A Poet as a Photographer.

Willow Skye by Willow Skye from her 'Photo in Nature' series shot in Nevada City, CA. 

Photographer, Jack Woolley Jr. retouched and cropped this photo.

This photograph below received professional critiques. They were pack full of insights I'd like to share for any interested. 

Photographer Willow Skye from June's photo shoot at the SRF 

in Mt. Washington, Los Angeles, California. (2018).

"There are many challenges in the world, it's good to see you're taking on yours Willow :).

Since you're doing both, it's definitely worth exploring and learning both aspects in detail. In the case of photography, you can study aspects of photography - lighting, composition, technology, framing, lenses - with any subject, regardless of whether it's a person. This learning can be applied to your self portraiture. 

Equally, your study of modelling and figure can be enhanced by understanding yourself in a mirror, or by studying posing and doing figure studies in other genres. In this case for instance, we can say that on a photographic side, you've exposed your camera too much for the shadows in the image, so we're losing the information in the highlights. The human eye is attracted to the highlights in the image first (This is a biomechanical thing) as a result the core subject of the image is your hands! The colour balance I think could have been nice, there's a lovely glow around your face reflecting from the nearby surfaces, but again because of the overexposure of the light it's not taken advantage of. Additionally, the camera seems to be set to auto white balance which means it's allowed some of the green cast from the nearby plants to come into the skin tones which is a bit unflattering. 

That's just a couple points. But as you can see they are isolated enough that you could probably learn to notice them from shooting anything or trying to match other photographic works as exercises.

Photography is a very challenging field, there are potentially hundreds of things to consider in an image. It's good to see you working at it."- Noir Zy 



Suzanne Silva noted: "Technically speaking I think your highlights are a bit out of wack. The color is not looking quite right. Your face seems a bit to yellow and blown out. I think it may be hard to adjust your settings when you are the model time and time again. You are a lovely woman, but try working with other models so you can hone your skills more accurately or find another photographer to work with so you can photograph each other and and work together. I’m not trying to be unkind. I hope it is not taken that way."