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01Ryan10 wrote:
Overall...I am leaning to not liking the shot.
Reasons I do like it...Overall, the lighting is great. The girl's face seems to be completely sharp, so focus is spot on.
With that said, here is why I don't like the image overall...
I feel like you're going for a "moody" look; however, her contemporary clothes and bracelet just don't fit the feeling I feel she's portraying. I did say the lighting is great, just not for this image. I'd like to see a little darker shadows to fit her expression. The one thing I do find distracting is the focal plane. Although her face is completely sharp, her hands clearly are not. I feel that if her hands are going to be placed as an extension of her face in the picture, they too should be sharp....Show more →
Ok... I'll keep that in mind. F/8 may have been a better choice. As an artist and photographer each one of us I guess has their own technique on how they want the image to look. This was simply practice for me, but I didn't think of it as practice, I actually tried making a really good image. I usually take landscape photos and Astro photos, it has been a while since I've done studio lighting, so I'm trying to get back into that. Thank you for your suggestions. Lately there have been a lot of photographers out there that like to shoot with their lenses wide open for portraits and everything else. Sometimes I like that and sometimes I don't, but I figured f/4 for the shot was deep enough. I did not find that the hands being slightly out of focus and issue for me.... but I can see how some of you guys may not like that that much. That's kind of why I like this forum, I get lots of opinions and constructive criticism.
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