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Comment by Shiva Das:
great face, soft feeling.

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Comment by w24x192:
A nicely composed, stylized capture. The muted colors are interesting. Good luck.

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Comment by Kelli:
Summer's at the beach! Love it. 10

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Comment by Jutilda:
EXCELLENT!! Onf of the best portraits in this competion. The rich colors of her dress and skin are great. Love her sitting in the white chair. Great perspective and composition. 9

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Comment by pix-are:
Wow, now this is a great picture. I'm not sure if you put her in the chair or captured this as a candid but it's a great capture. When a picture catches your eye immediately I think it's a great picture. I didn't have to seek out the brilliance of the picture, it found me. 10

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Comment by MPRPRO:
This is a great shot, not macro and great shallow DOF. NIce B&W too.

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Comment by sherpet:
Strong image, love those eyes...........

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Comment by the batman:
this reminds me of "Home Alone". right before he slaps the after shave on his face!

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Comment by melismatica:
Very striking. I'm wondering how many people are going to interpret this as creative use of shallow DOF.
I don't profess to have a lot of technical know-how but this seems more like creative use of high contrast and high key lighting. I guess to achieve this fading into whiteness effect you had to start by blurring the subject a bit? But couldn't that also be the result of really extreme highlighting? I really like the photo quite a bit. I just am not getting shallow DOF from it. The bangs look a bit blurred in the front but I feel like I'm grasping to make this meet the challenge. I'm guessing you are going to get plenty of high votes from people who don't mind shoehorning a photo to fit a challenge if they really like the shot. I'm not really sure how to vote on this.

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Comment by nlghttrain:
very uinque and lovely capture im just not seeing how this shot fits the challenge.