This actually is miss Iceland 2005, she won the title about 1 week ago or the 20th of may and her name is Unnur Birna and she is 21 years old. I have been taking a couple of shots for the people that produce the miss Iceland pageant and this among other shots were taken as promotion material to put on their webpage amongst other things. One of the few times I take a shot and make it fit the challenge, I am curious to see how it goes but both me and her like this shot so I hope you will too.
This is only lit with a single 580ex and an umbrella from the right side and triggered with a transmitter. The backround was lit by ambient lights so I burned them out. Used healing brush, curves and unsharp mask and cropped slightly off the image.
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There's a strange sense of the unnatural to this shot - in her expression: like she might just, perhaps, behind the make-up, be tired of smiling. I think it's the absolutel lack of any lines of expression around the eyes, the slight sininess of the make-up there. I quite like this idea of the character showing from behind the mask, but it's too subtle to make me belive it's genuinely deliberate.
Nice photo. The only thing I would point is that her skin seems to be over-sharpened.. specially around the eyes (looks grainy ). there was some tutorial by jonpink about portraits and retouching face, you may like to see that...
Very good work
Beautiful girl. I would suggest a little less straight on approach to add interest and reduce the shadows. and maybe a light behind her to highlight her hair and keep it from falling into the background. Nice skin tones.
the lighting seems a bit off here, especially on the right side of her face; it seems too dark in comparison to the lighting on the left side of her face.
The septer is a nice touch - makes this photo stand out from other portraits. Wish we could see either more or less of her dress, the bit peeking into the frame draws your eyes away from her face.
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