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I realise the crop is wrong. Her hair covers part of one eye. BUT I'd like to know what people think of this type of cropping abd a general critique of this picture.
| Brand: | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera: | Nikon D90  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 18 May 2012 - 2:53 PM |
| Focal Length: | 116mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/5.7 |
| Aperture: | f/8.0 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/125sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 200 |
| Exposure Mode: | Manual |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | No Flash |
| White Balance: | Manual |
| Title: | Friend's daughter |
| Username: | 
milligan1 |
| Uploaded: | 21 Jan 2013 - 12:28 PM |
| Tags: | Portraits / people |
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Well you have used self-critique. I don't like the crop as it is too drastic. I also believe the horizontal crop so popular these days is fine for stock shots as it permits text to be added which can be of use to purchasers of images.
I mean here you have a super portrait of a pleasing young lady and you go and crop off her chin of all things. EXIF is fine as your BG is dark you are able to stop one down. I don't m ind too much her hair falling over her eye as her head is at an angle that will cause that. Good eye contacta s well, well done.
Frank
Nothing wrong with the crop as far as I'm concerned. This is where things are subjective. I often pull in really close to faces cropping top in particular and using landscape format. I do think you are slightly over lit. The image needs to be a little darker. There are two catchlights in the eyes, a spot and a square one. I think I would clone out the square ones.
One catchlight is natural, two or more say, studio. Nice strong image over all.
Paul
For me the crop is fine John, though in the mods Ive cropped a little tighter, removing space from the left for a 10 X 8 aspect ratio.
Paul is right about exposure, - slightly over bright in a few areas, though not bad. What I do find needs some attention is the colour tone. The image has a strong yellow cast that can be addressed. Its aparent in the pearls, which should be white. If you used a gold reflector, this is normal, however, Im assuming you didnt.
Removing the square catchlight makes a difference also, and is easily done with cloning.
Ive uploaded 2 mods. First is cropped, catchlights reduced to one, exposure altered, colour balance altered, and slightly sharpened; the second has a diffuse glow applied for a softer look.
Hope this is helpful,
regards
Willie
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