feel like I'm missing something here....

[mmaria]

So, what is it? I just feel I didn't edit it enough, feel like something else or more needs to be done in pp...

What else?

 

[OGsPhotography]

Maybe show the light coming through the trees from camera right more. Her face is well lit yet the trees beside are heavy in shadow.

Perhaps burn down the tree closest right. That sounded funny typing " burn down the tree..." Haha

I agree it needs something its going to be nice whatever you do.

 

[MichaelHenson]

IMHO: It has a moody "feel" but the lighting doesn't seem to match the moodiness to me. As previously stated, her face is well lit but the rest of the image is faintly lit. I would probably try raising the exposure of the entire photo and then bump up the contrast and burn some of the foreground/background to darken it back up a bit. I'm envisioning almost a path or a "wash" of light through the trees to her and then it drops quickly back to shadow toward the left side of the frame.

Again, I would just try it and see how it looks. Might not help but that's how I'd start.

 

[Gary A.]

I think there is too much contrast between the skin tones and the rest of the photo. There is even severe contrast between the dark eyes and the skin. A B&W conversion may work ... Play around with contrast/dodge/burn.

Okay, took another look, I'm on my tablet and everything looks small ... So that probably affected my first look ... Take a little off the top to make the subject a bit more prominent.

 

[jcdeboever]

It has more green tone in it than normal, compared to your others. I like it though. It has your style so I am not sure how someone can help you edit it.

 

[vintagesnaps]

What I noticed after leaving it and coming back to it is that the trees caught my attention, They seem lighter than much of the scene and seem to stand out.

I noticed that the ones to the right seem straight and to the left have more of a lean, which could be how they naturally occur in the setting. But the tree to the left creates a long vertical line that's at an angle and makes the entire picture seem crooked.

I've found doing sports there are often painted lines and posts and poles and if those are near the edge of the frame, I need to make sure they're framed straight or the whole picture looks crooked.

That and the tree behind her is so close to being directly behind her there's a little of that 'growing out of the subject's head' happening. The tree in the foreground close to the camera to the right I'm not sure about, if that works or not.

I find that my inclination looking at this picture is to want to move around a little, change the vantage point, maybe change where she's standing. Which obviously would need to happen at the time. Maybe it just takes experience to see it while you're taking pictures, I find that when I'm out taking pictures I often just am not 'seeing' 'it', whatever it is, and if I walk around some I'll all of a sudden see 'it', the picture I want, that works.

 

[Didereaux]

That closest tree on the right makes your eye bounce between it and the girl. I think if you just crop it out then things will gel. imo

 

[The_Traveler]

I think that the shapeless dark mass of her dress/coat is confusing and the consist lean of the trees calls more attention to the trees than they deserve.

 

[DanOstergren27 2]

What does the original look like? Perhaps this shot doesn't need as much editing as you think, or as much as you've already done to it. As it is now, I think you've added too much green. If you used adjustment layers (and you should be editing with adjustment layers), try reducing the opacity of each adjustment layer in order to give it a more subtle effect.

 

[mmaria]

Maybe show the light coming through the trees from camera right more. Her face is well lit yet the trees beside are heavy in shadow.

Perhaps burn down the tree closest right. That sounded funny typing " burn down the tree..." Haha

I agree it needs something its going to be nice whatever you do.

lol

and.. I doubt I could pull off the light you mentioned...

ty

IMHO: It has a moody "feel" but the lighting doesn't seem to match the moodiness to me. As previously stated, her face is well lit but the rest of the image is faintly lit. I would probably try raising the exposure of the entire photo and then bump up the contrast and burn some of the foreground/background to darken it back up a bit. I'm envisioning almost a path or a "wash" of light through the trees to her and then it drops quickly back to shadow toward the left side of the frame.

Again, I would just try it and see how it looks. Might not help but that's how I'd start.

hm.... I'm trying to picture what are you saying but it doesn't fit in what I'm thinking about... I'm trying to do something "underexposed" and with no much of contrast... I see what you mean about your face, because I was wondering about that
ty

 

[mmaria]

I think there is too much contrast between the skin tones and the rest of the photo. There is even severe contrast between the dark eyes and the skin. A B&W conversion may work ... Play around with contrast/dodge/burn.

Okay, took another look, I'm on my tablet and everything looks small ... So that probably affected my first look ... Take a little off the top to make the subject a bit more prominent.

Yeah... I agree about the contrast... but it didn't cross my mind to think about this photo in bw ... and I'll crop it a bi.

ty

It has more green tone in it than normal, compared to your others. I like it though. It has your style so I am not sure how someone can help you edit it.

... must see what is with the green tone, because I didn't wanted to be green at all...
ty

 

[mmaria]

What I noticed after leaving it and coming back to it is that the trees caught my attention, They seem lighter than much of the scene and seem to stand out.

I noticed that the ones to the right seem straight and to the left have more of a lean, which could be how they naturally occur in the setting. But the tree to the left creates a long vertical line that's at an angle and makes the entire picture seem crooked.

I've found doing sports there are often painted lines and posts and poles and if those are near the edge of the frame, I need to make sure they're framed straight or the whole picture looks crooked.

That and the tree behind her is so close to being directly behind her there's a little of that 'growing out of the subject's head' happening. The tree in the foreground close to the camera to the right I'm not sure about, if that works or not.

I find that my inclination looking at this picture is to want to move around a little, change the vantage point, maybe change where she's standing. Which obviously would need to happen at the time. Maybe it just takes experience to see it while you're taking pictures, I find that when I'm out taking pictures I often just am not 'seeing' 'it', whatever it is, and if I walk around some I'll all of a sudden see 'it', the picture I want, that works.

well... I won't reshoot this... I plan to go with another model there and with another idea but for this...either it works or not
I get what you're saying

ty

 

[mmaria]

That closest tree on the right makes your eye bounce between it and the girl. I think if you just crop it out then things will gel. imo

I was thinking exactly the same ... well... plus a bit more tweaking

ty

 

[mmaria]

I think that the shapeless dark mass of her dress/coat is confusing and the consist lean of the trees calls more attention to the trees than they deserve.

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I'm doing the edit all over again... and straightening the trees a bit

ty

 

[mmaria]

What does the original look like? Perhaps this shot doesn't need as much editing as you think, or as much as you've already done to it. As it is now, I think you've added too much green. If you used adjustment layers (and you should be editing with adjustment layers), try reducing the opacity of each adjustment layer in order to give it a more subtle effect.

I added sooc

...and that was something I was thinking about... maybe I shouldn't edit it this much. I think I lost myself in editing and that I need to start all over again with the clear intent in my mind..

and I usually don't add green, I don't know what happened with me and green here!


so... I don't need to toss it? nobody said it wasn't ok

ty