"I Only Have Eyes For You"
by naomik

Comment by rayg544:
Excellent capture! :)

Curls
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Comment by IreneM:
Fantastic shot - love the sepia tone.

Amanda
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Comment by scaramanga:
Nice idea and beautiful model but the execution lacks quality. I'll try to give some hints:
- Her skin (especially her face) suffers from artifacts. Perhaps you saved the shot in a too low qualitiy? Try to reach the 150 KB border as close as possible to guarantee the best image quality.
- The image is oversharpened. Look at her hair and you will see some kind of "stairs" if you know what I mean. The hair becomes fringy and lacks smoothness. Sharpening less (especially when it comes to portraits) looks better.
- The blueish spots on the background are distracting. You can easily remove them by brightening those areas up till they become white.
- The most crucial point: Her face is too dark. When you look at the photo, what do you see first? Her hair, because it's the brightest part! But the essence of every portrait is the face. This is what a viewer should see first. While taking the shot you should have used a light to brighten up her face. You can compensate this issue a bit by making the face brighter during postprocessing.

Ok, this was a lot. I hope it helps :)

"I Only Have Eyes For You"
by naomik

Comment by dahkota:
The expression is priceless and the DOF amplifies it. Excellent capture! 9

"I Only Have Eyes For You"
by naomik

Comment by silverfoxx:
he is so cute:)

Curls
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Comment by craigester:
This is not really a diagonal composition.

Curls
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Comment by Spizzer:
This has a lot of potential. On my monitor it is a tad over sharpened especially in the eyelashes of the right eye. Maybe because I have been looking at so many exaggerated diagonals, there is not enough in this. The bridge of the nose, which is the lightest portion of the face, is vertical. A slight tilt either way to get it diagonal might make the whole thing pop. If this was cropped out of a larger, there might be room to try it. Great expression on the model! (Still give it a 6, which is high for me.)

"I Only Have Eyes For You"
by naomik

Comment by MaryO:
That's hysterical! The perspective and DOF are fabulous :-)

Curls
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Comment by Kacwood:
Pretty good portrait. Just don't see where it meets the challenge..?

"I Only Have Eyes For You"
by naomik

Comment by jblaylockrayner:
Funny