Summer Radiance
by Senay

Comment by hesitant:
I hope some good portrait photographers have left you some helpful comments on this. For what it's worth I think the high lights on the side of her nose look blown, while the shadow under her right eye is unflattering. Some rim light on her hair on the right side would help her stand out from the BG. good luck

Summer Radiance
by Senay

Comment by hotpasta:
nice...lighting is good, but the light colour border seems to draw my attention...black would have been heaps better

skyline
by Senay

Comment by macrothing:


Critique Club Critique

First Impressions
The colors of the city are quite nice but the frame dominates the image too much. It is not quite 'far out' enough to show a 'skyline' to match the username for this Challenge.

Photograph Information, Technicals & Composition Review
For a long exposure of 3 seconds, I think you could have afforded a much lower ISO than 800. The quality of the image is not very clean and the night sky is showcasing this, rather than being nice and smooth, which may have been helped in post processing. I also wonder whether a deeper DOF, especially to garner some of the fore water as well.

Compositionally, with the tall buildings in the center of the image as well as on the left, throws the compositional balance out. With the scene as is, perhaps a tighter crop on the right would have helped. Apologies in advance if wrong, but it seems this may have been taken through a window as I can see what look like some subtle reflections here and there.

As already mentioned, the frame is too dominant, not only in color (which doesn't seem to pick up and complement any color within the image) but also in size, for an image of this size. The image also looks like it needs a slight nudge rotate up on the left to straighten.

Comments, Score & Placement Review
133/169 is low down the pack, but I think that the voters didn't get a strong connection with the username, that and the framing might have made them move on a little too fast. The score of 5.44 is quite good, especially for where you placed.

Just reading your two comments, one mirrors some of my comments above and the other says that they like the image. With a combined score of 7 from your commenters, they both liked it and voted it high.

Summary
Without your border and with some post processing to smooth out some ISO issues and tweak the lighting, this image may have been improved. However as I first mentioned, for your title/choice of username, the impact and 'fit' is not as strong as more skyline would have given, in my opinion.

Summer Radiance
by Senay

Comment by MaryO:
Like your composition and that you got catchlights in both eyes. Skin tone looks greenish on my monitor.

skyline
by Senay

Comment by photobytes:
Nicely lit, leveled well,

Stranger to None and a Vision to Some
by Senay

Comment by kmusser:
Only death is represented here.

Stranger to None and a Vision to Some
by Senay

Comment by in2truth:
& Best Friend & Savior to others! :-)

Stranger to None and a Vision to Some
by Senay

Comment by thelogenator:
Wonderful B$W. Love the tone.

Stranger to None and a Vision to Some
by Senay

Comment by Jason_Cross:
I like the tones in this shot, but the cross could be tweaked to be straiter in the crop. That would make it a better composition in my opinion.

Stranger to None and a Vision to Some
by Senay

Comment by Rasai:
Ilike your title +1