Old Blue-Eyeby
IsaacComment by Azrifel: ~~~~Critique Club Comment~~~~
Composition (content)
The composition is basically OK. It is just that the subject itself isn't very appealing. It might have been prettier to make a portrait of both eyes.
Background
There is no background.
Camera Work (Technical)
The flash was not a good decision. First of all, this picture didn't need the F8.6 aperture, you could try to open it up to F2 / F2.8 . It could of course be that you have no control over it.
It creates a nasty glare from the skin, not nice at all. Try to get more natural light or let someone hold a table lamp ore something. Don't use a flashlight/torch as that light is often to bright, you want the diffuse light from a "low" Watt bulb or the tinted glass of a bulb. What works is a flashlight diffused by a piece of transparent (the kind you can use to draw the stuff that is on the paper below it) paper. You could even put that between the subject and your flash. That too diffuses light. It would have made the skin much more pleasing, now it looks a bit sweaty.
The skin that isn't affected by the flash looks very natural and the hair has detail, which is nice.
Focus and sharpness are good.
Digital Processing (technical)
Nothing to mention.
My opinion
Interesting choice of subject, but I don't like the picture because of the sweaty look created by the flash.
