Mandy, I gave this a 9 during voting. It's always a pleasure to see a photo of you or yours during voting. I honestly have know idea why this scored a 5.2. You are one of the most inspiring photographers on this site IMHO. Keep your chin up girl YOU ROCK!
Well. . .I LOVE the overall softness of the image. I think it is beautiful! I was shocked to see this with a 5.27 score. I've come to fear doing portraits for this crowd. . .they are BRUTAL unless you are a Librodo.
Nice soft image. Wind-swept hair is always a cool look IMO. Great cropping and tonality. Only change - I would have liked the eyes to be just a little sharper - not oversharpened though, but just a little more to really make the beautiful colors in the eyes pop! Bumping up.
I guess this was one of the ones you were experimenting with on your new 20d (yay!). I think maybe if you'd added more fuzzyness in an action or something, maybe something akin to goth glow (I can tell you how to approximate if you dont have CS/CS2), and tried to sharpen the eyes a bit manually, you may have pulled this one off. For me, it just looks out of focus right now. Learning new equipment sucks, hope you get in your groove soon and turn out what I know you're capable of doing. I love the pose and the windblown hair though. Good luck!
I like the composition and the lighting for the most part, but it seems like the focus is on the strands of hair in front, which is unfortunate since the DOF is as shallow as it is.
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