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Photo Choices
Mike,
If you can't decide which photo, it's best to start again. I say this as you have beautiful head shots but there are problems with the color on the first and composition on both. On #1 the frilly green curtain does not work with your sophisticated model and the skin color is too purple. In #2, the arm direction draws your eye away from her beautiful head and the flowers way over to the right are too distracting. Your film is way too fast. I use a slow film, Portra professional NC iso 160. It is low contrast, has good saturation on the light tones and definition in the darks. Tripod mounted and with a reflector I get almost consistently good skintones, as close as I've ever seen to life. It is too hard as it is to paint, make sure your resource marterial is the best. I'm a fanatic about anything involved with my work and sometimes do it over and over again to achieve my objective. Remember in the old days subjects were asked to sit for hours. They get away too easily today.
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