Critique and Opinons Wanted: The Infamous Red Sunglasses

[Tsimiri]

So this was more a fluke shot the other day, seeing what my new sunglasses looked like on film. So after I looked at it, I obviously did some photoshop work on it. The question is, what do you guys think of it? I also had some red lipstick on that is almost the same color, should I bring that in to tie it to the picture?

Also trying to bring in the red from the lips was very difficult because it blended in with the skin a bit. Any tips?? Anybody who would like to revise this picture is welcome.

-Fiona

 

[2framesbelowzero]

yes try it with the lips colored. and crop 1/2inch (10mm) off-of the top of the picture.

 

[craig]

Try a reshoot tilting your head back slightly. I would like to see the light source closer to the eye. That may also light your lips a little better. Play around with the poses under the light. You are on to something.

 

[monicam]

try it with color red lips color and edit the hair side in photoshop for more finer effect..

 

[JohnMF]

you are difinately on to something. all the advice given above i would agree with.

Maybe if you add a feather of about 2 pixels this could help when doing the selective colouring of the lips

 

[Rob]

What's been said already basically - crop the top down a bit to lose some of that wasted space, try and do a colour match on the lips. Perhaps if you're gonna reshoot - wear black sleeves to hide your arms? There's a shot there though - I like the expression and the idea.

Rob

 

[Onyx]

if you are going to make the lips red make hte lenses black and white to balance it out.

 

[ssd]

i would like to see the forehead and the nose a little less bright and the eye brows in higher contrast. The intensity of the spot on the right glass detracts me.

 

[Tsimiri]

Wow, I hadn't even seen that spot from the light on the glasses. Thank you guys for your opinions and time.

-Fiona

 

[markc]

I'm not a fan of partially colored images, so I won't comment on that part, but I think a longer focal length would help a lot. Wide angles distort faces, so here you have "egg-head" and your ears are small. That makes it harder to do self-portraits, but I think it's worth the effort.