DNTM Week 3 Critiques

Go support the photo blog: https://www.kovaze.com/blog/91162. Dimitra Well ladies….. I must say as a whole, I am disappointed. With a big celebrity guest judge Sin here this week I would have expected more from you. This is week 3, and we should be stepping our games up, but collectively this photo shoot was a step backwards. With that in mind its time for your individual evaluation (given as a fan I am not a real judge!) First up, Biancabae: I’m happy to see your eyes open this week. I think this is a good commercial photo that could sell a bottle of 9.99 perfume, but the challenge was high fashion and luxury brand. You look great in this photo (minus the lost leg) but to me it shows me you may need to study more high fashion magazines. MissChloeKay: The pose is great, I love the styling choice, and a straight to camera look with the intensity in your eyes goes a long way to help this photo. Cutting off the legs with this pose does make you look shorter than you are, and overall you look a lot different here than in your other photos. Was it makeover week? NicoRobin: your back does move! The first strong pose you have given us. I think you got the styling of this photo half right, but the bathrobe isn’t giving high fashion and editing in that spray makes this photo lose a bit of the high fashion element. If you had held the bottle in the other hand it would make more sense but right now you are spraying your face, not your neck… Your neck is GIVING though and it really saves the photo. Fiji: I have come to expect a lot from you already in this competition. With that said, this photo is good, but not living up to your potential. I like the pose, and your face is strong here, but the composition of the photo brings this down quite a bit for me. It is not high fashion luxury like the challenge asked for. Ralts023: This is a cool photograph. But the assignment wasn’t cool perfume photo, it was high fashion luxury…. Like a lot of the girls, we need to study! This photo could have been top photo if you took out the lightning, gave us a bit more of a passionate look on your face, and maybe let the bottle sit on the bike instead of holding it to camera. Desh: this is one of the first photos so far that actually gives high fashion. You look amazing here, but your expression is lacking. There is nothing in the eyes, and nothing selling this perfume to me. I think a slight tilt in your head and some smizing would have taken this photo to the places it needed to go. Strong, but not your best work. ohEMgee: Coming from you, this photo is giving me the least in your face you have done so far this competition. With that said, it is still stronger than most of the other girls. The pose is elegant, the styling is good, but I would have liked to see full head to toe in the shot and the edited spray isn’t needed. Gabs: Face looks amazingly stunning, but that’s the only good thing about this photo. The rest of your choices here all take away from how great you look. The pose is wrong, the cropping out the feet is strange, and luxury brands would not sell a bottle of perfume that large. I want to see your full body in a shot, give us strength in the pose, and extend that neck a bit more. In a perfume ad, I am going to be looking at your neck and in this photo its looking really short. AngieKStan: You look high fashion in this photo (minus the stocking choice), but the pose is giving price is right girl, and your face is not giving the strength I’ve seen in your previous photos. You also lose a bit of neck here. With that said, something about this whole combination does work for me, but I would flip past this photo in a magazine and not remember it. In this case, the perfume bottle being extremely large works because its clear its not the bottle you would buy, and its clearly enlarged. Trueblood: This photo is lovely. You took a risk in the pose, and it paid off! Your body, garment, and hair all work together to create lines that are appealing to viewer and I would for sure stop on this photo sifting through a magazine. I would have loved this photo even more if the bottle was smaller. If the bottle had to be this big, I wouldn’t hold it level with your face. Otherwise, amazing job! Jessiejedi: This photo is cute. I wish everyone would have avoided the fake spray edit because it really really hurts you here since it crosses over your face. The styling isn’t exactly giving high fashion. I think if you had slicked your hair back, taken the glasses off, maybe even posed about to eat the raspberry this could have worked. Unfortunately, the choices here look like a school teacher spraying the raspberry farm with pesticides. The good news is, with a couple of simple tweaks you could have delivered a really strong concept and look. Jordie: At first glance this photo looks perfect, and for sure is one of the strongest in the bunch. Your face, pose, and composition choices all are very strong. Looking at the photo longer, I notice I would have liked your hair to not cover your neck, and I would like a little bit more of your lower half visible, but what we can see of you is amazing! Melanie: this photo is your best so far. The only girl to give us the right product placement, true luxury high fashion, and amazing face. The pose is a bit weak still, I would have loved to see your left leg extended out a bit more and your hand not placed on your hip, but overall this photo is good. My rankings Trueblood Jordie Melanie Desh MissChloeKay Fiji ohEMgee NicoRobin AngieKStan Biancabae Ralts023 Jessiejedi Gabs