Aventus's E2 --->DMSI V3.0.1 journey

[Shannon]

If you get the link, it's most obvious in the three images at the bottom of the page.

As an experienced photographer, how would you improve the last three pictures?

Given the circumstances, it appears that those were sort of informal and playful, so you wouldn't have directed her much. If you were directing her, I would have had her body at more of an angle so that one shoulder was closer to the camera than the other. If you can't direct her, move yourself to get that effect.

Generally for portraiture, you want to focus the eye of the viewer on the subjects eyes first and face second. One big way to do that is to use a wider f/stop. You appear to have been using something around f/5.6, and I would open it up to 2.8 if you've got that. Blow out your background as much as possible. But make sure you have those eyes in sharp focus!

By her expressions you were probably being playful, which is good. However, the cup... the cup is hiding too much of her face in my opinion. I suspect that may have been intentional on her part, as she was trying to signal and hide at the same time.

The tilt to her head in the leftmost pic on the bottom row is a good thing, you want a tilt. Angles are interesting to the eye. She has a beautiful smile... don't let her hide it! Get her from different angles. Fill the frame with your subject. You did a pretty good job of capturing her emotions.

Good advice thanks! I'm still not comfortable with the directing of models. That's probably why I took to documentary and reportage style. And that's why it was directed much of at all. I'm more bothered by the fact that you got the link to the pictures!

Why would that bother you. You learned something important because of it.