Jackylin

Comments welcome god and bad

Christopher,

Jackylin is a very pretty girl with a beautiful smile. Her skin tone is nice (perhaps just a little too red on her chest and left cheek). The background behind her is nicely out of focus and she is well separated from it. The backlight helps to separate her from the background and adds a nice highlight to her hair.

Her pose is very nice and natural looking. You could darken her hands a little. They are as light as her face and draw the viewer's attention away from her face. Avoid having the back of the hand towards the camera. The edge (side) of the hand towards the camera is thinning, feminine and graceful. The little finger towards the camera with the fingers cascaded rather than side by side is preferred.

The large area of wood to Jackylin's right does nothing to enhance the portrait. I would eliminate it. This portrait works better in a vertical format, anyway. 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. By cropping it vertically you can also remove your name that appears on both sides of Jackylin. Your name is not part of the photograph. It would be quite appropriate to place it once on a mat surrounding the photograph. The shadowed area outside your image is nice, but I wouldn't have the red border around it. A black line would be OK, but red draws the viewer's attention away from Jackylin.

She could use a little more light in her eyes. Catchlights would help to give her eyes more life. Her make-up looks pretty good, but I would lighten the dark circles under her eyes.

Nice shot,

Mark

Chrisstopher,

Before you pay much attention to Mark's comments I suggest that you look at his portfolio.

I disagree with him on most of his comments.  I think the contrast of the boards with the warm woodsy background of the trees sets up a wonderful and meaningful contrast.  The thin line of red to the frame helps emphasize the contrast. This girl is not in the studio nor just in front of trees; she is in a specific location and that location makes this image.  About the only comment he made I agree with is that you could do something to warm up her hands.  Many thin ladies have problems with getting chilled and the blood withdraws from their hands to stay in the central part of the body.  This causes a paling of the skin of the hands.

Regards,

Jerry

Nice relaxed expression. Great backdrop of fall foliage. The focus on the wood structure is sharp with its textural details. I cant explain why the  girls face and hair are soft. There are two objects of prominence in this picture both sharing almost equal amount of real estate. Some reduction of the wood on left will give the prominence to the girl. I have given you my feed back as I think and I am not a professional. Regards, ifti.

I agree with Jerry. This is very well composed as is. The hands could use some warmth but they are not overly distracting. The full file may be a bit sharper which would help the face and hair in my opinion but this is very well done. Please do not desaturate this photo unless you want her to look like she died and they propped her up for one last pic.

I like a lot original portrait! Great work! With respect, Valentyn

Thanks a bunch everyone for your time and opinions I really do appreciate them.

This photo is actually 2 photos merged in PS I really wanted the colors in the background to be blurry and I knew I was not going to get the cider wheel and her sharp and have a blurry backgound all at the same time so I to a shot of her and the wheel and using masks and time I got what I was looking for.

Chris

hey Christopher, well done on this shot. It well thought out and executed. If i was to make one comment for possible improvement it would be that the image have less cropping to help establish your subjects placement with her surroundings. Given you've chosen to present some of the wooden structure, I would have liked to have seen more of it. The colour dynamics and contrasts are brilliant, so i think that a wider angle may have helped accentuate them.. Overall very nicely done

Chris,

This is an elegant and gorgeous image as presented. Love everything about this from you composition, to the OOF fall background through the texture and tone of the barn wood. Brilliant image and one to be proud of!

They are two different photos. One the one with you. with an elegant frame. and whoever says Mark. simple very classic. Saludos