My friend Neira agreed to model for this shot... lighting was 4 or 5 lamps behind the umbrella and a lamp in front of her on the floor.
I bought this umbrella with the intention of using it in a photo shoot, and this challenge seemed to present a good opportunity.
Post processing: Neat image, levels, selective color, added the yellow to white gradation in the umbrella, cloned out some minor distracting elements and rendered a flare on top of the earring for extra sparkle.
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Hello from the Critique club, my name is Jon Rowe, and i will be looking at your image this evening :)
your model, and the pose, is absolutely breathtaking. such beauty. the only nitpic is it's overexposed. maybe if you could have defused the lights a little more, the backlighting wouldn't have taken over so much. i really think that possibly a faster shutter speed than 1/60th would have been better, maybe around 1/120 or so. this would have given a lot more crisp focus on her hair, and on her face as well, and toned down the lighting coming through the umbrella.
nonetheless, this is an absolutely gorgeous photo, and you did very well on it :) great score too :)
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