Reply #2 - December 09, 2008, 04:23:39 AM
The skin color looks really nice. I love the pose and the crop, very pretty and glamour.
Critique:
On posing - I am sure you learned your lesson about the hair since you said you removed some stray ones, I would have still moved the curls away from her lips and made the hair a little more tidy. However I do like it showing. In shots with gloves like this make sure they look good too, this one appears a little twisted. It's a nit-picky thing but attention to details like that will make a world of difference in taking your images to a higher level because I think you have a lot of the technical aspects down.
On lighting - Ditto to what Mike said about the catchlights. I think the very small centered ones give a slightly maniacal appearance to your subject. However the lighting on her face looks good. If you are going to continue doing outdoor portraiture with a flash I would experiment with putting a diffuser on it and taking it off camera (with a cord if you need it, depends on the flash/camera that you have). The diffuser will give a softer light and great catchlights. Getting it off camera will give a better lighting pattern on your faces.
On editing - I might take a touch of red out of the whites of her eyes, but not too much, I love that they don't look fake. And speaking of fake... I would airbrush a little black onto her natural lashes to minimize where they meet the fake ones. I photograph A LOT of fake eyelashes and while I love them and I think they make my glamour work a lot better I am really picky about how realistic they look. These look placed a little too high, but I am going to venture a guess that you had no control over that. I might edit out the very few stray eyebrows on the underside.
Her skin looks incredible, if you did any editing work there you did a great job, it looks natural.
I just have to say that I love the colors and expression too.
I know it sounds like I picked your image apart, but that's because of the section you posted it in. I was honest with what could be improved. However I LOVE the image and am very jealous of your gorgeous model! You captured her well, it's a pretty image.

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