The idea for this photo is from 'Dark Portrait', from the Complementary Colors IV challenge.
I commented during voting on this image saying that I liked the idea, and that sharpness would help the image a lot.. How cool that I actually got a chance to recreate it!
This is my wife who gratiously posed for me. I'm happy with how this turned out!
Editting included some minor cloning, a few layers to make the makeup stand out more, some overall colour adjustments,
levels, UM, resize, UM, border, Save for Web.
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Place: 24 out of 73 Avg (all users): 6.0714 Avg (commenters): 7.1000 Avg (participants): 5.9744 Avg (non-participants): 6.1089 Views since voting: 1746 Views during voting: 397 Votes: 140 Comments: 12 Favorites: 1 (view)
Love the very slight color contrast between her skin and hair and the wall. Wish the slightly darker and smaller shadow of her head could have been dealt with.
I like that you used the actual complementary colors - your lighting could have been better... or maybe you used photoshop to turn your background orange. the orange seems to be flooding onto your model and shadow looks odd. your focus seems pretty good and I like the composition
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