First High Key Portrait

[ukiah302006]

Any comments to improve would be appriciated

[awboy]

You forgot to edit out the unibrow.

[msarin]

great lighting

[Frog]

edit....ok I understand the unibrow IF it were a shot trying to sell a model shot and thankyou for editing your response msarin.

That being said, I am no expert on portrait photography but if it were mine, I'd like her beautiful eyes to stand out more. Otherwise lovely shot and despite the crudeness of the above posters, I think she's a lovely model.

[Alison]

First post on here and 2 replies to make you feel like you never want to post again! I hope you don't feel that way ukiah302006

I'd say you did a GREAT job.

Lovely skin tones.
Lighting is superb! Love the way you have her chest away from the light and her face toward the light. Perfection.

Could possibly do with a little cropping off the left and the top of the image though.

As for post processing, as frog suggested I would pop her eyes a little and probably heal or cloan some of the hair between the eyebrows.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work. Thank you so much for posting.

[awboy]

I was merely making a useful note that some editing of the shot or preparation by the model would have dramatically increased the beauty of the portrait.

[GB1]

I dont know what was written before but I don't feel awboy's comment is out of line. I've got that myself a little. I've read where they've found that people much prefer the two separate eyebrows (models, actors, etc know this stuff), and it could help for the portrait photographer to know these things since a make-up artist etc isn't always available.

Overall I think it's a good shot. I think her face is a tad dark though, at least on my laptop monitor (maybe 1/8 to 1/4 f stop). The pose is good. It's a little hot on the near upper arm as you can tell that the fabric design is washing out. Nice light in eyes.

GB

[MB1]

That is a nice pose and the lighting seems good to me. I would like to see a crop from the top to just before the top of her head-that is wasted space in a portrait.

[livin4lax09]

its a nice pose and lighting, but not really high key, it's more of a midrange tone. Check out the following image for a high-key example. It's generally done with a blown out white background, with white clothing, while still retaining a good amount of the skin detail.

http://www.meejahor.com/wp-content/u...0_9462-420.jpg

[gahspidy]

Looks like you have some very good ideas and suggestions already about your portrait. I understand what awboy meant and judging from his past posts here I'm certain no insult was intended. Model preparation is definetely something to consider, but personally I prefer the natural look and feel she is an attractive model and good subject.
I agree with MB1 suggested crop. All in all it looks very good, although I too would not call this high key.Thanks for posting, hope to see more.

[engineer]

I wouldn' know what to improve. To me it's an awesome portrait and it makes me look and look at it again. I would like to see more of your portraits.
A warm welcome to the forum.