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Little cloning out of distracting elements
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Toning of small piece of clothes
Gaussian blur added and ajusted
10 % desaturation
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Place: 2 out of 92 Avg (all users): 7.2716 Avg (commenters): 8.5472 Avg (participants): 7.1324 Avg (non-participants): 7.3257 Views since voting: 8159 Views during voting: 457 Votes: 243 Comments: 75 Favorites: 18 (view)
Superbe image really pleasing to look at, beautiful model nice natural pose, and superbe color treatment. favorites! Also congtrats for the well deserved ribbon!
Sorry to disappoint, but don't think the pics that nice. The tilt looks akward, and very unnatural. Definitely doesn't deserve a ribbion in my opinion. But oh well.
There's a lot I like about this portrait, but this above all: her gaze evokes the feeling of an honest connection, and that's all too uncommon. Creative pose, very well framed, lovely lighting and colouring, fine DoF control and sharpness. Excellent. 9
Awesome composition and pose! Love the lighting and tonality. THe background compliments the subject nicely. Great catchlight in the eyes and lips. Great job
TC
A very good portrait and interesting angle (probably top-20). The color on the left side looks great, but the yellow (blond) light seems to camouflage the subject rather than highlight. I think a more neutral light source would provide a better contrast.
Lighting: The light is well balanced with a good catchlight, but perhaps needed difused a bit more as its treatment of her skin is a bit harsh in places. The yellow cast works well with the hair, but not with the blue of th eyes and the reds of the skin and lips.
Pose: The pose works well.
Background: The yellow background works well against the hair, but the color-cast it is giving the rest of the image does not work for me as I mentioned above.
Lighting, color, pose are all great. Only tiny change I'd have made would be to clone out the lower catchlight in her right eye to make the pupils symmetrical.
Beautifully done, I love the slight color cast to it... definitely gives you a different feeling then if her eyes were pure white. I also like the different approach, very pretty... good luck.
this is my favorite portrait of the challenge. the model, the lighting, the colors are all spectacular. if there are any faults, im not qualified to find them but wouldnt care because this isnt science its art...hope you get the blue!
Absolutely a winner! A very unusual angle but wow! The colors you selected for the background are also perfect as is your use of two well-balanced light sources. I normally try to prove a suggestion for improvement - but I am at a loss for words. I expect you are heading for the land of ribbons.
Flattering angle, beautiful face, great composition. Yellow cast is a bit overpowering (I understand the blonde emphasis) but overall a lovely image. This little angel reminds me of a shot by Louison (the same perhaps??!). :)
This shot surprised me, a perfect example of why not to judge on the thumbnail. The thumbnail looked out of focus, but the shot is crisp and soft and quite lovely. 8
Beautiful Lighting! I love the soft look to this one, while still having sharp focus.
Pose doesn't do much for me, but it's not a distraction either.
Good job! 8
I think it is a winner
Great light, i love the pose, the eye is amazing, great color, just the perfect smile, and the right amount or detail-sharpness in the hair... a10
a lovely looking face - her hair is really complimented by the yellow background, so good choice there. and the pose is different enough to be interesting for that alone. eyes are nicely in focus (were they whitened up a bit?), though i would add that i think the soft focus is just marginally over done. but overall, well, a definite ribbon contender. 10.
Great composition and beautiful model. The slight green tinge that seems to originate from a light to her left is my only complaint. The hair color is great to her right, but looks a bit off below her chin.
If I hade to choose a photo to represent and ilustrate this challenge I chosen this one. Not only the photo itself is perfect, but the goal of the challenge is completely achieved.
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