Wife Helping Me Practice

[trickyricky83]

Just Learning, and throwing it out there to get the goods on what i did right, what i did wrong. Thanks

[MB1]

First of all let me say that the composition is great. You didn't place any of her out of the frame and you made great use of space and her pose. Overall this is a really good image.

About the only suggestion I would make here is that the focus/depth of field seems a bit off. I would like her hair and the weave in her hat to be perfectly sharp and in focus and it looks a little soft. It also looks like there is either a shadow or perhaps fabric hiding her right wrist which bothers me a bit.

[Frog]

No expert here but looks good to me. MB1 made good points.

[chocolic]

Looks good here too - The creases in the backdrop are a little distracting - if I tilt my screen so I cant see that detail - it looks much better. Great shot!

[Lori11]

Wonderful shot! I agree with MB, the textures would add interest. I love any comp with boots and hats, great set up! :thumbsup:

[snoid]

A+++++++++

[adrock2001]

I actually like the creases in the back-drop. They add continuity to the photo by tying in nicely with the drape covering her pelvis.

The focus is killing the picture for me though. Almost the entire photo seems out of focus. I would actually buy a picture like this if the focus were perfect. Everything else is simply beautiful.

[jetrim]

These are mostly nit-pick, but stuff I've learned talking to pros along the way.
As was already stated composition is just about as perfect as it gets. It would be nice to see just a wee bit more of her nose though.
Backdrop - she's way too close to it. 8' to 12' is appropriate (even at f/5)
Boots - Always be careful with showing the bottoms of boots - rarely attractive unless brand new
Focus - This shot is forward focused, the sharpest part of the scene is the black material covering pelvis. Focus on head then move camera to recompose if you need to.
Rt hand - we should really be able to see all of it.

[gahspidy]

This is an old thread that was brought back up again by a spammer. . .

[mdvaden]

This is an old thread that was brought back up again by a spammer. . .

At least they picked a good one.

I read the other comments, then looking at the photo, a thought came to mind. She has moles. I think this image, because of the moles and light skin, is better than had a woman without the moles posed. It's subtle touch of character.

[jetwrnch]

Would be interesting in infrared.

[byjamesderuvoDHQ]

I think it would actually look better when her facing the camera. The back shot doesn't accentuate her curves as well, IMHO. And she looks to have quite the curves. ;)

[Anbesol]

Great shot, great composition! Classy but provocative! You've also made great use of available light. The cowboy hat is a tricky lighting thing and you've managed the shadows around it very well.

Looks a bit bright on her back, a simple highlight tone adjustment should easily fix that.

The folds of the sheet that was used are also seen clearly, backdrop sheets are best crumpled up as opposed to folded, so you get a random crumple pattern as opposed to even distracting folds. You can however process quite easily the folds with clone stamp/heal brush. I'd also lower black point so the black is more jet black, which will further help in the solid uniformity of the solid black color of the background.

One final nit-pick is her feet, the placement looks slightly uncomfortable, it is slightly distracting. Her thighs, spine, arms, neck and head look all so perfectly posed that this is a very minor nit-pick.

*edit - DOH! I just saw the date posted... Hmmm....