After the 30 Day self portrait, I can ot tell you how sick I am of my own face.
I was inspired to try something "pretty", since I never have. I don't hate it, and thats alright for me...I just hope you all are kind :)
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I scored this image an 8 because it struck me as a great self portrait. I don't know you well but for this moment in time the camera caught you I felt I did and that's what makes a good self portrait, IMO.
And for that effort what does DPC do in typical fashion? It places it 183rd. Good grief. Most of the images that ranked ahead of this could only dream of the substance this had but alas we as a community just want our daily fix of exploding landscape backdrops, cool looking props and super tack sharp eyeballs that were dodged and burned to mathematical perfection. It would be great if ONE TIME a challenge rewarded authenticity over the constant illusions that ribbon each week.
Edited to add: Sorry about the rant. Just had to vent a bit. :) Oh and btw, there's nothing technically with your photo in my opinion. To me it lives and breathes and tells a thousand words and that is all any photographer/photoshop artist could hope to acheive so well done!
Colors look cross processed or something. It is sort of a neat effect if intentional. Hope you don't get too many negative comments about it. With advanced editing, you could have darkened the upper and lower left corners to help keep the viewer's eye from falling out of the frame.
One good thing about being able to use a 720 px image size is the possibility to use a decent border without having to decrease the image size too much as in the normal 640 px challenges. Here you have shown it can be done well. A Fitting border to a good image!
I like how your arm frames this. I also like the faded colors. One suggestion would be to selectively mute that blue a bit that's framed by your arm and face. It stands out too much, IMO.
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