Constructive Critic
Hi!!
What do you think?
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8 Comments
Clothing with black and white lines tends to create visual distractions in photos. You will see a lot of visual illusions based off of black & white lines. It's a pleasant shot, just wish she was wearing something single toned.
Thank you, I'll remember that
I will add to this. I can imagine she has an amazing pair of eyes, I think it would benefit having her looking at the camera. Game changer I would say. Lovely photo. I can only guess, but I see you may have dropped the Saturation on the Greens?
Also what Francisco said, the top is a bit of an eye sore, but, to be fair, it is a great photo, and we don't always have control on what the person wears. It's just that extra thing we have to think about.
Thank you so much for your comment Griffith.
Actually yes, she has beautiful eyes! I'll post a photo from this same session were she is looking into the camera. eheheh :)
And your are right, I desaturated the greens and added a bit of blue tone to them, to create contrast with the warmer tones of her skin. But I'm still experimenting with these.
In relation to clothing and styling. That is a problem that I had not thought a lot about and I definitely need to start to take more into account.
That is much better. I too, need to figure out clothing on clients, I'm terrible at it.
Are you familiar with Adobe Photoshop at all?
Thank you.
I'm but I use camera raw (it's a photoshop plugin) to edit colors and contrasts with the raw file :)
Me too. I made a preset to make the eyes pop, and the best thing about it, it looks good and not fake. Something I can always recommend is bring the eyes out more. But this image is great. :)
I agree, I always try to make the eyes pop more but I'm afraid to exaggerate.
thank you :)