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Originally Posted by Cherry7
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This isn't a good pic. Not even close.
Left to right we have. Wrong eyeline and shadow on hand. Next we have shiny forehead and hand growing out of hair. Followed by pure bored. And finally, it's hair in mouth and smoking a huge wooden cigar! All could - and should - have been fixed in the same time it took to say that outloud.
And the crop. OMFG, Just below knee kinda works, but anything mid shin or ankle is just nasty.
As for the stripey holdups? FFS sake you shoot this NOW when it would have been a bit lame in the 80s when some shot for the first time. Possible Paul. The styling is err, old fashioned to say the least.
As for lighting, well there just isn't any, not even a reflector or a careful choice of spot so the sun works in your favour. Even the reverse angle along the wall would have been better contra jour.
Lens/aperture choice? Zero thought. Looks like P mode to me, at about f16. Now imagine that shot on a tele, full length with the background more out of focus, still there, but not quite so intrusive. Or imagine it again wide angle from low down, really showing off those long stripey legs against a blue sky. Or just imagine it any way you prefer that has some kind of a "look" For someone who blathers on about "matt boxes" you'd think that would be falling off a creative log.
The whole shot reeks of a failed attempt at recreating something you once saw done well in an 80s mag. There's simply no point to it. It's not good, honest, workman like porn you can whack to, but it's not art either, it's just a bit rubbish. The only thing it has going for it, is four pretty good girls with their pants down for no reason, but even that barely lifts it into something worth a quick glance.
About all it succeeds at is being a photographic cautionary tale of how, even with four naked girls somewhere sunny, it's still possible to fuck it up.
On the plus side, a lot of your other stuff is pretty good, your book needs tighter editing from about halfway through - too many small images and not enough hero ones. Also, using the laying in the bracken shot twice, once as circular crop and once and regular crop didn't go un-noticed!