Pepsi
by arnit

Comment by janfries:
good picture, great eyes! The half full bottle is good. Did you experiment with the background color? I wonder if another color would be better--but maybe not. Just curious.

Pepsi
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Comment by AndyLeeG4:
Great shot. Lighting seems a bit harsh. Perhaps if her hair was back in a ponytail that would have been less distracting.

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Comment by Balur:
Exquisit

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Comment by crisa58:
shirt, the look, the real bottle...very well done for the challenge.

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Comment by davew:
Very effective shot. The use of a model works well here. She looks like she is enjoying the product. Exposure is great. Only a few blown highlights on the bottle. Looks like a winner to me. I gave it a 10.

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Comment by hokie:
This is a great photo. I am assuming that the red stripes in ths shirt, the incredible blue eyes on the model and the simple white background were all used to accentuate the pepsi logo.

One criticism. I hate saying this becasue the model is very attractive. Great skin, great facial features and her eyes are exceptional.

But...her lips are a major distraction. I know..I know. Jerk, numbnuts, etc, etc but I was trying to place my finger on why I was holding back on giving this photo extremely high marks.

It had all the elements. But her lips need to be absolutely perfect in color and shape because, well...you know darn well why ;-)

The lip color is more raspberry than cherry/stop sign red and her lip shape is just not appealing enough to stand out on its own. They need to be fuller and stand out more. Seeing as how she is sucking on a straw (very sexy) this leads you right up to her lips and when you do that you need perfection there or it throws your concentration off.

This is the major danger of using humans that are not professional models. They not only bring their beauty to an ad..they become the ad and very few humans are good enough for that. Thats why the super models get the big bucks. I know..your budget didn't allow for Elle this time around but I am just trying to say how powerful the human image is, even in a DP Challenge contest. I did not even use my wifes image, as pretty as she is, in my little ad because I knew exactly what I needed (in eye color/shape/drama/size, etc).

Don't mean to go on and on and bore you but I see this as one of the photos that is one of the better ones and has the potential to be the best one.

BTW, if that is your sister/neighbor/friend/wife you can still tell her she is still fine enough to stop traffic and I might buy a Pepsi or three :-)

Pepsi
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Comment by lisae:
Wow, this one looked great as a thumbnail, a bit retro... but from seeing the full image this kind of shot really needs a professional makeup artist :). Her eyes are very fetching, drawing you down her nose to the bottle, and the horizontal stripes of her top are very effective, but it's the kind of shot that needs a lot of planning and work because little flaws stand out a lot.

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Comment by cbonsall:
I'm a coke drinker myself but this REALLY makes me want to drink pepsi

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Comment by itsaghostcar:
This is great. You know exactly what product you are advertising, and your eye is captured firstly by the girl's face and grin, and then drawn to the bottle by her shirt. If anything, I would have gotten rid of her finger

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Comment by joebar:
Gave this one good marks -- wondering if it would be better to crop out the hand totally or show more of it. The half finger thing is kinda weird. Like the angle of, and look on her face. What's up with the red/white thing? Shirt? Blanket? See a lot of spots on it.. Something weird going on with the lipstick too?