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Subject: [Leica] Advice wanted
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Sun Jul 2 19:56:20 2006
References: <1be504db0607021933x4c3ba910i4620d203a052e033@mail.gmail.com>

Phil

she is already off to a heck of a good start.Nice color, good light and 
a very pretty model...My only advice might be to change her point of 
view.. Looking down on the subject is fine but maybe something at eye 
level and perhaps with more environment? Encourage her, she has good 
report with her model.

Walt

Phil Swango wrote:

> My daughter Juliet has a new Pentax *istDL DSLR and was asked by a 
> friend to
> make some portraits in a retro-looking Cheesecake glamour style.  Neither
> Juliet nor her friend had any experience with this sort of thing but they
> went ahead and gave it a shot.  It was all for fun, but Juliet is 
> anxious to
> improve her abilities and asked me for some advice and a critique of the
> results.  I really know nothing about glamour photography but am 
> hoping some
> of you will take a look and let us know what she should be doing to get
> better.  If you have comments, don't worry about being too harsh -- she
> won't read your actual comments, just my filtered version.  The three 
> best
> shots are here:
>
> http://pswango.smugmug.com/gallery/1624331
>
> Thanks for any advice or suggestions.  I'll also post this to the
> Rolleiusers group.
>
>


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