This past weekend, my friend Julia and I went on our first ever photo shoot. Julia Galdo, the fashion photographer who I told you about invited me to shoot with some of her friends at a ranch north of LA. So, I enlisted Julia Chu, who has been one of my best friends since junior high and is nearly 6 feet tall, as my model. (Yeah, there are 2 Julia's in the story.) Julia Chu, wants to get into fashion & styling so we decided to collaborate to create our own fashion shoot.
As soon as I saw your cathedral photo, I thought of this straw hat photo that I took on Sunday. Below are a few more that I'd love to get your feedback on. I'll post some more as I get them edited because I want to get your thoughts on my first "fashion" photos.
Thanks Kaitlyn! I miss working on projects with you!
I like the first one, especially how dark the shadow is and how you use that to move the eye around the picture, as well as the way that each black has a different texture - the ribbon, the hair, the skin.
ReplyDeleteThe second one bothers me a little, I think mostly because I want the hair out of the model's face, and because I would like to either have her be more dominant in the frame or less centered. I'm also not sure about having her front side in the shadow instead of in the light. But I like the setting and the movement that the wind creates.
The third one I love as a photograph, particularly because of the light and how it has been reflected as a rainbow. However that happened, it is really beautiful. But fashion pictures that pretty much don't have any clothes in them bother me, so I see this better as maybe a portrait - I see the model much more than I see any clothing.