from the Critique Club:
This is a very wistful composition and brings out the sweetness of the subject. Of course, major problems with portraits is the haunting shift of color values from face to arms, shoulders and hands. I usually begin by first shooting a white card and then desaturating a bit under. Asking subject to wet lips helps to enhance them and their color.
For the background, I would have pinched the curtain so as not to distract with the vertical fold. Better a curve to add to the ethereal feel.
The only fault I find is in the eyes. because you chose a foreshortening angle big complications arise in touching up the eyes. It is best to leave them alone. If you did not work on them with either the dodge or saturation tools, then you needed a few more takes to get them perfect. The single glitter in the center is to be avoided. best to have two catchlights on the iris. A simple tweak of the lights will have yielded that without hurting your effect.
Otherwise, congratulations on this effort. It was well thought out and you managed to end pretty high. You will only get better.
Lighting: Very good, but could have used a reflector under her chin and more of a catchlight to highlight those wonderful blue eyes even more.
Pose: Works well for the desired result, but would have been more flattering if taken from a perspective just about eye level.
Background: No complaints; it does not really add anything to the image, but does not detract from it either, and it does have good separation from the similarly colored shirt.
Nice lighting, background is OK, but I don't think the negative space above adds that much (there's maybe not enough for that) -- I think with this composition/pose you could crop to a square and have a stronger "portrait" photo.
Very day-dreamy pose. You broke the rule about nostrils though. Lighting does a decent job of giving depth to the shot, but is a touch dull as are the colors. The background is a touch distracting IMHO and could stand to be not lit so much or toned down a bit in PS.
TC
This is very well done, but looks a little contrived for your title (so I ignored your title.) Great job on the eyes, and good placement of background. Finally, I like the way the background matches the shirt.
My favorite thus far (not to worry, I'm close to the end)! Not only did you meet the challenge well, the pose and model are outstanding. I'm drawn right to those blue eyes, which do so well in conveying emotion. Great work.
I think this is a great potrait. The focus, lighting and exposure are all well done. However, there is too much space at the top of the photo. If she were better centered, the photo would look much nicer.
Lovely pose and lovely soft lighting. The whites really let the model's stunning eyes stand out beautifully...great job. A little too mujch space at the top in my opinion so only a 9.
Good focus, light, pose. I do think her eyes are stunning and would of liked her looking more at the camera. Pretty girl and a good relaxed model. Hope this does well.
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