Hello from the critique club
An interesting image that contributes to the challenge
Aah, the lovely ice queen! Whatever the light she will always make an impact, though I have to say my initial reaction on first seeing this was not so positive. Whilst the lighting certainly makes for a unique image, the image noise and shadows are not doing her any favours, its leaving her looking bruised above and below the eye and on the nose. To counter those negatives your focus with this lovely shallow depth of field is spot on, ‘the eyes have it’, together with the nose and lips. Your cropping is necessarily tight to minimise the effect of the strongly coloured red light in the background but its not a huge issue in an obviously brightly coloured setting. |