Hot blonde

[sactown024]

My wife

 

[412 Burgh]

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It's a snapshot. It's uneven she is under exposed. Part of her hair is over exposed due to the sunlight that looks like it's coming in through the frames right side.

 

[cgipson1]

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It's a snapshot. It's uneven she is under exposed. Part of her hair is over exposed due to the sunlight that looks like it's coming in through the frames right side.

^This!

 

[Flyhigh]

All that said...your wife is very pretty

 

[mishele]

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It's a snapshot. It's uneven she is under exposed. Part of her hair is over exposed due to the sunlight that looks like it's coming in through the frames right side.

^This!

And the background is very distracting.

 

[cgipson1]

Do you want honest cc?


It's a snapshot. It's uneven she is under exposed. Part of her hair is over exposed due to the sunlight that looks like it's coming in through the frames right side.

^This!

And the background is very distracting.

^This too!

 

[brandonbpm]

Pretty for sure. I think it could benefit from a tighter crop. And as stated before I think its a tad underexposed and then there are the blowouts in the bottom right from the window. I took a few minutes to do a quick and dirty tweak of this to give you an idea what I had in mind. Keep in mind I am by no means a great retoucher, but here's just an idea. The original file you uploaded wasnt very big, so i don't know how much cropping headroom you have in your full-res file. I did a quick and ROUGH clone over the blown-out portions of the hair and sweater the best I could and I also increased the brightness/contrast some. It probably helps to make it look less like a snapshot, however now its just too low res lol.

 

[sactown024]

Thanks

 

[amolitor]

The good things are that she's well placed in the frame, in focus, and pretty!

This particular framing is an idiom that's been used a lot. It's a common "environmental portrait" idiom. What you do, though, is place the subject in a relevant environment, so the background is also a composition, worth looking at, and (this is the important thing) connected with the subject. If she's a painter, put her in the studio. If she's a writer, put her where she writes. If she's a clerk at the grocery store, put her there!

Then put the background in focus as well.

The background here is soft, but not blurry enough to make us ignore it. The picture on the wall is crooked. And, there's no sense that the background is connected to the woman. Maybe she lived there? But that's just a guess.