佘詩曼

日期： 29/8/2010

活動： 《公主嫁到》之「齊心展愛心」

藝人： 陳豪 、 佘詩曼 、 鍾嘉欣 、 黃浩然 、

陳法拉 、 馬國明 、 關菊英 、 阮兆祥 、

李詩韻 、 謝雪心 、 韓馬利 、 李國麟 、

蔣志光 、 陳敏之 、 蕭正楠 、 高鈞賢 、

李天翔 、 李思欣 、 張穎康 、 黃長興 、

楊卓娜 、 趙靜儀 、 梁麗瑩 、 梁珈詠 、

沈可欣 、 孫慧雪 、 謝珊珊 、 何婷恩 、

王浩信 、 梅小青 。

時間： 13:00

地點： 大角咀奧海城2期地下主題中庭

Jim,

She is a gorgeous girl -- absolutely beautiful. You have focused well on her eyes. Her skin tone is excellent. Her make-up looks very good. I love her expression.

I wish she had catchlights to give a little more life to her eyes. 

In comparing the white of her teeth and the other whites in the photograph, I would whiten her teeth a little.

The lighting is quite flat. It looks like she was lit by your on-camera flash or some lights in back of you.

She is a vertical subject. There is nothing in the picture you want to include besides your subject. It probably would have been better to use a vertical format instead of horizontal.

The background is somewhat out of focus, but still too busy. There are many shapes and colors that distract from your subject. Even if you can't see their faces, people in the background will always draw attention away from your subject.

Your subject should have more room in front of her than behind. This allows her to be facing into the picture, not out of it. You want to compositionally balance the left and right sides of the photograph. The compositional "rule" for this suggests that you position the tip of the subject's nose in the vertical center of the photograph. By positioning the tip of her nose in the vertical center of the photograph you not only have her facing into the picture, but you have good left and right compositional balance. This little rule almost always works well. At least it gives you a good starting point from which to subtly adjust your composition to make it visually balanced.

With her face angled that much away from the camera, the only way to compositionally balance this photograph is to crop off much of her beautiful jewelry. If she had her face turned more towards the camera less would have needed to be cropped. Try to keep the tip of the subject's nose in the vertical center when you compose the image in the viewfinder.

Nice shot,

Mark

PDE

Thanks for the comments.

One of the reasons I love living in China is because I enjoy taking photos of beautiful Chinese ladies, they certainly take some beating. This image is a wonderful head & shoulders shot. Please be patient with me as I am trying out Photonet's rating scheme for the first time.

Aesthetics : Image looks great, composition is fine (eyes are angled which is great), interesting colors (headgear, necklass & earrings) My score 6/7

Originality: Ladies in costume are a little rare, but not so diificult to find if you know where to go. My score 4/7

Okay that was a little painful, using Photonet's guidelines.

Can I just say that the background could be blurred more, using Photoshop to improve this image.