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A different angle to shoot from, wondering if this was better set up then

the last one.

a pure beauty, very well explained photo...

Hi Laura.... welcome to PN. I have looked at all 4 images of this young lady to get a feel of what you are trying to achieve.

The "seated" pose (for me) creates a "round-shouldered" and "sunken chest" appearance whilst by the very nature of "elbows on thighs", the hands are pushed far forward giving you a DoF issue..... hands out of focus, face in focus.

The positioning and posing are all important in Portrait photography and I would advise you to look in the Portraiture section here on PN to glean some ideas from some exceptional photographers.

I wish you well, and look forwards to your progress.

Regards

Hi, again, Laura,

Welcome to PN. I see you are doing a lot of work since last month. Yes, undoubtely this version is better than previous one; I will support several reasons:

- In before version I remember you cut woman´s hands. I think both face and hands - in special cases some other parts of the body, but extraordinaryly - are usually basic parts of expression and beauty in case of portrait photography. Both are ok here, with an interesting hands pose and the face looking to one side to relax the expression.

- The model is wearing a very clear yellow, she is white skinned and her hair is blond, so you needed - and you put it - a dark background to play with claroscuro or dark-light contrast. In the other versions, the woman is surrounded by light and clear objects, so claroscuro is not well done.

- The wood material of the stairs is helping to make some harmony with skin tones.

A good try in portrait photography, one genre that I also practice and like a lot because we are showing human expressions and this seems to be an interesting field. Welcome again. Ikusi arte - see you in basque country language. Josemi Gondra.