We shot this photo late in the park. I was trying to get a mysterious view of my beautiful model's profile. This was handheld in very low light, as she was posing on the playground slide. The grain was intentional, and I wanted to show just enough of her features and detail to keep the viewer interested. Converted RAW file with minor adjustments to sharpness and white balance. When as JPEG I adjusted levels, boosted the contrast, increased saturation a bit, applied USM, and cloned out some of her right cheek that was showing just below her nose, cropped to remove some hot sun in the lower left corner. We'll see if it worked.
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I really like the pose and outline of the subjects face. I wish you didn't have such a tight crop and included more of the OOF sky and sunset behind your subject (i.e. zoom out and convert to landscape). Good Luck.
This is so beautiful! One of my favorites of the challenge! I love how distinctly you can see her eyelashes. Such sharpness! I love the colors in the sky too! 10
There's still too much detail in the face for a true silhouette. This, for me, is a touch frustrating as I can see a much better and much more appealing photo here if you lighten the face a lot. I suspect that you tried to force the challenge theme here. A potentially very, very nice photo for a different time. 4
Very nice shot. There's a little too much visible detail for me to truly be able to call this a silhouette. Great composition and nice colors in the sunset.
Good silhouette. Nice and dark subject with a good crisp edge. I feel that two thinks are a little off on this one. First the silhouette takes up too much of the image I would like to have seen more of the background. Secon the angle of the model just dosn't seem quite right. Over all not a bad shot that is still better than the average. Nice job!
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