taken with 28-75mm lens....the eyes are made of coloured glass...which i stuck in the sockets...and took the photo against the natural light...which made the eyes stand out ..
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This image isn't as clear and colorful as I would have expected. The feathers look very hazy. Can you reshoot this with less harsh lighting and post it to your portfolio? - 4
Unique concept challenging the viewer to carefully consider exactly what the fantasy is. Generally the colors are good and the firey eyes are the strength of the composition. This image has no hot spots that hurt the composition.
Meets the challenge but some voters probably will not think it all that exciting. Who cares about them, anyway? :)
A few technical things...
The mask is slightly off center and tilted downward on the right side. The human eye wants subconciously to correct for those things and even if the viewer does not conciously recognize it they will be bothered. It is more pleasing to the viewer if the mask is absolutely centered and the frame rotated slightly counterclockwise for leveling.
The chin is right at the bottom on the frame. You might consider raising it in the frame so the chin is not so close to the edge. You might consider recomposing for the rule of thirds for added visual interest.
The color of the eyes unnaturally bleeds over onto the rest of the mask. This may be purposeful for effect but most viewers will probably interpret this as an image defect. You can easily clone around the edge of the eyes to remove edge effect and that might even make the eyes seem more intense after the edge distraction is removed.
The biggest issue is with contrast. If you apply a simple autocontrast adjustment you will see a vast improvement that adds considerable "pop" to the composition. It could, however, result in lost detail so you may want to experiment with various techniques to improve the contrast without significant loss of detail.
i think you would have impast of the image and mask if it was on all white or all black .. probably more on all white ... and i wish the glowing part was more in focus
This doesn't need the addition of the fiery eyes. Theres enough matierial without that over the top element.
The rest of the image just needs a bit of hard directional light from the left. With the left half of the face in bright ligh and the right side in shadow.
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