(posted 8567 days ago)Great light! White staircase and black clothes -- not an easy task but you have managed to keep detail in both and make everything look natural.
(Did you use one flash? In front-ish with big softbox. Or an reflector? Or was the walls naturally reflecting enough? But I think I see catchlights...)
I'm not sure about the girl's expression. She looks like she is sulking and she looks a bit stiff and formal, but maybe she always looks like this and it is a faithful portrait?
My only real problem is with that rail cutting her into bits. I'm not sure what you could have done. I don't know the location. But perhaps you could have switched to portrait format and have the girl stand up? This way there would just be a single cut across her legs. (As opposed to cuttin her legs in three and body in two -- five pieces in total accordign to my (possibly perverted) psychology.) I don't know if the light would have worked....
Or maybe have her back to the wall and legs across the stairs at a slight diagonal? Don't know if she could find a comfortable position that way...
It's a great place with wonderful light, a good model; indeed a very promising setup and a very good effort. (You must teach me to do light like that!)
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