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a photo I took a while ago, criticism appreciated!!

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Anonymous 3w

I’d lighten up the photo, particularly the subject. Maybe next time have them face the light or fill in with your own light to bring out their face. Generally try not to have something cut off by the edge of the photo, like your subjects legs here. An overall nice shot though, I think it’d be great with a few tweaks!

Anonymous 3w

It’s good, there’s just not enough separation between the ground, the trees, and subject. I think with a bit of color grading though, you’ve got something special

Anonymous 3w

This sounds stupid but it’s some of the best advice I ever got as a photographer. Don’t shoot anywhere near mid-day. Sunrise/Sunset ONLY. You’d be amazed how much the quality of your photos improve by removing the incredibly harsh lighting in photographs.

Anonymous 3w

Framing. Why are the legs cropped

Anonymous 3w

I see the vision. In terms of composition, I would probably lower the angle and not place her head in front of a tree. Assuming more of a silhouette look was what you were going for, the darkness of the tree kinda blends in with her head and doesn’t allow the eye to differentiate between the subject and the foreground as well. I think you got the exposure down, but personally i would’ve brought the shadows up a bit.

Anonymous 3w

can’t see

Anonymous

#1 3w

I can definitely see this, I took it about a year ago but it’s still my favorite shoot I’ve done 🥹 haven’t done much since

Anonymous

OP 3w

thank you for your advice!!!

Anonymous

#2 3w

I think a big thing w this shoot was lightening the photos for sure, most were a bit too dark but I’m taking as many notes as possible… thank you!!!

Anonymous

#4 3w

In terms of colors, I tend to raise the blacks and put the smallest bit of blue and even smaller of green in the tone curves. I think adding a little blue to your shadows you help separate the subject from the black trees (bring the shadows up on those too). I also think you could’ve done a little better with the posing the model.

Anonymous

#4 3w

Theres also a lot of things to distract your eyes from the subject. If you can use masks in your photo editing software, you can also create some separation with an inverse radial gradient intersected with a luminance range.

Anonymous

#5 3w

You’re very right. Direct sunlight is not good for photos

Anonymous

OP 3w

in lightroom you can choose to just brighten the subject so that it doesn’t overexpose the background!

Anonymous

#6 3w

That will over expose the highlights in her hair. I would recommend intersecting with a luminance range so you can select only the darks

Anonymous

#4 3w

hm yeah that makes sense, after looking at the photo again i noticed that it looks like more of a shadows thing that’s making the photo look dark

Anonymous

#6 3w

i’m also a beginner photographer so i usually just mess around with different lighting settings until i think it looks good lol. like i know what shadows, blacks, highlights, and whites are but i still kinda mess around with it to see what looks good

Anonymous

#6 3w

Hold the option key (Mac) or alt think for windows. You can get your exposure down perfectly every time. DM me and I can teach you things

Anonymous

#4 3w

wait that’s awesome! it just like automatically does it for you?? how does that work? unfortunately i dont have lightroom desktop, only the free mobile version🥲 but its done well for me so far i guess for the most part. also it wont let me DM you