Branching out....not cars

[Luca Brazzi]

Been a while since I last posted. Happy New Year to you all

Been trying my hand at shooting people...got a few from last week's snow...what do you think?
Thanks for looking.

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[Simpo Two]

You've been practicing!

First impressions good, nice model, nice snow, I like the fill flash. On the downside the colour seems a little cool or needs more punch, and your lens vignettes, but overall not bad at all.

[Luca Brazzi]

Thanks for the feedback Simpo. I added the vignettes myself. No vignetting on a 1.3 crop camera Will have a look at warming them up and see what that looks like, but I wanted to keep the pictures pretty cool, to emphasise the weather.

Will put some other shoots up later.

[Pixel-Snapper]

Number two's really popping to me, good pose and the blood red coat really works well with the winter background.

[Andy M]

Keep the colour cool on them - it suits the environment. I think they're a cracking effort, and though I'm bighting my tongue as I say it - I hate spot colour - I would actually slightly desaturate the background further still so that the eye is focussed solely on the model.

My favourites: 2, 4 & 7 - a real feeling of Soviet propaganda about them.

Edited by Andy M on Wednesday 11th February 14:26

[Luca Brazzi]

Thanks for the comments. :-)

The colours are as they were on the day of the shoot. Overall levels / saturation have been adjusted, but no spot colouring done.

[MartinP]

Really great set of images!

My only comments are I find the blown out snow at the bottom/centre of image 3 a little distracting, and as an observation, the red coat varies in tone between the different images.

[Dogsey]

Andy M said:

... a real feeling of Soviet propaganda about them ...

First thing that crossed my mind was that LB was shooting for RussianBrides.com!

Nice set Luca.

[Yellabelly]

LB that is a good set, your model is striking without being 'pretty' and suits the setting. Only thing is with photo 3 the profile view does not suit her, all the others at full or 3/4 face on look really good. Also the barge in the background is a bit distracting the better photos are where you have good bokeh.
Her make-up is also well done with interesting treatment of the eye lashes. All of which holds the interest of the viewer.

All IMHO

YB

[Dai Capp]

4 and 6 for me - I actually like the vignetting you've added - and the model really suits the shots.

Agree with the barge and the snow in 3 being distracting and that the best ones are with the shallow depth of field.

Overall assessment - I wish I could take photo's that good!

Cheers

DC

[Scho]

Luca Brazzi said:

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couln't see these when i was at work. just dug them out on the strenght of this photo you've posted on the comp thread.

i think the set is really nice as a whole. the russian theme you've got going on really works with the snow. one of the things i like best is the falling snow lit by the flash and the breeze in the models hair. really makes the images. you should shoot more people!

[scotal]

Scho said:

you should shoot more people!

Is that a wise suggestion given the guy's ph moniker?