Tribal Colors
by yanko

Comment by soup:
very nice portrait ! congrats. pretty animal no doubt.

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Comment by margiemu:
A beautiful girl always makes for a nice picture! The skin tones came out really nicely in this. The desat makes her 'pop' from the background nicely. I would have liked to see the drummers face maybe (stretching for ways to improve this Ü). Overall this is a great shot. Sounds like you had a really fun weekend!

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by yanko

Comment by Rebecca:
The girl is gorgeous, with nice color and clarity. I especially like the definition around her shoulder. I scored this at a 7 in voting.

I think this photo probably suffered in several areas. First, from the dead space on the right. Second, she is obscuring the drummer behind her too much - seeing him in the background, even blurred, would have been cleaner and more interesting. There is also the assumption that a photojournalist wouldn't normally selectively desaturate nearly the entire photo (in addition to whatever other process was used to almost plasticize them), though I'm guessing this was done to visually separate the girl from the drummer. Finally, the shadow cast by her arm is a little distracting, though this would be a difficult variable to control in this particular setting.

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by yanko

Comment by Gunnsi:
Comment from a member of your own commenting club :-)
The model is gorgious and you captured her very well.
What is good in the picture?:
1. Lovely colours, you must have edited in that way the other persons are in another colour space or something like that. Enough for my speculations on that but it fits the picture well.
2. Lighting on main subject mostly good.
3. Good focus and contrasts.
What IMO could be better?:
1. The cropping, crop about 6-10mm from the right side.
2. Frame is a bit big and makes again the black space in the right a bit to big.
3. Light on nose on main subject a bit harsh.
Other than that great and a well deserved Top 20 finish.
Congratulations! :-)

Message edited by author 2006-05-10 20:26:04.

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Comment by bvoi:
Great Job. Very dynamic.

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Comment by hotpasta:
Congratulations on the finish, but you were robbed! It's a wonderful shot

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Comment by SJCarter:
One of my favorites from the challenge. Absolutely beautiful shot - lovely image. Your editing choices work exceptionally well.

Message edited by author 2006-05-08 01:40:27.

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Comment by Rikki:
This is a great shot Richard. I can see where you had the desat done as it shows as a white line. Anyway, lovely girl too and the desat works all too well ;)

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Comment by Marc923:
This is a nice shot. I like the desat. Good job.

Morning Glory
by yanko

Comment by DigiFotoBuddy:
Greetings from your own critique club.

First Impression
WOW.
Composition:
Very good composition. I would have like little tighter crop on this.
Subject:
I really like the subject. Nice take on the challenge.
Technical (Colour and light):
The color and lighting is perfect. PP is good except the could part. It looks like too much NI, flat. Almost loos like part of the window and not the BG.
Improvement:
Tighter crop, different PP for the cloud part.
Summary:
Nice picture over all. I did not vote in this challenge, but would have scores this 8.

Congrates on your Personal Best.