Dancer

Thanks for your thoughts.

This is a really nice pose- lovely curves by the arms.

WOW! What flexibility! I love how her arms frame her face, very nice! Good modeling on the face (good shadows/highlights, makes her look 3D, pop off the page). Don't like her foot, VERY distracting. Takes my eye away from her face. Maybe have her point her foot toward the bottom right corner across her body. This would draw eye back into the middle of the photo, and follow her bottom arm up, drawing attention back to her face. Or crop out foot entirely, just arms and face would make a GREAT photo! If you want, take a look at some of my stuff and tell me what I can do better. I can ALWAYS improve. Thanks!

There is severe pixlation going on along the diagnal lines of her ams. I have refrained from rating because this would surely lower the athstetic portion. I do like the light & pose & the rips in the tights goes with the look of pused concentration on her face. The alaising(?) seems to only be present in the rate recent queue

Thanks for the feedback on the pose and lighting - I like the arms a lot but wanted to see if the foot and runner in the tights draw some comments (thanks Nate and Heather). I have some other poses I'll post later.

 

Heather, I can't see the pixilation on the posted version. Must be part of the better, faster scheme of the new rating system... This is full frame, so the original is clear and the posted version looks OK. The thumbnail I get while entering this comment shows it a bit - oh well.

 

Scott

Intense expression and nice pose. I would have liked a darker background but no matter. I don't see the pixelation either though. Do you have any versions where you have her whole body for comparison?

Absolutely superb. I cannot rate this highly enough Scott. To date, this is your finest portrait, and that says a lot considering most of your work with Kira was totally outstanding as well. I would have liked to have seen a full-length version of this, but cropped on the sides to loose the 4x6 ratio.