down time
by margiemu

Comment by hotpasta:
nice work...your eyes look a little uncomfortable, perhaps you needed to drop the camera down a tad so your eyes were a bit more relaxed...lovely face and hair, the blue jeans work well to break things up a bit and white was a great choice for top colour

down time
by margiemu

Comment by TrollMan:
Beautiful hair and nice vibrant colors

down time
by margiemu

Comment by RayEthier:
A very nice photo, but personally I would have cropped the right hand side of the image to and area adjacent to the left shoulder of your subject.

Good lighting and depth of field, and a very lovely and natural look from the model. Great work.

Seattle Temple
by margiemu

Comment by Rebecca:
Hi Margie from Rebecca of your CTP2 group!

This photo reminds me of nothing so much as a 1960s era photo postcard. The colors seem just slightly off in exactly that direction. The temple is a bit bland, the sky a bit too light and turquoise. The image looks rather flat, so a bit of contrast might help punch things up. It looks like a better vantage point might have been slightly to the right to get the branches out of the way, which you already know is hindering the shot. But the real killer here I think is the oversharpening. Someone else pointed out the fringing around the branches, and they're absolutely right. That halo/fringe effect is the best thing for you to look for when trying to sharpen an image. If you see it, turn it down. If the sharpening was done in-camera, look for that setting in the menu functions and turn it down a notch, then do your sharpening manually in PP.

Queen of the Laundry Pile
by margiemu

Comment by pidge:
Haha, this is a fun portrait

stuck in traffic too long
by margiemu

Comment by phoenix46:
Very nice capture! Regards, B.

Seattle Temple
by margiemu

Comment by Rooster:
From the Critique Post II

Hey!

So there are several things I really like in your shot. The focal point here has some great architecture to it. Really wonderful choice. The statues in front also add to the environment as well. Finally the back drop colour of the sky is a really nice tone. All these things that make your shot unique are things that I would have like to see with a bit more emphasis.

If you were to reshoot this scene, may I suggest an angle that crops out the trees. Perhaps a chot from the front that has all the major components of the building but not all of it. I think the height of the building makes it difficult to shoot the entire thing & still retain the uniques to it.

Some technical stuff: on my monitor the shot looks a bit over sharpened and a tad on the dark side.

I hope this helps!
Peace
Rooster

Queen of the Laundry Pile
by margiemu

Comment by cars:
too staged

Queen of the Laundry Pile
by margiemu

Comment by MacDonald:
sure meets the challenge - a woman's work is never done... :)

Queen of the Laundry Pile
by margiemu

Comment by owen:
She looks nice and relaxed. Good crop, maybe a tad on the unsaturated and low contrast side.