mckinnon14.jpg
by jerowe

Comment by TCGuru:
This one is one of my favorites!! :) You have slimmed the model up by getting a high angle and shooting down on her, and she looks like she is having a lot of fun here. Only one suggestion, crop just a little lower than the hips next time, remember the joint rule ;)

mckinnon4.jpg
by jerowe

Comment by _eug:
Watch your background and control what you can. Notice the bits of dirt on the ground in front of the planter? Brush them away before the shoot.

Shallower DOF to put the focus on the subject and keep the eye from focusing on the fountain.

Looks like on camera flash by the large shadow to the left of the subjects head.

mckinnon2.jpg
by jerowe

Comment by TCGuru:
I really just don't like the pose here, she looks really stiff and uncomfortable and you have cropped off the dress at the bottom of the photo. I am with Eugene on this one, I would have pulled the bench out from the hedge too, then backed up a step or two (or changed to a slightly higher angle?) to get the model and the whole dress and the whole bench in the frame without so much of the hedges.

mckinnon2.jpg
by jerowe

Comment by _eug:
Background is a bit obvious. I would recommend pulling the bench away to create some distance so you can blur the shrubs.

Water of Glass
by jerowe

Comment by eyemissyewe2:
water of glass is right! This picture feels so peaceful to me. congrats!

Storm Brewing
by jerowe

Comment by Dr.Confuser:
Pleasing pastoral image. I like the brooding sky contrasted with the red barn. Well done.

bridals1.jpg
by jerowe

Comment by taterbug:
Here is a quick easy way to vignette, I think gives a lot more control and evenness than free handed burning- Click to show rulers, choose your rectangle marquee tool, select a rectangle at say, 1 inch in on each corner. Set feathering to 2oo. Your rectangle selection will have nice rounded corners and a nice fading feather blend. Go to selections, hit inverse, this makes your selection from the marching ants out to the edge of frame. Then make a levels adjustment layer, move your dark and mid sliders to the right to taste.

tub5.jpg
by jerowe

Comment by jerowe:
thanks so much, david! my favorite part of this picture is her smile, and of course the tag coming off the pillow :D

bridals1.jpg
by jerowe

Comment by jerowe:
thanks so much, yeah, i did a quick/sorry clone job to get them up, i'll try the vignetting and see what happens :D

thanks for all the great comments, much appreciated!

bridals5.jpg
by jerowe

Comment by Prof_Fate:
WB issues, or at least a tweak - the dress should not be blue ...it is in the shadow.
flowers - move them down a bit below her hip and watch your BGs - a wider aperture might have been nice to throw the BG out of focus a bit,make it less distracting.