A model/t-shirt shoot. Shooting for a Start-up T-shirt company. And also a shoot for the model.
Post Processing:
UnSharpen Masked
Desaturation of whites of eyes
Desaturation of blacks of eyes
Selective color - added blue and green to Iris\'
Color Burned to outline iris\'
Flattened and Blurred to blend
Slightly added contrast to entire picture
Statistics
Place: 127 out of 132 Avg (all users): 4.3873 Avg (commenters): 4.1250 Avg (participants): 4.0141 Avg (non-participants): 4.5865 Views since voting: 1574 Views during voting: 508 Votes: 204 Comments: 19 Favorites: 0
From the critique club
Light; highlights blown out on the left, witch would be okay if the background was cleaner and more light on her face.
You could clean the background up with Photoshop since this was an advanced editing challenge.
The pose seems kind of awkward when you crop a part of her head of.
The eyes seem out of focus, it suits it better to have them in focus. And she has very pretty eyes.
Nice PP on the eyes and the colors are lovely.
The composition would be quite nice with the whole head in the picture.
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This is a great subject - not one you normally think of regarding procrastination, but it happens so much! I love the way the girl works, but the right side really bothers me... I'm not sure cropping it would have helped, either, because her face is positioned perfectly where it is.
I suggest reshooting if you can. Try not to cut off the top of her head. That kind of crop works well when you're in tight, but here it just looks off. Also watch out for bright backgrounds. Finally, look for better focus.
One has to read the title, and the challenge discription, and think about it for a second... and then it hits you.
This is not top notch photography, technically speaking. I'm not going to go into the technical problems with this photo, because I'm sure other commenters will. But for me, the tehnical rawness of the capture adds to the feeling of shyness, of subversion required to get the photo, of dispair of the photographer for never being able to talk to this girl.
A 10 from me, though I doubt you'll get out of the bottom quarter of the challenge, because so many voters here don't look past the glitz and flash and moderate oversaturation. Keep taking photos that mean something.
I'm not sure how her facial expression, the messege on her shirt and the title all fit together. Something feels off for me. I'm guessing that the blown out right side was done on purpose but its not really adding anything to the photo for me.
The technicals are pretty off. The head is chopped off, the background is blown out, and the focus could be better. However... all of that actually adds up, for me, to a good image. I just really like it. It is not the everyday portrait and I am liking that uniqueness.
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