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Re: Critique a close up please.
Old 02-28-2005, 07:51 PM   #2 (permalink)
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she's got some bee-yoo-tee-full hair! but the strands in the face ain't cuttin' it.

in shots like these, try bouncing a little fill off a white board from under her face to take out the shadows under eyes--she doesn't have bad shadows there, and she certainly ain't sportin' tea bags, but i think it would help give her face a bit of a "glow."

a little more eye makeup would also help, IMO.

your crop/framing could probly "cheat" a bit more to the right to be in compliance with the rule of thirds. ( i'm afraid i'm going to have to cite you for a misdemeanor 'rule of thirds" violation. sorry. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] )

are you using photoshop cs? if so, make a layer and add a warming filter from the photo filters. it should really bring out the color-- not just in her face, but in that auburn mane.

watch the light spill on her chest at the bottom left. it's distracting. if that were in shadow, i thnk it would help the image a lot.

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