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Originally Posted by ckrieg
3rd portrait shoot. Give me as much criticism as possible please. How can I improve?
I personally think your hair light is about a half stop too strong and your key light isn't strong enough. In fact, I think that if you feathered your hair light to skim the entire back side of her it would have been more effective. This would require you to GOBO the flash. Your editing of her skin is too smooth in my opinion. That being said, I tend to lean towards the more natural side of things with minor cleanups. I also think that the jacket is too dark and no details other than the highlights on the buttons can be seen.
The subject doesn't "pop" from the image as much as she could. If you are trying to balance the background and her then that has been accomplished, however I would personally say the photo is flat and lacks a dimension and dynamic. Although most people won't catch it, there is a very faint double shadow on her face from your fill light. I would have lowered that fill light maybe another 1/2 stop. Again, details of her jacket are lost.
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Again, I find her hair light too strong and overdominating the photograph.