Shot taken of my wife posing in the Riverbanks Garden in Columbia, SC.
- RAW conversion to JPG
- Resize
- Saturation
- Auto Contrast
- Shadows and Highlights
- USM
- Heal some minor facial imperfections
- Burn and Dodge
- Border
- Save for Web
Statistics
Place: 51 out of 251 Avg (all users): 6.1013 Avg (commenters): 7.5000 Avg (participants): 6.0917 Avg (non-participants): 6.1111 Views since voting: 1379 Views during voting: 359 Votes: 237 Comments: 24 Favorites: 0
Over all image impact is strong, the background out of focus helps draw your eye to the subject. The expression on her face is relaxed and pleasing. All this makes for a good out door portrait. Perhaps a vertical framing would have been a little better. That would let the subject fill more of the frame.
The image appears to be a bit (candy color) in your comments you indicate that the image was enhanced by - Saturation - Auto Contrast - Shadows and Highlights. I have noticed a tendency to over saturate images; a portrait in most cases does not need much saturation. Too much saturation and contrast tend to make the flesh tones look (candy color). Not to say that this is not a good portrait, however I think if you were to use less saturation and contrast you may see the difference. Some time less is better.
Over all I would say well done, keep up the good work.
Nice vibrant colors and good happy person you get to photography, the placement of the subject in the centre usually doesn’t do it for me but I like how the rails add a symmetry effect to the whole photo. So it actually works well in this case, besides that it's a very sharp photo with a good DOF. Keep up the good work!
Challenge: 10 has a person meets my criteria
Composition: 7 Just to centered I think if you would have put the model on the left more or the right the use of the background would have been good.
Creativity: 8 I like how you used the bridge in perspective but once again too centered
Technical: 10 The shot is very sharp
Overall: 8
Very pretty subject, nice depth of field. I would move to one sode or the other, though, as it's just too symmetrical for me. It looks a bit like the bridge walls are growing out of her ears. [8]
Beautiful! The focus is lovely, and I adore the colours. Beautiful bokeh with that pretty background so nicely blurred. Sharpness on the subject is excellent, and I like that she's positioned perfectly in line with the bridge. This is really a lovely photo - nice work!
perfect expression nice pose fastionable clothing great composition framing saturation.. could possibly be darker in blacks but that dosn't take away from the overall awesomeness of this photo
What a wonderful photo. Colour, focus all excellent. I particulary like the position of the subject. Some say you should never centre subjects but thats all rubbish, it works great here.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
