I still prefer you to have model's face turned to you with eyes contact... and can see more of her legs ..... not sure if you omitted the legs to reduce 'distration', but certainly the picture will be more interesting if it makes me move my eyes from her face to the legs and back to face again .... hee hee Still, a great shoot nevertheless!
I like the second picture by Clubgrit.... makes my eyes move between the 'button' and the face, and the blurred colour patch balanced the picture! Wonderful picture.
Clubrig, I find your B&W shots more 'colourful' and punchy.
hee hee... me no critic... but I will "try" to elaborate myself why I like this pic...
First of all.. the mei mei is very very sweet... to the point of innocent. Most of the model shoot I've seen are young girls posing. Some done pretty professionally, some done... like by junior college boys. This pic looks like a junior college girl taken by a young photographer gentleman.
Anyway, I believe most people do model shoot following some principals, like eye contact some pose, chest up, no chop off hands... after a while, a model shoot becomes like a model shoot. Which we would expect from the usual... anything deviate would become non-standard and to some people... unacceptable.
This particular shot is slightly different. I am not sure whether this mei mei is posing for a shoot, but the fact that I don't get to see too much of her... makes me really wish to be at the location & at that time to see her. It leaves me to alot of imagination. I beat myself if I have known about this photoshoot and have missed it.
Plus the location... (I am an outdoor person) with the sunlight and the green, makes me feel like holding her hand and drag her to the sea and go for a dip.... I presume she is near the beach, otherwise, it's pretty weird to bear bikini in botanical gardens.
Clubgrit pics are really nice. Technically perfect. Models are very attractive and sometimes he uses special tools like "X-RAY" lenses and "some fanciful devices"... :bsmilie: (is it how he make the "button" shots!)... Which to very much extend.. attract a more matured group of audiences.
To me, I would say, how a photographer photos, speaks how he sees things. There is no one perfect way to represent any picture. Through a lens, we see what we want to see and tell the world a story what we want the world to know.
BTW, Jonathon, your lens is in.
You can also pick up the 180/f4 & the 40/f2 AiS along the way... :bsmilie:
