Proud Grandpa
by chesire

Comment by yanko:
The background isn't really helping here. You should try zooming out and showing more of his enviroment which may help say something about him or shoot him with a more uniform background that doesn't compete for attention. Just my opinion though.

Surprised!
by chesire

Comment by chesire:
Well at least it wasn't the worst. I understand why some saw blue in the whites of the eyes, though printed they come out white. I've redone this picture a number of times in my portfolio, I think the last one is probably the best, though I believe it would have been against the rules.

The one thing I do not understand is how I can get comments of nice focus on eyes, and you didn't focus on the eyes.

I would appreciate comments on this as well as the other renditions of it.

Surprised!
by chesire

Comment by darnok:
You should have kept the blue out of the cornea, looks unnatural.

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by chesire

Comment by KaDi:
Focus needs to be on the eyes. Really.

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by chesire

Comment by Blackbox:
That's gotta be a heck of an edit! Nice capture.

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by chesire

Comment by h2:
nothing in focus, color processing makes it even worse (blue eyeballs?)

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by chesire

Comment by tlenat:
I think much editing added some artifacts on the background...
I think I would have rated unedited 7-8. 6.

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by chesire

Comment by kryptonian:
poor contrast. thought you left her eye colored intentionally - to emphasize it...you can emphasize that with better contrast.

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by chesire

Comment by atupdate:
Back to comment: You did a nice job of getting a sharp focus on the girl's eyes but the colors in this image look weird. I'm not sure if you tried selective desaturation or had to crop this image a lot but the background has a weird cast and the girl's face (except for the eyes) look washed out. Part of this may be related to your file size being only 100 kb. The challenge rules allow for images up to 150 kb. The extra 50 kb might have helped the background in this image. I also betting that a little work in post processing with levels or curves could have brought about a bit more life in the face.

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by chesire

Comment by bood:
hehehe
terrible picture!
I love it
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