A child's treasure......
by Kita

Comment by pineapple:
Innocence. Well captured. Nice tousled hair..

A child's treasure......
by Kita

Comment by hideout:
Excellent portrait, how do you get the red is so vibrant and yet the skin stays natural? Love the hair and expression of discovery, only detail I don't like is the jewelry (seems to adult for a child's treasure), I would almost prefer the mystery of just the open box.

A child's treasure......
by Kita

Comment by sherpet:
Now, this is cute.....

I want to hold your hand
by Kita

Comment by Lucky:
nice shot, good choice of background

Totally In Distress
by Kita

Comment by yanko:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Hi Kita. Let me just say you are on a roll here! Eight favorites in your last two entries is fantastic. Ok on to the critique.

Technicals:
Overall good lighting. The subject is well lit and has no harsh highlights. I like the DOF. Everything that should be sharp is. Great job all the way around.

Subject/composition:
Good choice in subject. The image is very somber and one can easily see failure in it. The railroad locale is a very good choice especially since they are classic symbols of running away, moving on or making some kind of life altering change. Couple that with your model sitting there in distress and immediately I think of a 100 things that might have failed here. I think this entry did a better job of depicting failure than the one that won the blue ribbon. So great job in meeting/exceeding the challenge theme.

As far as the composition is concern, the main subject is off-center and to the left which works out well. There's also good space around the subject and nothing that distracts the image in the least.

Post Processing:
Everything looks good here. However, for this particular challenge I think I might have tried to tone down the colors just a bit. The blues in particular seem a bit too vibrant for such a somber image. Maybe just dull the blues a bit or a selective desaturation of just your model could heighten the somber feel of this.

One other thing about your processing. Your neatimage looks good however I would think about scaling back the effect on just the sweater. Since the sweater has a lot of small details to it the noise won't be noticable if you left it in there and that way you would avoid the smoothing effects neatimage tends to leave in certain spots. Probably the best way to do that is to use the history brush set to a point in the history before you ran neatimage and then just paint over the sweater to remove the neatimage effect in that area.

Well that's it. Really a great image all the way around. You have a super model to work with and a great teacher and mom also! I really look forward to seeing more of your photos. Keep up the good work!

Message edited by author 2006-06-06 05:03:31.

Totally In Distress
by Kita

Comment by graphicfunk:
More like desolation row. Congratulations on your top 10 finsh.

I want to hold your hand
by Kita

Comment by Dave Gordon:
Nice composition, clever background.

I want to hold your hand
by Kita

Comment by davmct:
doesnt seem to be composed properly, the hands look a little ghostly
also, could perhaps use some sharpening
and would be preferred if the background was pushed out of focus a bit more

I want to hold your hand
by Kita

Comment by philup:
cool picture, reminds me of my friendship picture. 8

I want to hold your hand
by Kita

Comment by TheStick:
Well composed, nice background. Only thing that seems "off" is the skin tone IMHO.