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| Date: 2008-01-12 12:20 HEY HEY HEY!!!
I HAVE NEW PICTURES UP!!! CHECK EM OUT! |
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| Date: 2008-01-12 20:17 Cool new pics... erm... but aren't they your ONLY pics???
If you had others up before - maybe put up a mixture : ) |
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| Date: 2008-01-13 01:25 i totaly agree with you. thanks for the compliment. and no they arent my only
pics. i just got rid of the old ones didnt think they were all that. |
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 ID: 197756 Posts: 8 | Date: 2008-01-13 05:14 great pics   |
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 ID: 182744 Posts: 1920 | Date: 2008-01-13 17:01 I hope you don't hate me after this...I just want to see you improve.
First, Dwayne Foong did his usual good job with his images, but we're here not
to critique Dwayne's work, but rather yours.
You are an attractive girl and look pretty in the pictures, but soul is lacking.
What does the viewer feel when they look at the image? What
message are you trying to convey? I could not pick up on the emotion or intent
of the piece. What thoughts were going through your mind when the camera
snapped? Or were you just holding a pose?
Eyes: Wide open, deer in the headlight and cookie cutter.
Lissie B, Lissie B 1 and Elsbeth B. all have the same "Huh?" expression. Almost
as if you are asking the photographer "Like this?" when he posed you. Work on
getting some emotion in your eyes. Chat with the photographer before the shoot
and get a sense and feel of the emotion you need to portray. Knowing the final
disposition of the images can help with this. If the images are just TFI,
imagine what magazines or ads you would like them picked up by. Pretending goes
a long way. For most glamor, you are extending an invitation in one way or the
other for the viewer to want to be with you. Project that.
Stomach: You are sucking in your stomach. Not cool. Very
obvious. And it affected your posing. Sucking in your stomach a lot tightens a
whole slew of other muscles in your body and makes for a less relaxed look,
especially in the face. The stomach issue also bunched up the muscles under your
floating ribs. Were you holding your breath? Do some work on your stomach region
to flatten and tone it. Until then you can limit yourself to poses that will
naturally bring the stomach in. Poses that arch the back slightly. Poses in
which your arms are raised. Poses that extend your body. Reclining poses where
your stomach is not visible.
Stiffness: You seem stiff and not relaxed. Was this nervousness
or a result of the stomach sucking? Or were you uncertain about the postures
your needed to be in? Maybe a combination of all three? Being relaxed and
confident is a major key in making a successful shoot. OK, you have a
stomach...not totally deadly in glamor. There are people who like that.
So...until it is gone, learn to use and exploit it.
Relax your shoulders. In all of your images except Lizzie B. your shoulders are
hunched up. You want to be open and inviting, not expressing a defensive body
language. (You know...every model you invest in a good book on interpreting body
language. Then you will know what you are saying to people when you pose.)
A pose is every inch of your body, from head to toe and most especially the
face. Human beings express a majority of their thoughts, desires and intent
through their face...in particular the eyes then the mouth.
In Lizzie B. 2 your elbows are locked forward. Comfortable, maybe but not fully
attractive. Again, in glamor, you are inviting the viewer. When a person
imagines being with a lady, she is willing, soft and free. Not stiff, locked up
and unmovable. Rather than supporting yourself with your elbows pointing at your
chest, angle them out a little. This will subtly curve them while keeping the
line and flow that the photographer probably wants for the composition of the
image.
Lips: You have beautiful full lips. Start using them to augment
the expressiveness you will start giving your eyes. You show just two
expressions. Pressed closed and slightly hanging open. The neutral mouth parted
expression isn't working. It gives the impression of lower intelligence. Rather,
when you part your lips use a very subtle smile, frown, pout, etc. But just
opening them has a bit of an autistic look. We don't want that. Again, we want
inviting. You can also shape your lips to a mood by the proper application of
make up. Make up can thin them, thicken them, give a smile, frown, or pout.
Widen them or narrow them. The options are boundless.
Tats: I believe the large stomach tat detracted from rather
than enhanced the images. Most likely because they drag attention away from your
entire body and to your sucked in stomach.
Ring: The finger ring does nothing to enhance the overall
image. Dwayne did manage to line it up nicely with the sun in Lizzie B., but was
the ring truly necessary to the shot? And the nose ring, barely seen except as a
glint interrupts your face rather than enhances it.
Conclusion You are an attractive girl and your racial mixture
is an added plus especially for glamor. If you came to me for an agency
interview with those pictures I might put you in the "Maybe" column and ask you
to return in a couple months after some toning and training. Your wouldn't be
used for runway, for sure, but catalog work, advertisements and calendar could
be more likely. Live event work your tats and piercings would almost certainly
cause severe restrictions on what events you could attend and how you would
dress, but there are some events that would gig you.
For now, see if you can find a way to get in front of a camera a few times a
week so that you can have a large volume of pictures to study and make
improvements from. (Your brother, sister, mother, father, friend, etc. can snap
the pics. These are for your private education, not publication.) Critique
yourself sharply. Grab some magazines and imitate what you see there. Try and
imagine what the model is thinking, feeling and trying to convey in the shots.
Be imaginative. Practice, practice, practice. Between weight training, camera
training, trying different make-up techniques, studying. etc. it is a full time
occupation that should occupy most of your free time if you want to get good.
Practice makes perfect! 
PS: I hope we can still be friends!   Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should  |
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| Date: 2008-01-13 12:03 Woweeee! BOY do we need more people in life to come up with more detailed
explanations like you do! and here i was all alone thinking i was the only one
in the world who bothers to analyze every speck...Thnks carib! i really do
appreciate it.. |
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 ID: 224481 Posts: 7 | Date: 2008-01-13 13:39 Hi E. , I tend to agree with the uncomfortable, hard critique above from
Caribe.
The Pics are beautiful, and you have an outstanding face and coloring...
1. The typical 'bikini' pose is maybe not the most flattering for your body
type.. I would think more crops and partials would serve well.. The last shot,
for me is by far the best when the focus is pretty much just on your face and
upper torso.. For me, I would chop it even tighter so it was definately YOU that
was the subject and not a poster for nice beaches.
Eyes.. most important observation..
1. Think about anything you want.. to stimulate the projection of some natural
emotion... any natural emotion.. think about Christmas or your child or your
boyfriend last night.. or the photographer.. or have your boy friend stand right
behind him and make funny faces at you... think about absolutely nothing.. all
these things will work...
BUT DO NOT think about the position of your body... about putting on a "sexy"
face or hiding something you consider a flaw or too personal. This is the
photographers job.. your job is to give him everything... good, bad, .. go ahead
and get distracted with another person walking down the beach... break your
attention.. these are the moments for great photos. Sure, first plan a
position... then completely forget about it.
One of the big traps is to think about your position and expression at exactly
the moment he's going to snap the photo.. like "Ready?"... this is exactly the
time to forget it all and put your mind in another world..
Eyes, if you are going to look directly at the camera.. then your eyes cannot
stop short of it.. you need to look right through the camera to what's behind
it.. If you are using the photographer for stimulation, then look right into his
soul.. past the camera.. past his forhead and project your thought like you were
talking without words.. right into him.
Or, ignore him completely and see your boyfriend or child or whatever your
thinking about... standing right beside or behind him..
For example. Say you were walking down the street and see some incredible guy
you want to know better.. You give him a look with the intention of saying
exactly this... "Wow, I'm smiling at you, and I'm blushing a little because our
eyes have locked and I want you to know i'm attacted to you". Now you know that
if you say this right with your eyes and emotions he will fall over with the
strength of the pure passion and posibilities...
This is what your viewers want. It's not all about sex.. if you think about your
love of family.. the viewer will say.. wow, what a beautiful, warm and caring
person this is.
If you think about your boyfriend in a hot or loving way.. the viewer will
think.. Wow, I would like to have a beautiful woman look at me that way..
If you're thinking about a breakup and show sadness, the viewer will think, how
beautiful and brave to show these emotions... etc....etc.
But, one grand trap is this.... Lay out 100 Photos of yourself on a table and
pick the three you personally like the best.. Then call in 3 friends and 3
strangers... they will in every case pick the ones you HATE the most.. Because a
person will generally pick their own photos to be protective and basically show
NOTHING real..
The other people will pick the natual ones, the ones with human characture or
flaws, the ones that showed your insides for a moment.. the ones that scare you
because they show something you consider to be a flaw or to be private... But
this is the real stuff of dreams..
Give it a TRY.. after all, you are really being an actress so practice your
acting a bit and throw out the fears... All the best, my intentions are only to
help, J |
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| Date: 2008-01-14 00:00 well thanks again!  |
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 ID: 197582 Posts: 196 | Date: 2008-01-14 00:55 Hi Elsbeth,
Those latest pictures quite nice. Yeah, you're still new in photo shooting and
there's many thing to improve, especially on facial expression and body
language. But, you're still look great on those pictures. And Dwayne, WOW!..he's
getting improve and more and more! |
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 ID: 213967 Posts: 50 | Date: 2008-01-14 01:09 Good Pics
Good LuckIdolsofnet.com
International Model Promotion |
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Mystique Eyed Phoenix IonU |
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 ID: 114505 Posts: 1179 | Date: 2008-01-14 01:22 James Donnellan:
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This is what your viewers want. It's not all about sex.. if you think about your
love of family.. the viewer will say.. wow, what a beautiful, warm and caring
person this is.
If you think about your boyfriend in a hot or loving way.. the viewer will
think.. Wow, I would like to have a beautiful woman look at me that way..
If you're thinking about a breakup and show sadness, the viewer will think, how
beautiful and brave to show these emotions... etc....etc.
But, one grand trap is this.... Lay out 100 Photos of yourself on a table and
pick the three you personally like the best.. Then call in 3 friends and 3
strangers... they will in every case pick the ones you HATE the most.. Because a
person will generally pick their own photos to be protective and basically show
NOTHING real..
The other people will pick the natual ones, the ones with human characture or
flaws, the ones that showed your insides for a moment.. the ones that scare you
because they show something you consider to be a flaw or to be private... But
this is the real stuff of dreams..
Give it a TRY.. after all, you are really being an actress so practice your
acting a bit and throw out the fears... All the best, my intentions are only to
help, J
Warm WoWzers, James
That's a really terrific faceted note.
I can vouch for the 3 -on- 3 method ( throwing in a versatile ratio)
--It's a method that held true at times for me, as well...
AND:.: Ciao, Elsbeth
Thanks for brightening the box--On the simple slide,
I wish you success.
The BEST has been said=-->
The True tipped goodies came from the Most consecutive winning forum posting god
of Jurgita
DR. Care-Ribs Mentor
...--luv ya  |
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 ID: 204767 Posts: 129 | Date: 2008-01-14 20:32 great pictures!!! |
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 ID: 196690 Posts: 58 | Date: 2008-01-16 21:15 I see my name mentioned...
anyhow, carib's and james' advise are invaluable. You two has put it in words
perfectly.. I need to copy this down and pass it to every model |
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| Date: 2008-01-17 03:46 hahahahahahahahahh! you do that dwayne. |
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 ID: 179598 Posts: 119 | Date: 2008-02-07 15:20 I like your photos, your are really pretty and wohh, great
advises that Carib and James wrote! I learned alot ! * Love the Life* |
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 ID: 224782 Posts: 10 | Date: 2008-02-13 00:06 Bravo to james and "Caribe"...
Today I wrote in another post that a new FAQ should be REQUIRED reading for new
talent. What these two have written needs to be part of that FAQ!
John |
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ID: 224782 Posts: 10 | Date: 2008-02-13 00:09 Hmmmmmmmmm.
This is to the moderator.
Why are my photos, attached to Forum posts, showing up as a icon with a question
mark?
These are the SAME photos that are on my profile, under 90 KB in size...
John |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1920 | Date: 2008-02-13 08:46 Just a test upload.
 John.
Upload seems to be working fine. Perhaps double check the procedure you are
using. Otherwise, you will have to use the "contact us" button below to tell
administration your problem. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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 ID: 187757 Posts: 71 | Date: 2008-02-13 12:36 i try now not to post comments if i can help it--and the main--perhaps the
only--reason is that i do not have the patience, clarity of style and the good
meaning generosity of carib and james. their ideas have not been quickly dashed
off--nor do they come from pride or uppity or inflated self-esteem. i would only
add that a bit of the corrective work with a new/er model should also be done by
the otherwise technically excellent photographer. instructing the ,model and
making that person feel at ease enough to either be her-him/self or to enact
moods and looks convincingly is a shared responsibility. or so i believe.
i am not sure, elsbeth, what you mean by 'sorry hun..but i dont take handed out
advise,ive always gotta do it the hard way'--internalizing well meant and
generous advice is hard work.
you can be sure, you will do excellent work if you just modify the basic problem
carib and james have identified and explained so admirably well. and i hope you
do.
cheers from the true northsam/PHOTOSTYLE.CA |
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