Second shooting

[Anne_LilyofTheValley]

This is my second shooting. I hope I will improve day by day...
With your help and your helpful comments.



p.s. I have to admit, that here people are very kind and comments are very nice. That's why I am here not in other photo forums.

[Anne_LilyofTheValley]

part II

[David Kilpatrick]

Anne, I could say a lot about the poses, but I like the general feel of the pictures. There are some basic techniques or ideas used by portrait photographers for shots of couples which could improve your work, but they are easier to demonstrate than explain.

I'll just take one example - the young man's portrait in front of the girl, with her out of focus. Try this with the girl as the subject, and the man in the background; ask the man to look out of the picture, to be in profile or 3/4 profile, not directly at the camera like the girl. Keep the relationship between the heads the same. As a general guide, if someone is used out of focus, it's best not to have them engaging the viewer (eye contact), as this makes the viewer look at them in the shot - when they are out of focus, and really there in a supporting role. So looking down, or to the side, works a little better.

Another pointer - which does not apply to these pictures - is that when photographing a couple with both faces to the camera, side by side, equally sharp, you should adjust their head heights so that generally the male appears taller than the female (even just by a fraction) and you should avoid the eyes 'lining up'. If a line drawn through the pupils of all four eyes is one straight line, that's very bad. Ideally, the lines drawn through the eyes should form a shallow V - create an angle where they intersect, and the intersection should be within one face.

David

[Anne_LilyofTheValley]

Thank You David for explanation. I will surely take into account and try to improve portraits. It was the first time to shoot a couple. It was cold and I was very tired after shooting a video for 4 hours... Which really affected taking photos. So next time I will not take photos when I am exhausted

What about the mood? Cause in this pictures I was trying to catch a mood. Did it work out or not?

Anne.

[Anne_LilyofTheValley]

other shots...

[Anne_LilyofTheValley]

I like this shot...

But I would like to know what do you think about it.

[Birma]

Hi Anna - i like dsc63 probably due to the space in the left of the picture.

[Anne_LilyofTheValley]

Hi Anna - i like dsc63 probably due to the space in the left of the picture.

DSC63 is one of my favorites. I tried to express emotion and do it somehow with AIR... so if you look at it, you will feel the air, I don't know if it worked here.