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Portrait Pro for the skin
Brushed on some makeup
Darkened hair with brush
slight vingetting with brush
USM
resize
NI
sharpen 1x
history brush back to NI on hair and some skin
Added a soft light layer in black and tweaked it down to kill the hot spot on the shoulder.
Post challenge:
YAYYYY!! 26th place!!! :)
Here is the original:
Thanks for all the great comments!!
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JOJO... Great pose but I think the WB is off some. Looks like a lot of reddish tint. The BG is perfect for this style shot and it makes you stand out perfectly. Good luck with the challenge.
Get rid of the neclasse, and the feel will be contagious. Good light, nice attack look, clever smile (it's not a smile, but a kind of an inviting and immediately dismissing thing; if you know how to call it, please let me know).
Magazine worthy shot. Colors excellent, matches to your hair; it's difficult not to vote high... such a beautiful face with very good settings. Good job :)
Wow. Excellent photo, but after looking at it for a while, I get a little bit on an Excorcist feel, like your head will keep turning all the way around.
The black strap over your shoulder is a little distracting. Maybe without it you would give the viewer a sense of "wondering".
Ok, that sounds bad. I don't mean that at all, I'm just saying it's a dark contrast line. I like the expression on your face!
...good! So good! Great looking portait JOJO. Excellent lighting and color. You look great as well. New hair color? ;) You sure have a flexibile kneck. Wouldn't have minded the body be rotated just a bit more to your left, into a tad more relaxing pose? This is your best SP yet.
Is that TCGuru? The face says yes but the hair doesnt look like any pictures I have seen of you before (If it isnt then please accept apologies but you do look very similar)
I really like this SP, it feels challenging and mischievious at the same time and I love the fact that your smile plays not only on your lips but also your eyes (which like a few in the challenge are all the better for appearing to look at the viewer rather than the camera) Super colouring as well, soft without being vague.
I think you over did it with the noise reduction on her face. Her skin has a nice natural texture on her arms, but the face looks like plastic unfortunately. It almost looks as though it were cut and put there. Next time I would leave in a little more detail, lines and what not...they add to the beauty IMO.
This is a very pretty shot of you! Well done. I love your hair. I just have the feeling like... I wish either your head was up a bit or your shoulder was more open to the camera, or both maybe, something about the pose just strikes me as odd. I think it's because your shoulder her so straight in line with your head that they compete for attention, and your face should be the focus.
So Far this is probably the best Photo I have marked in this challenge, Its really difficult shooting yourself because of how we feel about our own reflections.
You appear to be very photogenic and will do well here, if I was to make a Point I would have changed your Body Angle a Little.
Good Luck !
I think you way over edited the skin on your face, it would work if you had continued the smoothing onto your shoulder but the freckles are so cute and the texture is so nice i would love to see it in your face as well, you have really cool hair
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