More studio practicing

Not a good pose.
I would try a traditional pose.

 

Hey Terri, fantastic portrait of your daughter. You are becoming a portrait expert on the cafe. You have made great strides in this department but we do not see any wonderful landscapes from you anymore. How come??

 

Cause' she's indoors playing with the studio lights!

 

Terri, I agree with Gale on the pose...the exposure, colors and everything else are technically very good. Someone showed me this link, it is quite helpful.

http://www.lumitouch.com/benstudiotutorial/index.html

I am currently struggling with natural posing. I find that it looks good in the 'studio' but doesn't translate well in the digital darkroom in two dimensions. I need to do some more reading...but Benji's site above has some great advice.

 

Terri, very nice. I tend to agree that pointing the ellbow towards the camera may not be everyone's taste, however without the other poster's comments about the pose I probably wouldn't have noticed.
Like the BW conversion.

 

Pose aside this is good work Terri. The lighting is very good. I am normally biased towards coloured images but for the above I like #2 better.

And congrats to her for being the chosen one!

 

Terry, would you kindly extend a sincere Thank You to your daughter for me.
Prior to Sept 1998, my older sister, then 44, received hair locks from that Organization.
But thats all I care to say about that.
Beautiful pic as well : ~ )

Jim.

 

Terry,
did you see this link regarding studio/portrait set ups?

http://www.lumitouch.com/benstudiotutorial/index.html

 

get her outside and relaxed
It will probably take a couple hours for the relaxed feel to be conveyed to the camera

 

Your daughter is lovely and the lighting nice. I too am not a fan of the elbow jutting out toward the camera. I am interested in what lens you used as a moderate telephoto would foreshorten this some and not make the elbow so apparent in the shot. When using a chair I like to turn it around backwards and have them straddle the seat with their arms up on the back. I keep the chair at about a 45 degree angle to the film plane. I really like what you have been able to accomplish with your lighting. The new strobes are working for you.