The Earringby
saiphfireComment by HBunch: *Critique Club*
You got a lot of really good comments on this.
First things I notice are lighting and skin color.
I think that while nicely done, the earring is still a little too dark. It's more of a grey, and I want to see it more of a shiny white. The person (you) seems either too dark or too bright. I will try to elaborate on that. I have seen some ads where the person is a silhouette and the jewelry is normal. This photo reminds me of those ads, except the person is too visible. If that was not the effect you were going for, then I think we need to see more of the person. Right now, we can't see enough of the person to get details, but we can see enough for it to be distracting to the earring. Hope that makes sense.
Next is the skin colors. Body has a green tone, while the face is red. Looks like effects due to the low light, but definately gives the skin an odd appearance. I played with this a bit and if you convert it to black and white and up the brightness and contrast, it eliminates some detail from the person and takes away the odd skin appearance and puts a little more focus on the jewelry.
The pose looks uncomfortable. Forced. Almost like you had planned on making the photo with the person mostly out of the photo, and then decided to keep it in for whatever reason. The black and white I mentioned with the upped contrast eliminates enough detail in the person that it helps ease the awkward pose yet still leaves enough detail that you can tell it's a woman wearing an earring.
This is just my own personal preference, things in MY mind that would have made this more appealing to ME.
~Heather~
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