Guinness, The Timeless Classicby
cutlassdude70Comment by rananculus: Greetings from the Critique Club!!
Congatulations on a fine score, and fine portrait!! I've looked through your portfolio and find your success with this shot to be at all "beginners luck". You have a fine eye and some great technical skill. Your interpretation of the challenge is spot on, you have made me thirsty!! Good job.
Within the constraints of the basic editing guidlines you were prohibited from reducing the glare on the glass, correcting her bloodshot left eye, or removing the digital noise spot from the flip near the end of her hair. But now that the hooplah has faded, I would revisit those issues in postproduction.
For me, the distacting element in the photo is in the cropping department. The model is clearly more interested in something out the window, or at least in the same direction as the light source than she is in the beer. I am left feeling "what's going on out there?". Leaving some imagination to the viewer is fine. In this case I'm thinking there is probobly some hunk at the bar.
With such a strong glare from the model into the same direction as the source of the glare on the glass, wouldn't it be nice to give us additional mystery by extending the cropping to include more negative space in the direction of the light source? With such strong visual lines, glare and gaze, I might have tried to extend those dynamics by using a wider crop to enhace where all of the energy of the frame is already headed.
Nice work. You get a 7 from me!!
russ
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