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Exposure Date: 2010:10:25 15:17:21;
Make: Panasonic;
Model: DMC-G1;
Exposure Time: 1/100.0 seconds s;
FNumber: f/7.1;
ISOSpeedRatings: ISO 100;
ExposureProgram: Other;
ExposureBiasValue: 0
MeteringMode: Other;
Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode;
FocalLength: 45.0 mm mm;
FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 90 mm;
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows;


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Until today, I believed there were no hotties in this sad town. Now I know

better. Oh, yeah, she's a LOT more than eye candy.

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Les, I think referring to the fair sex as "hotties" and "eye candy" is an extremely immature and degrading way of communicating.  Try to remember that many of the members of Photo.net are professionals and not bar bums.

Jerry Matchett

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An eye catching and fetching young lady. As a member of the overthehillgang, I find it terribly sad to see good-looking young men and women so into self mutilation. 

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Les, I think referring to the fair sex as "hotties" and "eye candy" is an extremely immature and degrading way of communicating.  Try to remember that many of the members of Photo.net are professionals and not bar bums.

Her friend said, "She's hot, isn't she?" The 'eye candy' phrase is something I picked up from a fifty-something Jehovah's Witness! Considering the tens of thousands of non-art nudes on this site, your representation of its membership may be in error. I DID say she was more than eye candy, y'know? 

As a member of the overthehillgang, I find it terribly sad to see good-looking young men and women so into self mutilation.

I feel somewhat that way myself, especially with regard to tattoos, which are more-or-less permanent. Piercings seem to me nothing more than a cultural form of expression, like long hair in the Sixties.

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Les,

Gee, I want to comment on your use of the words Hottie and Eye Candy, too, but I am afraid I might insult someone's sensitivities. I know, it all seems so silly, but some "photographers" have way too much free time. Maybe their opinion of themselves is a bit, or a whole lot, higher than it should be. Some have opinions they need to express on all sorts of topics -- sometimes they even deal with photography. Making yourself sound foolish must be a lot of fun. OK,  now for my turn at the absurd. First, I want to thank Les for not calling this female cute, pretty, beautiful or any word that could be construed as meaning nice looking in a feminine sort of way. Someone would find fault with that, too. I hope that no one is offended by the term female -- I really don't know for sure that this is a female. Looks can be deceiving. I have made this faux pas a couple of time when I was in college. Of course, I can blame it on the lack of good lighting in the bar and my being overly tired from the number hours I had spent studying and consuming alcohol.

Someone referred to females, I hope in a cynical or at least kidding way, as the "fair sex". Of course, most politically correct, sensitive males (like most of us) would never use this patronizingly archaic superficial term. Some women even consider it a racist term -- referring only to white women (usually blonde, white women). I personally have used the term "fair sex" only in locker rooms and sometimes after one (or more) too many beers at bowling alleys, in the presence of other proletarian type males, ... and only when referring to the naughty good times I've had on the top of a Ferris wheel or in the darkness of a funhouse with a female (for lack of a better term) -- after viewing the pig judging, of course.

It's been amusing to make fun of the less fortunate, but I think it is time to make derogatory ... oops, I mean critique the photograph. I really will try to be "fair" in my critique.

The "local" girl is quite the cutie. Sorry, I couldn't resist. She is a pretty girl. God, I hope that is still OK to say. Oh, poop, I'll go through my comments the way I want to and you can change the words to make them say anything you want.

This hottie is sweet looking! The exposure is very good. I like the backlight. It separates her quite well from the background. It might be a little hot, but there is so little of it that I do not find it annoying. She has very good eye contact with the camera (viewer). It would be nice to give her eyes a little more life with catchlights. You have focused quite well on her eyes. Because of the darkness of her eye make-up, her eyes don't look as sharp as they should. I think it is because it isn't really easy to see separation of her eyelashes, do to their being quite dark. The eye make-up might be a little dark for daytime. It might be a little more appropriate for evening. The color saturation and the contrast looks very good.

The background is nicely out of focus. You may be trying to show this was shot in a downtown area and wasn't really posed -- like street photography (only she knows you are taking her photograph and she is sort of posing for it). It is on a street and it is photography; ergo, it is street photography. QED

I'm afraid the robin's egg blue rusty pole on her left and the cars behind her draw my attention away from her face. I find the background just too busy. I am a simple person with simple needs and wants -- this is how I like most photographic backgrounds -- simple. I usually want nothing to draw my attention away from the face in a portrait.

She has a lovely smile and a very nice expression. I have to say I am not a big fan of lip rings, but I am starting to like small elegant nose studs -- especially diamonds. They are starting to look quite classy to me with evening wear.

The skin looks a tad flushed on her face and chest. Perhaps she has had too much sun, but I would tone down the pink a bit. You should also soften the dark circles under her eyes. I probably would whiten the whites of her eyes a little. That would help make her eyes stand out better and give them a little more panache or pizzazz.

I find the composition really quite good if she was an object positioned within this setting. Because it is a portrait, I will have to make a suggestion for better placement of your subject within the environment. I believe the technical term for this is Environmental Cutie Positioning or ECP if you are prone to 'cool talk'. 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.

I think you would have better top and bottom compositional balance if you would back up (zoom out) a bit and include more of her on the bottom. This would position her eyes a little higher in the frame which I think would look better. When including more on the bottom it would be best to crop below where her neckline comes together. Her neckline forms a "V" that attracts the viewer. The viewer's eyes will go to those lines and follow them down and out of the photograph because there is no place to stop. If you would back up a little (zoom out) you could include where that "V" or neckline comes together (crop below where it comes together). This would give the viewer's eyes that stopping point. It would provide dark framing under her chest on the bottom of the frame to hold the viewer's eyes within the photograph. You do not want the eyes of the viewer to leave the photograph. The same holds true for her neck chain. You don't want to crop across it. Crop below a necklace whenever possible.

The word copyright, the copyright symbol and your name are not part of the photograph. It would be quite appropriate to place your name on a mat surrounding the photograph. It is questionable whether the other stuff is needed. If you want top include it, the back of the photograph would be a good location for it.

Nice shot,

Mark

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This girl is eye candy if I ever have seen it - for the "professionals" of this site who take offense to such language, I might suggest that artists call it like they see it, thats the whole freakin POINT!    As far as the lip-ring goes, I was thinking to myself what a perfect image if not for the lip-ring.  Nothing against her right to wear one, or what it may or may not suggest about her, but nothing Photoshop couldn't cure should you choose to.

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I must say I like the lip ring better...it's who she is , it's the generation, it gives the picture character, it says something about who she is.

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