First entry ever, so be honest!
tube light behind a closed door, lied on my cement and went at it... took pictures i mean.
a few dozen shots later and voila!
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Camera Work/Technical: I agree with you on the focus. Self-portraits are often very difficult, especially in low light conditions. The focus you captured is very nice for a 10 second exposure, but just in the wrong spot. You captured great detail in the hair, as well as the door texture.
Lighting: Very nice and very moody. Great exposure control with the lighting that you chose.
Composition/Content: You did a very nice job with creating a composition that leads the viewer's eye into the frame. The door texture serve as great leading lines toward the brightness and then the face. I think cropping a bit more off the top would have helped this one out.
My Opinion: I think some selective desaturation or toying with the toning of the image would have helped you out with the voters. This one would have worked nicely with a grungy type of feel. I think that this one had more scoring potential with just some slight tweaks.
Thanks for the votes everyone, i am a bit unsatisfied myself with the focus (it being on my hair) for those who didn't know, this is a self portrait shot in the dark which i used an object to guestimate the focus i needed on myself. all in all, i'm satisfied with it for a first entry shot, thanks for the comments and i'd love to hear more
Great shot
nice detail in the door, great expression on the face and great overall exposure! A very tricky picture to take.Great example for single light source
Cool idea. One thing you may want to try is to show something on the other side via a shadow to raise the tension in this shot. Might not quite work in a still frame shot like this but I'm thinking like in a movie when a shadow suddenly appears.
Definetely mental. More sharpness on lips and fingers would improve it - feels like focal plane is a bit too far out. But what it lacks technically it certainly has in emotion.
The strongest focal point seems to be on the hair - I think if you had kept the eyes the strnogest focus point it would be better. Nice use of shallow DOF. Interesting idea - provokes emotion to a some degree
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