Edits
RAW/Nef
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Levels
Curves
Brightness/Contrast
Heal over some minor skin blemish's / Right earing shine
Crop
Minor clone over chair back bottom left hand corner and removal 2 annoying hairs.
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Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.
First Impression - the most important one: A nice portrait, but doesn't seem quite studio to me.
Composition: The crop is just a very little bit tight for a traditional portrait. It's not bad though.
Subject: This is just part of my template. The subject is clearly seperated from the b/g though.
Technical (Color, focus, and light): All good, but I'd like to see a little more USM in your post process.
To grow its vote?: Hard challenge, but I think a more solid background would have given it the studio look the voters were looking for.
Summary: OK, it seems that I may sound a bt negative in my critiue so far. But, I like this portrait. It shows a very flattering photo of your sis with much character. All-in-all, I think you took a great photo of her.
The lighting and focus on your subject is really good, but the background fence is a bit of a distraction. The crop used, head only, does not lend to a portrait feeling which might hurt you for this challenge. So, another approach might be a more shallow depth of field. to better blur the background, and a crop to include more shoulders and torso.
Photography is many things, maybe, but a portrait's a portrait and this one is most remarkable for the way in which the camera and the subject seem to have come to an agreement - made a deal - and it's a good one.
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