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This is potentially a nice shot, with lovely rim lighting but a bit of fill-in flash would have improved it stacks by lightening the face up a couple of stops, also worth trying to get the horizon level and maybe it would have worked better vertical (ie full-length...) or going in tighter to the face and trying to get a catch-light in the eyes (bit of flash again).
your cropping instinct is good. both are good. the face is a little too much in the shade. the hair is nice, but there's too much happening in front of her, with her hand, to make an effective silhouette.
in adobe, you could bring up the midtone levels and then increase the contrast some. in this version i would crop out the post in the corner, and as a personal preference i made it b/w, just because i'm really too fussy about colour and i find her face a bit too flushed, but you'd be doing this to the original file, not the 50k one, so i really don't know what the colour looks like.
i'm not bothered by the crooked horizon. nice candid.
in adobe, you could bring up the midtone levels and then increase the contrast some. in this version i would crop out the post in the corner, and as a personal preference i made it b/w, just because i'm really too fussy about colour and i find her face a bit too flushed, but you'd be doing this to the original file, not the 50k one, so i really don't know what the colour looks like.
i'm not bothered by the crooked horizon. nice candid.
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I had added some comments after seabloke's comments but they've gone
I've had a fiddle and I htink it's getting better. Straighting the horizon does improve it.
Not 100% sure how to use the fill-in flash but it does brigthen up her facial expression.
Will try B&W and see what comes.
Thanks all.
PS. The post is actually a cricketer on the cricket pitch
PPS. Have just done a remove colour and the image changes completey (slightly for the better! to my surprise I have to say). Never done B&W before. Is that the best way to convert to B&W ?
I had added some comments after seabloke's comments but they've gone
I've had a fiddle and I htink it's getting better. Straighting the horizon does improve it.
Not 100% sure how to use the fill-in flash but it does brigthen up her facial expression.
Will try B&W and see what comes.
Thanks all.
PS. The post is actually a cricketer on the cricket pitch
PPS. Have just done a remove colour and the image changes completey (slightly for the better! to my surprise I have to say). Never done B&W before. Is that the best way to convert to B&W ?
glad it worked for you. what is it you did to brighten up her facial expression? yes, b/w is a whole other adventure! it is best to remove the colour, but sometimes greyscaling comes in handy.
