Artist's Canvas... or Artist's Palette?? Digital Art, Circa 2009.
by kbhatia1967

Comment by PennyStreet:
this is fun!! great idea - nice color (duh) 8

Artist's Canvas... or Artist's Palette?? Digital Art, Circa 2009.
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Comment by Connor:
the colours are amazing

Forgotten Beauty...!
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Comment by retiredPhil:
Liked the alignment of the head to the picture. Might have made it a little more off center.

Forgotten Beauty...!
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Comment by Ja-9:
very good idea... executed very well..

National Geographic!
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Comment by lawrysimm:
Came back to comment after the gripe thread... for me the border completely detracted from the image as it is really "in your face". I also felt that the lighting was harsh, and the girls eyes lacked focus and sparkle and the shot as a whole lacks some clarity (which I guess is a byproduct of the nature of the camera). Colours framing and subject matter were fine. I scored it a 5, which appears to be the most common viewpoint with 185 others also voting it a 5. Your tags have it as "snapshot" and "candid", and I think that is a fair self-assessment. A nice enough shot but it just didn't wow me. I would probably have given it a 6 if it didn't have the yellow border.

Forgotten Beauty...!
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Comment by cmundy:
Cool idea for a photo!

National Geographic!
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Comment by albc28:
I saw your gripe and as a person who scored this shot kind of low, i'm coming back to explain why i voted as such.

Many of your comments below state something in common, that it definitely has a National Geographic Border, but that doesn't speak to the shot itself. The border to me looks like it was added to give it the title and to cover for the cropping of the busy background (including people). It actually had the reverse effect on me as making it distracting. As for the photo itself. I light on the left side of her face (our right) is way too harsh. It's sunlight and looks to be taken during midday so it's understandable how the light would be that harsh, but its pretty distracting. It makes the right side of her face (our left) look too dark. Her eyes could have benefitted from some lightening up a bit (a curves layer could have helped with this). People already mentioned how grainy the photo is. Lastly i would have had some kind of pulled back some to give people a sense of location. Most NG portraits give you some sense of the location or type of living conditions. So pulling back some would have given that, although I know that you couldn't with all the people in the background.

Some people griped about the dirt on her face....i actually thought that was a plus for the photo. If she were perfectly clean and make up done up....it would be the type of NG photo that you were looking for. The dirt on her face give it the sense of actualy appearance.

I hope this helps.

Message edited by author 2009-03-18 10:04:58.

National Geographic!
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Comment by kbhatia1967:
Thanks for the comments made during the challenge. And afterwards too...!

National Geographic!
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Comment by aKiwi:
I agree with HotPasta.
Also the dirt around her right eye is detracting from the image.
The crop is very good and the stare and catchlights in the eyes are also excellent.
If it was sharper, had less grain, and had a little more contrast it could have scored much better.

I gave it a 6 by the way.

National Geographic!
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Comment by hotpasta:
I saw your gripe in the forum and thought I would come back and comment...while you have given this the NG look with the border and certainly the girl has the looks for a NG cover, it lacks the contrast, clarity and lighting reminiscent of a NG image. It looks a little grainy and the contrast is a little on the low side...good effort though