Angel Dewi
by lobrin

Comment by Paul:
Greetings from the Critique Club:

Let me start by saying that I am a fan of model shots - I do a few myself; I quite enjoyed the image and gave it a 6 in voting. I can remember looking at it and being able to appreciate the time and trouble you had gone to. Although the overall composition obeys geometric convention, I do think you have relegated your model somewhat, placing the stone cross central to the viewer's eye and brain. Furthermore when our eyes do come to rest on the model, she is further eclipsed by the dress (and wings) because of the huge difference in luminosity. If I crop the image with my hand, losing most of the cross and putting your image into a landscape aspect ratio, with the model large in the frame, the image lifts instantly. She is your subject here, you should treat her as such.

Skills-wise, sure perhaps there is a little bit too much smoothing or noise reduction and her hair is lost into the background, but there is promise in the image - I'd love to have a play about with the RAW to see what alternatives look like - the fact that the image interests me enough to want to do that is a good thing.

Best regards

Paul

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Comment by citymars:
Excellent travel photo (not so much contemporary art). A bit oversaturated, but effective. I love this subject!

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Comment by KarenNfld:
Beautiful

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Comment by scooter97:
One of my top picks in the challenge. Full of color and life!

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Comment by Neat:
Love the vibrancy of this photo, the colours pop.

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Comment by kichu:
what a shot!

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Comment by Shanny403:
I love the bright colors, I love the expression - actually I love everything about this picture.

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Comment by luckyluciano:
PERFECT!!

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Comment by KristinaG:
Personally, I would have cropped this tighter, cut off right under the feet so that the stool/crate isn't in the picture. I find it to be pretty distracting, and a tighter crop would still give enough context to be effective. I think you could have scored MUCH higher with the tighter crop.
I love the processing, and I LOVE the upper half of this picture. The same smug expression on both rider and cow is just too priceless. 8

Angel Dewi
by lobrin

Comment by bvy:
That Wladimir's a lucky guy. But his timing's bad.