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Originally posted by dspirit79
I'm going to try a different type of critique. I think it may help some people in the forum. Hope you don't mind Jerry.
Here it goes:
Your exposure is off. My guess is about +.75EV. You tried to save it in PS, but in actuality, your dynamic range is WAY to far apart. By the looks of it you are in a dynamic range of about 8-10 steps.
1 - The highlight is completely white where it should be, which tells me that the face would have been very dark. I can see a reflecting substance of some sort used to bounce light back on her face. It's situated on camera left and looks to be fairly even to her body. For some reason, I'm guessing it wasn't enough. You lightened the area but it's not enough as the skin is still grey in color. If you did use a reflector you did well in feathering the light so as not to cause your subject to squint. I can't see it being a flash as I don't see a glimmer in her eye that would indicate so.
2 - There is a significant contrast difference between the bottom of her pants and the blouse she's wearing. This tells me that in post processing you've already tried to create more contrast. Either by vignetting or by adjustments.
3 - If your image is slightly washed out, I'm guessing that you are getting lens glare. Judging by where the sun is coming from (using it as a kicker/highlight) light would have bounced into your lens, giving you a washed over kinda look. If it was intentional, then great. For some reason, I don't think it is. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
4 - There is a fair lack of shadow depth in her face. It looks a little flat to me. The only other way I can think of getting that would be that you exposed for the subject at +0.75EV to wash out details intentionally.
WHAT I THINK IS SUCCESSFUL OF THE PHOTO:
1- The pose is natural, she's not uptight. Good spacing of hands and good tilt of the head to promote balance in the photograph.
2 - The idea of using the sun as the highlight. I think it helps bring life to your image
WHAT I THINK CAN BE IMPROVED:
1 - Shaving off the knuckles of her left hand sucks. Yes intimate is great, but more of her had would go missing if the person were to matte and frame the image.
2 - Controlling flare and lighting ratios. The image is good overall, but I think that out of the camera, it may have needed more caressing (Is this a correct assumption?)
For Jerry: I will critique the others in private for you so I don't bog up the thread.
For the rest of the people in this forum:
Was this a useful way of critiquing for you?
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is this critique or is this fortune telling? all of the "I can see that your last life", " i can see your next life" stuff haha
just kidding. yeah that's what i wish we can have, experienced photographers sharing their insights! sounds great, now i should start taking pictures!
by the way i think a gold reflector is used in that picture? isn't Gold for sunset shots and stuff?
the exposure is fairly weird on the shots with the blue shirt, but i really like the one with the black and white outfit and her sitting in the shade..that one works very well.