Shooting with female photographer Jamari Lior

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Originally Posted by Anh Tu Nguyen

100% crop looks okay though! The skin textures are too subtle for a small size photo like this, thats why you think it would look plastic. Maybe i should post a screen shot of 100% crop.

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You could do - or alternatively - just post your images here at a higher resolution (I tend to post horizontal shots at up to 1600px wide; yours are all quite small which makes it difficult to see finer detail).

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Originally Posted by Colin Southern

You could do - or alternatively - just post your images here at a higher resolution (I tend to post horizontal shots at up to 1600px wide; yours are all quite small which makes it difficult to see finer detail).

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The size of the photograph i posted above is 1600px wide though :-?

#5
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2814/...96e9c437_z.jpg

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Originally Posted by Anh Tu Nguyen

The size of the photograph i posted above is 1600px wide though :-?

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640 x 379 from what I can see.

#6
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5123/...9da14112_z.jpgFacade of Reality by Anh Tu Nguyen Photography, on Flickr

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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7444/...af56a42e_z.jpgSombre Dance by Anh Tu Nguyen Photography, on Flickr

Anh - the model and settings are stunning!

Of the shots on this page (#5, 6 and7), I prefer #6.

I think of Robert Capa's advice on the other two; which paraphrased is "if your image is not good enough, you're not close enough". I think you are definitely close enough on #6, and we get a reasonable mix of the model and setting, but in #5 and #7 there is too much background competing with the model.

I think a severe crop of the top (around 50%) and a severe crop of the right and bottom of #7 would result in a stronger composition. I might even be tempted to try taking a bit off the top in #6 to see how that works.

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Originally Posted by GrumpyDiver

Anh - the model and settings are stunning!

Of the shots on this page (#5, 6 and7), I prefer #6.

I think of Robert Capa's advice on the other two; which paraphrased is "if your image is not good enough, you're not close enough". I think you are definitely close enough on #6, and we get a reasonable mix of the model and setting, but in #5 and #7 there is too much background competing with the model.

I think a severe crop of the top (around 50%) and a severe crop of the right and bottom of #7 would result in a stronger composition. I might even be tempted to try taking a bit off the top in #6 to see how that works.

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Yeah i agree, the background on #7 is little bit too competitive :P