I completely desaturated the red, magenta, and green colors, lowered the saturation for the yellows, and slightly raised the saturation for cyans and blues. I then adjusted levels, cropped and resized for submission.
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Nice portrait though I am not keen on the grey pallor of the skin... I assume you've desaturated reds or something? I think I'd prefer to see this with more life in the skin. I really like the choice of background.
There's a really delicate, subtle, warm beauty to this photo. I can see you desaturated the red channel to get this effect. Great work. The lighting is very soft and the composition is strong. The expression on the face is kind of innocent and dreamy. I like this a lot.
I find the background too distracting, it overpowers the image too much. The focal point should be the blue eyes, but they are hidden.
I do like the composition though, and the contrast between the face and the background is very strong.
The background being blue seems to take away from the eye being blue. If all the colors except blue were taken out of hte picture leaving the face black and white (which it seems) then the background is definately too distracting. It's hard to tell that the face is black and white, my eye sees a lot of color and sort of assumes the face should be colored too. a different background would make this shot better.
Beautiful profile of a beautiful child. Would like to see just a very little more eye, not much just a little more. But beautifully done. Would be an 8 for me. PTL
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