of this model. Sorry I like to eat my home cooking
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Ok, time for a reality check. First of all, you're just showing off again and you're still too busy being "mesmerized" to notice the problems with your photos, and especially while your shooting them, which is where you have the most control.
Have you ever wondered if you would get the same compliments from the drooling knuckle draggers here if your pictures were of an unattractive woman? Try it sometime. Photograph an unattractive woman (or man), post a few of the best images here (galleries) and see what happens.
In your photos, the blacks are too black and the whites are blown in several of them. There's also some awful CA in the limbs of the trees in the backgrounds in some of them. In some, the sky color is a weird blue and some of the backgrounds you chose, like the fountain(?) are distracting and just plain bad.
The woman is beautiful but these pictures look like snapshots and could have been taken with just about any camera.
Lighting is under your control, but only if you take control of it. Model photography takes a great understanding of light/lighting and you'll have to use the proper gear to get it right (reflectors/flash, etc.). Also, the exact spot you choose to place your model (and how she poses), and how the light hits her and the background is critical to getting a high quality shot. Gear can only do so much and you need the ability to
see what it will take to get the best out of the circumstances and your model. The gear can't see or think for you.
HLP (or a 5D2) isn't going to make a mediocre photo into a great one, and a pretty girl doesn't automatically make a photo great either. Start thinking with your big head instead of your little one.
By the way, why aren't you posting your stuff on modelmayhem or another similar site? Do you really want to learn, or just show off pretty models here on a gear forum?
