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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ohkphoto" data-source="post: 32289" data-attributes="member: 1573"><p>Will, I'm curious as to why you had them looking away from you instead of at you and interacting with you.  It's very clear in the last pic that Brad was fighting the urge to look at you.  As they are, the photos lack any kind of authentic emotion, the poses are stiff.  Eyes are so important in portraits.  Unless there is something really powerful going in the scene, you almost always have to have the eyes visible, and looking at or toward the camera.  My favorite of the group is the third one.  It shows part of his environment, you're got a little bit of nice lighting on his hair, now imagine if he were laughing and looking at the camera.</p></blockquote><p></p>