What makes these two photographs so stunning?

[RyanLilly]

Over smoothing of the skin, Imo, a bit overexposed as well, but this was intentional, just not my style. They are also desaturated, the the point of almost being monochrome, again easy in photoshop, but not to my personal taste. The second one also have very shallow DOF, but it is well controled with the subject well in focus, though both are a bit soft by intention.

These are just the thing that stood out to me, as different from typical photos.

 

[ghache]

Over smoothing of the skin, Imo, a bit overexposed as well, but this was intentional, just not my style. They are also desaturated, the the point of almost being monochrome, again easy in photoshop, but not to my personal taste. The second one also have very shallow DOF, but it is well controled with the subject well in focus, though both are a bit soft by intention.

These are just the thing that stood out to me, as different from typical photos.

lol really?

 

[ghache]

Most of these images are really well done, beautifull models, and magazine quality post processing, I can't believe most of you really think they are boring and not well done. it might not be your "taste" but cmon, ive seen some **** images not even close to these gettiong some "WOW ITS AMAZING" on here.

 

[Lucky.charm]

First set boring

 

[Cinka]

What makes them stunning? Your opinion, no offense, but it's true. I think they're nice, but I wouldn't call them stunning.

As for technique....looks like heavy photoshop, lots of hand/manual blurring - notice the DOF in a lot of them don't match - for example: The cupcake image...her face is blurry, but the hand closest to her face isn't. Lots of skin smoothing (can be done with Photoshop or software) and some light desaturation, perhaps even some selective coloring. Beautiful models help.