I give a big thank you to my male Arabic friend who posed for this shot. Staring into a spotlight for a long period of time had him seeing blue spots for many minutes after the shot! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
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I thought of this shot and thought that it would be perfect for the challenge "Camouflage" since it is actually a guy looking or camouflaged as a Middle Eastern woman. Even if it was a woman, she would still be camouflaged with the head dress.
Again, thank you to my friend who put on the makeup and stared into a spotlight for me. I'm sure I'll owe him for this one! A blue ribbon might just do the trick!
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Great photo. Looks like something right out of National Geographic. I'm not sure concealment qualifies as camouflage unless it's using the the background of its environment to conceal though,
Very tempting eyes. Though remember if you show a face of a human or an animal.... the eyes can never be out of focus! We are predators and that's where eventually we'll look. It's a bad thing especially on a shot like this to have eyes out of focus. This doesn't work for this picture. It's not helping.
I like the idea and I assume that next time you will keep the eyes in sharp focus. So I give you a 9 :)
Not really fond of the short DOF here as it works out that the eye to the right is out of focus. If you had to have the aperture so big I would rather have it the other way around, the eye to the right in focus and the one to the left out of focus as my vision is more drawn to the eye to the right. Shot itself is good but need something to make it "pop" more.
George? IS that you? Just kidding! Great shot, fantastic lighting and the eyes are very expressive. The only thing I can really nit pick you on is the focus, would have preferred to seen it on the closer eye and not the bridge of the nose. But other wise I have nothing to complain about so you get a 9!
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