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Love the contrast on this one. Classic view, but still works great.

Is the slight tilt to the left on purpose?

The poor girl must be freezing! :-)

Great light, good job keeping the model well lit with the bright sun in the background.

A keeper

I like the idea of the gears, but personally, I'd have gone for more symmetry, and maybe a bit more light (slight fill in the shadows in the middle of the picture).

But as said, original!

Attached an example of a more symmetric crop.

I love the painting-like pose, colour and lighting on this one. Definitely the best one of the Crystal shoot.

Also, looking at the other pictures of the shoot, white balance seems to vary widely between them. For a shoot like this, a custom WB of a gray card, or one of the preset modes (flash comes to mind) always has my preference.

It's perfectly ok on this one though!

Look, composition and model are all good (love the smile), but looks like you misfocussed a bit. Subject is slightly soft, while the tree is much sharper.

I agree with Brad here. The original is the best combination of a good model and a good background. The tighter crops might as well have been shot in a studio against a backdrop image.

And while the missing fingers are fine by me (it's a natural cut-off, the position of the hands can be easily imagined from the rest of the image), the sudden termination of the arm in the square version DOES bother me.

All in all, great portrait, don't change a thing.

Good use of a wide-angle for a portrait. Interesting perspective without blowing body parts out of proportion.

I would have used less saturation/dynamic range though. It draws a lot of attention away from the main subject imo.

I agree with the previous posters that the contrast between the overexposed background and (underexposed) dark hair is a little too big. Maybe in the future add a small reflector from the other side or from below, or tune down the lights on the background.

One thing that bothers me about the cropped version is what photoshopdisasters usually refers to as 'bobblehead': the head seems disproportionally large.

The uncropped version suffers less from this, which is why I would prefer that one. The arm doesn't bother me.

For the rest: good picture, nice expression. Light on the face could be a bit less harsh, but that's just nitpicking.

I'm not sure if this was your intention, but this image gives the impression of being an old snapshot. The combination of b/w, the slight graininess, and the lack of `modern items' in the picture give it a decidedly 70s or 80s appearance to me.

Even if it wasn't intentional, I like it.

Picture I took at a match last weekend. I'm quite satisfied with it, both

colour, focus and `the shot'. What do you think?

Any comments welcome.

Great idea, and well executed.

One question. the `spotlight' around the scarecrow, is that PP?

I feel it makes the image lose some of it's quietness, especially as the effect isn't applied to the grass in the upper-right corner. (at least not obvious enough to be noticed)

Interesting shot, nice composition with the colours matching between the town and the greenery.

I'd lose the black bars though, they take a lot of edge out of the image.

Kind of reminds me of something

Great picture. Nice perspective.

A photo I made a few years ago. As I'm currently starting out with a

new camera, I'd like to find out what I did right and what I did

wrong back then.