Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff Hopkinson showed:: > http://www.pbase.com/image/137293471 > http://www.pbase.com/image/137293470 Hi Geoff Hey old buddy a couple of thoughts for next time. It ain't personal! ;-) 3471...... levitating. It works fine although I feel a look right into lens might have.... not "might have added some kind of intensity to her. Rather than "Hey honey jump in the air.... CLICK! " Like no life. Or maybe have her making a face or something other than... "OK Honey jump in the air... click!" 3470........ When shooting females one should attempt to keep parts slim and female. IE: Her left hand! It is fist flat or nearly so to the camera, unlady like in a portrait. Even of this nature. If you had her turn it in reverse, sort of palm up and fingers slightly curled narrowing the size. Look at her right hand on head.... a slim feminine line. More delicate like. Sometimes it's kind of tough to get it to work as it may require a slight shift of the bdy to bring arms and hands into a potentially better line. Look at her right hand slim and "refined looking is best for ladies." Guys? Well the fist of some sort is the way to go or a fuller flatter male hand appearance. Her head and face? I think bringing her head around more to her left, slightly but fuller into camera with a tiny bit of tilt to her right would've? Or might have? given a better line on the face. What you should be looking for is: how her right neck side lines up with her jaw and face line. In other words her neck and cheek line should almost be a straight line. You can do this and still have a very very slight tilt to her head, but eyes right into camera as she is here. It's tougher to describe than show you in a moment or two in real life. These are minor items, but if handled well and the more you shoot people head and shoulder type photos the aligning will become quite obvious, once learned it makes a 10 fold improvement in the finished photo. cheers, ted