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oblomow

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Apr 14, 2005
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evening walk, without a tripod unfortunately. next time...

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georgeinnj

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Feb 23, 2010
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Looking for a bit of critique on this shot from the likes of The Bad Guy.

At work they're putting together an organisational chart with the manager's photos on it and asked me for a colour photo of myself to go on it. All of the other managers have gone for selfies from camera phones under harsh fluorescent lighting and I wanted mine to actually look a bit professional so this evening at home I've quickly set up my lightbox, a reflector and a black backdrop and stuck the X100T on a tripod in front of me.

Ignoring the horrific subject matter anyone have any thoughts or pointers (apart from "Find a better model")?

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I took a similar picture of a friend of mine, who is also a bit hair challenged, a while back and after we played around with it we found that cropping down to about an inch or so over the eye brows focused the composition onto the face rather than the top the head. The other composition that we tried was to step away and get the shoulders, chest and more space over the top of the head into shot. That seemed to balance out the shot and bring the focus to the face.
 
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MacRy

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Apr 2, 2004
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I took a similar picture of a friend of mine, who is also a bit hair challenged, a while back and after we played around with it we found that cropping down to about an inch or so over the eye brows focused the composition onto the face rather than the top the head. The other composition that we tried was to step away and get the shoulders, chest and more space over the top of the head into shot. That seemed to balance out the shot and bring the focus to the face.
Hair challenged? There's loads of hair in that picture! Just rotate it 180 degrees and it's perfectly normal ;)

Thanks for the tips.
 
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