I like the blue-ish matte look, but I think it could be reduced just a little bit. I think it makes the shadows blend together a little too much to the point where some depth is lost in the hair and the sweater. Otherwise, I think this is beautiful.
As for something that may be bugging you; I noticed a small dark spot on the under side of her wrist. It caught my attention, but doesn't really bother me.
Thanks Dan! :sillysmi:
Full disclosure... you were the one I was waiting for.
It was the coloring that had me reeling for a while. I asked a friend a question, and it turned into a 3 way discussion between him and his artist friend, all with different ideas and I couldn't let it go, hahahaha.
In the end, I came home, looked at it the next day, took a piece of advice from the one friend, ditched everything else, and decided I was good with it.
Since you are usually the one with something to say about the coloring in my images, I was curious as to what you thought, since no one else mentioned anything about it. Although what you mentioned, isn't what was bothering me about it.
Between you and my friend... you always seem to mention a "lime green", and he always thinks I make things "too yellow", haha. So I was desperately trying to avoid both of those while working on processing this.
The only thing that distracts me is she still has her clothes on
Gross, dude.
She's a kid.
I work with high school seniors.
This is more of a dissection then a C&C lol
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It is, haha. But that's okay, that's kind of what I asked for.
Is it the missing pin light?
What is a pin light?
All these could be fixed in PS eRose. Do you want to spend the time to do it? Do you?
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Nope.
Bat plane?
OH, the *table*?
Yeah, like I mentioned in a previous comment, I had this cropped before I re-edited it. I just haven't gotten a chance to do it again. That's one of the last things I do when I'm editing.
It's a good portrait, and that's not my area, so I can't really nitpick on lighting, posing, etc., which all seem basically OK to me. The one thing that struck me is that it feels like it needs to be cropped quite a bit on the left. It's tight elsewhere and the drapes are just a distraction, imo.
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Honestly - what first jumped out at me is it looks like her head is too small for her face. All the other nits people have pointed out stand, but I didn't see them upon first glance. To me, it looks like her eyes are too high on her face, or the top of her head is squished... hard to describe and totally off base with what everyone else said and she's still a pretty girl no matter what
I don't... I'm not sure... I mean, I can't fix that? I can't fix her face...
I mean I *could*, but that's not what I do for senior portraits. They get skin retouching, not facial reconstruction. I save that for my models, not young, impressionable, girls with enough self-image issues.
Wow. It's amazing how many nit picks we can find in a photo... Sad almost.
Why is it sad?
I never expect to post an image that *no one* finds fault with.
Everyone has different tastes and opinions. I've learned to filter through the stuff that I actually care about vs. the stuff that I feel is just too rigidly "inside the box" or a matter of taste.
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