Natural lighting is the best lighting. In photoshop, I edited curves, color balance, as well as saturation in order to enhance/emphasize the foreground (pills). Kind of (definitely) a last-minute set up, but I like how it turned out.
I'm not so good at portraitures, but I like this person-subject because the subject isn't actually the person, it's the idea. Oh-ho-ho.
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I don't think most people got the smile, despite the title. I think it works perfectly and adds a real edge to the meaning of the photo as well.
A photo like this will never score well here, but that's not because it's a bad photo, rather it's because it's not "pretty", in fact it's quite the opposite, it's grim and disturbing.
I think you have pulled off an excellent shot, don't be put off by the low score!
I like a lot of things about this image. I like the placement of the hand and pills; I like the slightly out of focus face and I really like the blank stare in her eyes. I think the slightly edgy color adds to the mood. I like the diagonal of her hand that takes the viewer from the brightly color pills to her face.
I think I might have cropped a little tighter on the right and get rid of the pill, I'm a bit distracted by that, a nit though. I think the hand is just a little too large here, maybe if you'd backed up and used a longer lens it would have compressed the image a bit. Not to say it's wrong as is because there is artistic merit to it the way it is as well. I agree with the commenter regarding the expression and think I would have rather seen the mouth expressionless like the eyes.
I didn't vote in this challenge, but would have given this an eight.
I think this was voted down for reasons other than the quality of the image. I think many didn't connect it to the challenge, and many do not like this subject matter - I've seen it happen before.
It does indeed. Just because we think we know someone does not make it so and
you are so correct - Human Beings are delicate in all sorts of ways not always apparent by our Masques.
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