teresa.zafon 0 Posted April 11, 2010 Beautiful portrait. Wonderful contrast and range of tones. Link to comment
peter.blum 0 Posted April 12, 2010 Hi Brad, A wonderful, soft portrait. Gentle details, soft lines, delicate contrast.. All fitting the motive. As usual, you know your subject. Very pleasing and very well done. All the best Peter Blum Link to comment
kslonaker 0 Posted April 12, 2010 I find the lower half of her face a little too soft in comparison with the top of her head. I'd be tempted to soften up her forehead, too, but leave her eyes sharp. Nice expression! Link to comment
bradkim 8 Posted April 13, 2010 Thank you so much my friends for your kind visits and warm comments! Your views and comments/suggestions all become nourishment for my photography. Appreciated! Link to comment
jerrymat 3 Posted April 13, 2010 Brad, I love the soft light on her face, the highlights in her eyes, the showing of slight texture in her hair. I would have preferred that you retouch the wrinkles of her forehead though. It would make her look a few years younger and isn't that the purpose of such a portrait? I appreciate that you used depth of field to soften the background, but it is so filled with shapes of light and dark it does not yield a pleasant Bokeh. That can be corrected with post processing. Perhaps the strongest suggestion I could make to improve the picture is to measure the distance from her eye on camera right to the right margin and compare that to the distance from the other eye to the left margin. Years ago I memorized the principle that when in a portrait the eyes are diverted to the side, that side space needs to be bigger in the direction of the look. More recently I read someone state this as "center the nose tip in the picture space in terms of left versus right." Perhaps both of those statements are identical in outcome. If this were my picture I would just crop it more on the left, eliminating some of that extra non-productive space, simultaneously converting it to a vertical cropped rectangle. Regards, Jerry Link to comment
bradkim 8 Posted April 14, 2010 Thank you so much Jerry for your very kind comment! It makes me become a thinking photographer... Thank you Alon for your visits and supports as always! Link to comment
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