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Russ Cooper
{K:759} 9/30/2002
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"Experiment!" The best advice ever. Last week I took one shot every half hour all day long of the house across the street, just to see how the lighting changes throughout the day. Everyone always says shoot in the early morning or the early afternoon. I didn't realize how dramatically the light changed until I tried the experiment myself.
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Merv Petralba
{K:228} 9/30/2002
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Stephanie,
Arthur means if you place your subject more to the right side from the center, being that her body is angled towards our left. This would make your pic look so much more interesting. Rather than looking like a snap shot. YUP, try waiting for this shot in early morning or early evening to prevent harsh lighting. Experiment and you'll see what were are talking about. Good Luck!
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Stephanie Tautkus
{K:118} 9/29/2002
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Thank you for the thoughts and suggestions.
Why more to the right? Do you mean to center her in the frame or actually to the right of center? And why?
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Arthur John Grossman III
{K:1214} 9/29/2002
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Hey Stephanie,
What do I like?
The pose is good.
What would I change or do differently?
1. To make it compositionally stronger, I would place the model more to the right side of the frame.
2. I would have waited until later in the day or early morning to reduce the harsh lighting and shadows of mid-day sun.
3. I would place her with her back to the sun and use a gold reflector to fill in the shadows and really make her tanned skin glow.
4. Remove the sunglasses...they don't seem to add anything significant to the image.
5. For a really dramatic effect, you could try a long shutter speed to blur the motion of the water...your model would have to stand motionless during the exposure for this to work.
Nice effort! I'd like to see more.
A.J.
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