Raffaella

A local photoclub has make possible to make a portrait session in

Naples Botanic Garden.

Here my first attempts of portrait shot.

Comments and critique to improve tecnique are very wellcommed,

Thanks,

Vince

Vincenzo,

The background seems very strange for a portrait taken in Naples Botanic Garden? I do not like the object going into where her eye would be.

The composition of this image is really quite good. I don't understand this being an attempt at a portrait. If you said it was an experimental photograph or an art photograph I could understand.

Perhaps I have totally misunderstood what your intent was or what this photograph is going to be used for -- its purpose.

I guess I don't really know how to approach critiquing your photograph. If you would give further information about this picture I would appreciate it and try to comment.

Thanks,

Mark

Mark, you're right. I should be clearer.

Well, this club has set up a photo session in the botanic garden. There where also models to let us practice in portrait shot. We have been lucky enough to have a nice rainy day, so at least in the beginning of the session we started to shot under a ceiling. The background of this shot in a wall. I've said to be my first attempts of portrait meaning portrait of a model, I usually shot portrait of nx lovely wife and my baby girl, so this has been a kind of new experience to face a model and freeze an expression/emotion without any personal feeling (read relationship). I'm not a pro photographer, but I do love photography and I like to experiment. You see, it was quite original for a model session since we were about 30 photographers, all aimed to take a photo to the same model, see the folder. Eventually the rain's finished and we were able to have a garden as background. Cheers, Vince

Nonostante tutto,mi piace e  fa girare la testa anche a me,foto frizzante ! :-))Paul