Newbie photographer in training [ Lots of diffrent figures ]

At first glace all I saw was the red truck. It hard get the artist intent when my attention is drawn to the wrong subject. While placing the subject off center is a powerful compositional tool, but it is SOO far from where you would look for the subject and there IS something there that is brighter in color and more detailed (if out of focus), Harley is just marginalized. Also, if she is supposed to be in the same environment as the truck. the lighting is coming from the wrong way. The truck is lit from center left. Harley is center right. If shes not supposed to be in that environment I'm not sure why the background image is there.

This photo takes a different perspective on this figure drawing attention to charming detail often overlooked in the face of her more "obvious assets". Her bright lighting is a sea of dark background effectively draw the eye to the details of the hair a jacket.

Her right elbow and crest of the headphones just touch the boarders of the image. I feel this makes the image feel more closed in and claustrophobic. I would pull back a little bit to give her some breathing room.

I also feel she should be looking off into "something" weather it be a city skyline or whatever, but just flat black feels. flat.

There is a shadow from the camera falling onto her, falling onto the exact detail that give the photo personality.

"Vash gives a wave and a smile as he turns to walk into the sunset on planet Gunsmoke."

That is a tight concise story told by placing him in a convincing environment and tying the figure into the environment believably with effective lighting.

the warm orange colors Vash is lit by mirror those of the light in the image. tho not lit exactly in the direction of the sun in the image, there is enough wraparound light on the rock in the photo to make this off center, low intensity light, believable.

For improvements, I'd say the depth of focus on Vash seems a little TOO short. If there's nothing too distracting in the background image.

In contrast to the Vash image, these two are pulled OUT of the image environment by inconsistent lighting. In the image the trees are 100% back light and exist only in gold silhouette. This image is very dramatic, and certainly a mood well suited for Gunslinger girls, but the girls themselves are lit by WHITE light, in the front.

I would recompose this image as having the two back to back, lit by the monitor itself. So the girls would both be in same dramatic silhouette as the background. and putting them in profile will keep the shapes of the faces recognizable.

Posing figures in front of a computer image is a great way to take figures to places we don't have access to, but the image you use sets the bar for you to raise to.

on a side note. it kinda looks like Henrietta is humping Triela.