On 11-09-22 8:46 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
My quick very non-judgmental reactions (i.e., based on feel, not on analysis
using my own or others' criteria for what makes a good portrait):
a. Good model. You are lucky to have her as your model, she is lucky to have
you as her photographer.
b. The left side of the three portraits all seem "hot" to me. I wouldn't
fiddle to the extent suggested by Bruce; I would just lower overall exposure a notch or
two.
Stan, the trouble with attempting to tame the hotspot by reducing
overall exposure is that you'll probably end up with underexposure on
98% of the face with just the hotspot correctly exposed.
You need to either use some makeup (eg powder) to kill the reflection
there, or place a gobo to cut the direct light, or use a larger, less
harsh light source. Christine could likely have positioned a white
diffuser on a stand in front of the window to act both as a partial gobo
and to enlarge the light source to cut the glare. But that would have
altered the nature of the light and produced a different portrait.
-bmw
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