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I did a quick portrait yesterday. I just wanted to share it with you. Feel free to comment, critique or anything. Have a great day!
Looking good on all fronts but the face gives the game away. Try something simple first like having her eyes look slightly off camera but if you really want to fool the masses then have her turn her head slightly and have her eyes look up or down. Also play around with very slight expressions. Look at some high end fashion mags for reference and note the slightly bored expression. Try it and you'll be amazed at the results, just don't overdo it, subtlety is the name of the game.
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Simply perfect!
Love her hair 😀
Rank:Very nice indeed 🙂
Thank you for your comments!
@slayerjr : You're right about the eyes and the pose of the head. I'll take a mental note of that and next one will be even better. 😀To me the thing that throws it off is the glamour blur.
Over all the image looks to soft to me. I like the skin shimmer but maybe just a tiny bit less.
Just my opinion.
I agree with Adam, I'm not a fan of the soft focus effect personally but it's artistic choice, so whatever works for you.
I also agree with @slayerjr that the pose is very generic, it looks like an off the shelf one-click pose. I would suggest using the pose as a start but then changing a few things about, there are a number of poses that you can mix and match and you can pose manually. I'd definitely work on the facial expression and focus of the model, rather than just having her staring into the middle of space. Maybe have her doing something with her hand and then adjust her focus to that or another point? The key is to make something beautiful but also interesting to the viewer, in fact you can always make something ugly but if it's interesting it will keep the viewer focused on it that it works either way.
[NSFW warning!] Check out The Art Of Dan Photography on DA, particularly pictures like https://evilmatt666.deviantart.com/art/Freeze-743446318.
Or even https://bestmanpi.deviantart.com/gallery/ as he does fairly simple portrait pieces with his one female character but he really plays around with the pose and the characters focus.first off the figure reminded me of Jessica Alba in her debut acting style>>>or maybe it's just me
Good option for centering her in because The Center of Gravity for entire compositions is often at the center of the frame, so the obvious way to create balance in an image is to place the subject
in the middle...the center has the highest PULL towards it but once there, the elements/shapes/forms are stable...so the center becomes the radiating force and the eye just travels up to to the girl's face as she is placed in the heart of the image but then the eye stops and if it has nowhere to go to after this, it can drift away from the image searching for further stimulation...( luckily it goes down the same way it went up)so it would be a good idea to create secondary points of interest away from that center or that radiate away from that center to hold the viewer's eye once more maybe using her hair or her hands or something else but if it's your aim to go for that perfectly centered figure, if that's the message you want to convey, it's perfect.here are some pdfs if they can help
https://mega.nz/#F!tKhz2bqa!H5FVkJICDERtFaBf4AiMRASorry for the late answer, I was away for the weekend. Thank you all for your comments!
@d0gg0d & @evilmonkey : Looking at it now, I agree the glamour/soft blur is a bit overdone.
@jason : I was so surprised to see your comment since you never comment on anything or almost. Thank you so much for the PDFs and your input.I have absolutely no art/photography background but I'm willing to educate me. I'm ready to take the next step. Lately, I spent a lot of time learning the light system and I feel that I'm just getting the hang of it. For a while now, I felt that composition was one of my weak points so I watched the tutorial on mastering cameras and characters a little while ago and I didn't like that much. I look at a couple of photography tutorials on the web and I haven't found anything really interesting, but those PDFs look so useful.
Daz3D is incredible but learning how to use it well is a challenge. I feel like I'm being pulled in every directions. Texturing, lighting, correcting the clothes, dForce, posing... So many things to learn, but I'm loving it.
Texture is king imho in Daz. You can light a turd perfectly and its still a turd. There's a reason people photograph supermodels.
Lighting is the queen. Without it your blind and your subject is unseen. Any photography book will let you know how important proper light is.
The jack would be composition. Having your subject at a poor angle or a lightpost sticking out of her head isnt good.
After all that I'd worry about the golden rules
Yeah, there's lots of instances where rules of composition are broken and the picture looks good and others where someone will rigidly follow the rules and turn out a piece of crap. Make something that's pretty but also interesting to look at, you can also make something that's ugly and if it's interesting then people will still look at it though, not everyone photographs supermodels. 😉
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