks. I'm sure some of you have something to offer Tumber.

Straight glamor shots like this aren't really my thing - mostly because I like to a photo to tell some kind of story and this one mostly tells me "hot chick in a barn." The lighting is great and the black-and-white conversion is good but that's not enough to really move me. I don't know if that's useful to you or not. But I think it needs something more to get me involved. Eye contact is a good way to do that - although that would totally change the photo. Right now, I, the viewer, am a voyeur. Eye contact would engage me in a very different and more interesting way - for me, anyway.

There are a couple little things that are bugging me. I wish her boots weren't cropped and the tilt annoys me a little. I like the angle of her body but the tilting vertical lines in the background bother me. You can't have them both, I guess.

[Tumber]

John,

Those are both valid arguments. I appreciate the feedback on this. I was wondering if it was that bad that no one wanted to say it incase it hurt my feelings. :-)

Her husband was standing just off the camera making faces at her and so her gaze and pose were to shut him up. I was testing the lighting for shadows and everything so this was a quick snapshot to see if I got the lighting correct as the temp (5 degrees) and the shadows in the barn with lack of electricity was making it difficult to get the lighting right.

With that being said. I agree with you that there are things that I could improve on this photo. The lines, models eye sight or lack thereof, etc. I will work on this things in the future. Thank you for the feedback John! To me this was one that I liked but the more I looked at it I loved it...especially since it was the clients favorite picture from the shoot and her husband purchased a huge copy of this for her.

[Greg McCary]

Other than the points John hit on the upper right hand side of the picture is to busy. But even with the nit picks it's still a nice picture.

[f86sabjf]

I dont know how to explain it but she looks stiff not relaxed or natural . I like the setting and concept though.

[GB1]

Tumber - There's some good things happening here, but I generally agree w/ the other comments, especially that she seems unrelaxed (tense and uncomfortable). I think the tension's in her shoulders and neck. I often tell models that I prefer when they're somewhere between relaxed and dramatic, then let them show me what they have in mind; and I sometimes having them spin around or jump in a wild way to help break any stiffness. As far as the rest, I like the lighting in general, especially on her legs, but think her face and right arm may be somewhat blown out. All that empty space in the upper left seems out of place. What could be there? I am not sure ... maybe she could've been sitting outside and that was a dark sky w/ moon? Maybe the moon could be what's illuminating her. Anyway, back to reality...

G

[Tumber]

Thank you everyone for your feedback. This are all things I can work on and improve in future shoots.