It is so nice to see your name here...and I know what you are saying. I myself debated the issue at length inside myself, this is why I posted the wider shot also.
And yet, after careful review...the portrait version to me at least has an immediacy and expectancy that is very much...up front and in the viewer's face, whereas this aspect, while present, seems to recede a little in the full couch shot.
So I think I'll stick with the one up here....but thanks for commenting. More worrisome, today, in the light of full afternoon, her forehead looks a little burned out...I have a darker version...I just hope I posted the right one, or the one I thought I posted.
Best Wishes, Travelller
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04-Jul-2009 20:57
Trav, this is unusual coming from me to you, but in this case I think I prefer the broader perspective - the cropped version is just a portrait while the other is more of an environmental portrait. - And here, the environment is an important part of the story you want to tell, I think.
Well, it is supposed to be a little edgy...and is submitted in a Buy-Sell Challenge...Ahem.
But it is not the on board flash...the 580ex on a 3' cord, aimed almost vertically at a very high, black ceiling...some of the shots were utterly burned.
I must learn how to work with flash.
I see now why it is so important for Studio work to be done in the Studio...and the same Studio if possible...so you can control light and know what does what. This was a difficult, almost panicky and sweaty shoot for me....of the 20 shots, 10 are utterly terrible in a technical sense.
How about this one...does this better make her seem more...xxx? Or, does this shift the emphasis from the subject to the furniture?
I sense there's a story here but I'm afraid to ask in mixed company. Somehow this works well for a simple flash (on-camera?). Appealingly direct gaze. -tv
