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HighNoonerComment by Artifacts: Positives:
Generally good technicals. Creative and interesting to look at. The refections off the back wall adds considerable viewer interest to the composition.
Technicals:
Lighting, exposure and color are very good. Centered framing with a strait on perspective is fine. The backlighting with the wall shadows and reflected light is the most eye appealing part of the image.
The white ruffle on the right "shoulder" is a slight distraction. On my sharpness sensitive LCD monitor the "hair" on either side of the "face" has a small case of the jaggies, but otherwise the sharpness is top notch.
There is a slight amount of noise, probably due to shooting at ISO 800.
The Challenge:
Meets the challenge well and somewhat creatively. That, the nice shadowy background and generally good technicals is why it scored about .5 higher than the challenge average. Voters thought it was good. I scored this one 8 which, in my grading scale, essentially means I agreed with the group assessment. I consider 8 to be "B" level work - it is above average but not the top tier.
Some voters might have felt your composition was a bit contrived and faulted you for that. That is probably where the "1" came from.
Suggestions:
This image is well conceived and the technical processing is good so there is not much to suggest other than cloning out the white ruffle on the right shoulder and smoothing out the "jaggies" in the hair. Noise could have been reduced by shooting at a lower ISO number and increasing the exposure time. The image is static so a longer exposure time would not have been harmful assuming you are using a tripod.
Perhaps taking the image from a different angle from the "strait on" perspective might have added enough viewer interest to garner a higher score and given it a more dramatic voodoo doll look, especially with the very interesting background wall lighting.
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