Chinese Girl

[jwsk]

I was asked by this friend of mine to take some portraits of her for her application submission to a singing competition. She has no experience in modelling (as much as I am not experience in photography yet) and we were just trying out as many style as possible. Shots were taken mostly with the Nikkkor 50mm f/1.8 and a 3rd party flash. Here are some of the results.

Critics and Comments welcomed...

EDITED: I forgot to mention that these pictures are "play" pictures. The ones to be submitted for the competition has to be a straight forward picture - one face picture and one full body picture. Since she has already put up her makeup, dye her hair and wore such nice clothes, I thought it'd be a waste just to take 2 photos for the competition.

[Chai]

Hmm...I find the poses are a bit weird, especially the 2nd and 4th. The rest are fine though. Maybe you should try to immitating others.

[aKho]

she looks like a cute girl.. you so need to get her to do a peace sign pose..

[hyper_raider]

I hate that pose so much you know....pls if you want to submit a picture to a singing competition dont do that pose

[doraemon]

Originally Posted by Chai

Hmm...I find the poses are a bit weird, especially the 2nd and 4th. The rest are fine though. Maybe you should try to immitating others.

i like the 4th....

2nd pic...too focus on face

i found out that the pose not natural enough, may be beside posting, u can keep on snapping wat ever she doing at that time...that will be more natural i think and have a better effect for a person that nv do modeling

[Falcone]

I feel the darker background (better contrast) will bring more focus on potraits, also lower appeture with better DOF will help (I hope I got it rite).

[Chai]

Originally Posted by Falcone

I feel the darker background (better contrast) will bring more focus on potraits, also lower appeture with better DOF will help (I hope I got it rite).

I think you meant bigger aperture with less DOF.

[jwsk]

Originally Posted by Chai

Hmm...I find the poses are a bit weird, especially the 2nd and 4th. The rest are fine though. Maybe you should try to immitating others.

I think what you meant was my angle of shooting is a bit wierd? She was just practically sitting down there (feeling a little shy at the same time ) You know la... it's not easy taking a photo of your friend. She was so uptight initially that every photo appears like a stick!

I think "Beginners" like us are always trying to imitate others as a learning path. I look at hundreds of photos at Fredmiranda.com trying to see what the pros do while photographing models or models wannabe.

In fact, I asked her to do some pose which I've seen in some other photog forums. It turned out so bad I removed most of them instantly. The photographer and the model too has a role in this. I think it's important for us to get the hang of it rather than trying to immediately generate "pro" results in such a short time. For me, the satisfaction was when she was really happy with the results. All she did was asked me to remove some of her freckles on her skin!!!

[Chai]

Haha...yup
I guess you answered everything yourself.

[jwsk]

Originally Posted by hyper_raider

I hate that pose so much you know....pls if you want to submit a picture to a singing competition dont do that pose

Haha... don't worry. She'll only need to submit a face and full body picture for the competition. The rest are only taken for fun. It's a win-win situation. I get to improve my photography skills and she gets to keep a set of edited photos burned in a CDR!!! =D So, if anyone of you in the forum who would like a similiar win-win situation, do let me know ya! Male or Female!