Really nice portrait and deviating nicely from the usual serious poses one tends to associate with portraits. Love the composition and the wonderful mood created here. Good job on the lighting, too. Nice how your mood and smile mirrors that of the sculpture. Find this picture very classy and original. Again, i have the sense that this picture captures the real you very well. That sculpture you have is great and a fantastic prop!
That's really the pits about these challenges. Perhaps as Magazine Cover it isn't the most suitable submission but as for self-portraits it should have garnered top 5. It's one of the reasons that i prefer lately to spend my time viewing/commenting on people's portfolios rather than on challenge submissions.
From what i'm seeing, you'll be able to pull a lot more good stuff out of the Minolta but you are also definitely worthy of better gear.
Did a google for "conehead digest", and this was the first hit. Unfortunately, I didn't find any other match. I'm one of those LMVs who expected a real magazine. If this is one, sorry. As a photo, I suppose if there were a conehead digest, this might as likely be a cover as anything else. I find the figure disturbing, but I suppose conehead types might find this appealing. 3
I looked it up, but "search for 'conehead digest' showed no results". Oh well. s'pose it could be real. anyway, the focus on the girl is way too soft for my personal liking. love the statue though. angle is good. the border is aweful. weather or not it's on the real magazine, it does not appeal to me at all.
Okay. The magazine appears to be made up, which is a shame. (Dubious title, and no result on google.) I wish you'd have come up with an existing magazine to go with it, but I'll give you credit for humor.
The shot is kind of interesting, real vs statue, though I don't know what the heck the topic of the cover story would be.
I think it would have been better to have either a different background or a different colour shirt; the shirt has a tendency to try to fade into the bg though I can see the line of the arm.
There's room for cover logo and copy. Assuming a full-bleed shot and the right colour copy it would work fairly well.
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