This is Ornella, she has modeled for me before, in the DPC Cinema challenge.
Anyway, this is not shot for this challenge but I thought it fitted pretty well so I decided to enter it, mainly just to get my quota this year over 52 and to get warmed up for the WPL3 season, I like this shot but don´t think it´s "wow" enough to do really well in the challenge. Only lighting is a silver reflector to her left, we took this shortly before sunset so the ambient light was very good.
As usual, Henny came along but this time she didn´t do the makeup, we were pressed for time and Ornella is pretty good doing her own makeup so we let her do it but Henny held the reflector so she was a big help as usual :)
Only processing was WB adjustment and contrast in raw, curves, brightened up her eyes and sharpened after resizing.
Edited after the challenge: Well this just goes to show you that you should always submit when you like the shot as you never know, most of my ribbons, all of them actually, come from shots that I like but wasn´t sure were going to do well so just follow your gut feeling and go for it...
As for the comments about the dark backround in the upper corners, I disagree that the photo looks better with it cropped out, I actually experimented with different crops without it in the post processing steps but I felt the photo lost it´s three dimensionality when I did that and felt very "studio like" so I didn´t bother. Seems at least a few of you still thought it was a studio shot, it´s taken on location, outdoors.
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Fantastic picture and worthy of the blue. I can't believe 2 people actually gave 1's. As if there were further need of proof that trolls exist. Congrats.
A masterful capture wherein the model's face seizes the very moment and holds it with that gaze. Outstanding work, Larus! Congratulations on your BLUE.
Absolutely should be a winner in my opinion! Very exotic! I love her eyes, (she is very beautiful) and how they contrast against the softness of the fur! I love it!
Great lighting and tone in the face. I don't like the background so much (it's not perfectly horizontal as-is, but I might have also preferred solid color, or a real-but-blurred background.) Still, excellent work!
I really love the look she's giving me – erm, you. Ve-ry beguiling.
Having cropped this with my hand I absolutely need to see this without that dark, wonky band at the top. When it's gone she really zings and her eyes are so much stronger. I also think that perfect symmetry here would have been good, so losing that hand may have been better, or rather including the other one to accentuate what she's wearing. This does work well for landscape in my view, but probably would be more potent with as tighter crop.
Lovely portrait. The coat, hood and white background really draw my attention to the face and particularly the very intense eyes. I'm impressed. Bumped to 10.
Beautiful photograph of a beautiful and striking model. I'm particularly fond of the contrast between the face area and the rest of the picture. Good job!
I know everyone is busy judging/voting on the other contest but for what it's worth, I thought this deserved at least someone's comments- this is a GREAT shot. The color, the eyes, the framing, everything is superior. Congrats- I have something to shoot for. 10.
wow, beautiful model and pose!
would have liked to see her hair a little brighter and maybe you could have cropped off this distracting brown background.
an 8 though
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