Just looking for feedback...

[Nathaniel_Goldstock]

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[kevgre]

Great image.. love the swirling hair, and the lines in the dress..

Only commment would be that it looks a little cool.. Could use a bit of warming up..

Like it though..

[Victoria_Anisova]

Nathaniel,

Makeup and styling are very good, but you might want to saturate the colors a little more and use lower compression. Another thing to try is to do a tighter crop perhaps?

[photoknight]

Nice image...

Victoria...lower compression? Why? That would make that photograph worse.

I like the movement of the hair and the movement in the dress. Very nice.

James

[Victoria_Anisova]

I thought lower compression creates larger higher quality jpeg?

[DWilson]

Ah semantics. I get messed up with that a lot too, especially when talking with people about depth of field. I know what I mean but when I talk to someone else they get the reverse meaning due to the words I use. I say "increased" depth of field to refer to the effect of it becoming more visible in a shot. Where everything from 3' to 5' is in focus and everything else is out of focus. But to pretty much everyone else increasing DOF means to go from F1.8 to F16 as opposed to the other way around thereby "decreasing" the amount of image that is out of focus.

Anyway, in this case you are right the way I am hearing you. Lower comression results in less compression being done to the file and therefore less damage to the image. James probably just had it in his head that setting the Compression option in Photoshop to 3 instead of 10 would be severely damaging to the image, which is true. However it is JUST a setting number, more of a quality setting. Higher number = better quality = lower compression.

Cheers!

[photoknight]

Dave, you hit it on the head. I think we were thinking two different things, but in our heads, both had it right. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]