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01/23/2005 07:58:39 PM |
Nice candid shot. My one nit is the composition. It's way too centered for me. If you have a few minutes, try a couple of different crops and see what you think.
1. Crop off the left side about where her arm (outside) intersects the bottom of the image. The light behind her will be an issue (it already is) since it will draw the eye. It can be burned in, though, so it's less distracting. This would be a more pedestrian crop.
2. The second, and more active crop (imo) would be to crop from the right and the top, so her head is in the the upper left of the image slightly, and her gaze is to the upper right hand corner. Her gaze will push the viewer's eye to that corner, amd make them wonder what she's looking at. The light behind her will then be an anchor that pulls the viewer's eye back from the upper right corner before it leaves the image. A less common, and therefore more 'fresh' crop, imo.
Just my thoughts.
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01/16/2005 10:00:57 PM |
| Nice. Better without the light on the snow. |
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01/15/2005 01:36:56 PM |
| You have a nice shot here, but I think you would benefit by some composition improvements. First, study the Rule of Thirds. The head of your subject is smack dab in the middle. You don't want that. In terms of the theme, you don't seem to be getting enough Bokeh, shallow DOF. Great use of lighting though. Good luck! |
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01/13/2005 05:36:03 PM |
| Interesting picture but where's the bokeh? The fence may be a bit out of focus, but is that enough to meet this challenge? 5. |
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01/11/2005 10:46:55 AM |
| Not really bokeh, just shallow dof. |
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01/10/2005 06:26:07 PM |
| Great shot. not sure if the backround enhances your subject in a "bokeh" fashion but really lovely capture. |
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01/10/2005 02:14:01 PM |
| The short definition of Bokeh from KenRockwell.com, which I am using for voting on this challenge: "Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light." This doesn't really show much in the way of bokeh. Is the subject enhanced by the bokeh of the background? Somewhat. Though the photo is small, which will lower your score. |
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01/10/2005 12:04:54 PM |
| I see nothing that represents bokeh to me, nice portrait though |
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01/10/2005 11:11:02 AM |
| no bekeh here, but nice picture |
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