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11/14/2006 07:22:33 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club: I have been assigned your photo to critique and here are my thoughts:
Personal Reaction: My initial reaction to your photo was very positive. Good looking model. Thoughtful pose. Very good photo.
Composition: Composition is excellent. It really brings attention to the eye, and then to the rest of the face. The shoulder in the background diminishes this a bit. I am sure it is an optical illusion, but the shoulder looks folded forward unnaturally, almost like it is someone else’s shoulder. A bit distracting.
Technicals: Lighting is excellent. Good DoF although blurring the shoulder a bit more might have helped, either with shallower DoF or with Gaussian blur. Color is interesting. There is a bit of a color cast. I am wondering if it would be better with a conversion to B&W. And if possibly subsequent conversion to Sepia would have strengthened it. A third possibility would be to use a Hue/Saturation layer and take out a little bit of yellow. I don’t have the original to play with but you might try that.
Conclusions: Excellent image. It’s publication or advertising worthy and deserved a higher score than it received in my opinion. Color cast and shoulder treatment probably cost you 1-2 points in voting. You are pretty new to DPC. I hope you will remain an active participant. I like you style and would like to see more of it.
As always, this is my personal opinion. Feel free to PM me if you’d like further dialog.
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11/10/2006 05:05:20 PM |
| Brilliant. You got me. I must know the question! |
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11/08/2006 12:00:28 AM |
| great light. The left shoulder/ background seems disconnected from him though. |
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11/03/2006 08:37:54 PM |
| Why ?...Because the sky is blue. Come on now...cheer up...it can't be that bad! Nice use of low lighting. |
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11/03/2006 02:51:49 PM |
| Lighting sets the mood, tells the story! I will learn from you! :) |
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11/03/2006 01:35:05 PM |
| I would like to see this in B/W also. |
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11/02/2006 02:06:57 PM |
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11/02/2006 06:43:26 AM |
| great title matches the expression...very nice |
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11/01/2006 11:16:39 AM |
| excellent mood, I love this kind of portraits a lot. |
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11/01/2006 04:38:43 AM |
| I'm not sure about the yellow cast - I realize that's what you are going for but I think it might be a little too yellow |
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11/01/2006 02:07:33 AM |
| I love the drama in this... love the shadows, the contrasts and the mood: I just find it too orange/red and leaning to the warm glow saturation...hints of "morning and a new day, and hope etc as opposed to loss and the coldness of despair...but that's just a personal respones...nothing to do with technical insights :) |
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