Bubbles? My Bubbles!by
SchuffComment by Chiqui: Greetings from the Critique Club.
This is a very cute portrait, your model is very cute. The bubbles are a nice effect and I think the placing of the on his nose is perfect.
There are few things tha I don't like in this picture. The subject is looking away from the camera and that's fine, but because of the direction he's looking in, I would have placed him on the othe side of the frame and had the negative space in the directon he was looking at.
The hair and he background sort of blend together, there is no real definition between them, perhaps another light or a reflector would have fixed that problem. The loss of detail in the shadows is really shame because this is a nice portrait.
The bubbles around his hair are not very defined either and all we see is the bright spots and this a little distracting, I would have cloned them out. The whites in his eyes are bit dark and I think dodging them a little would greatly improve the overall look.
Another thing, I don't know if you used Neat Image or not cause you don't specify, but in my opnion the whatever noise reduction software you used was set too strong, he almost looks plastic.
This is just my opinion and you did very well in the challenge so keep it up.
If you have any questions or comments about this critique, please feel free to PM me.
June
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