Trout Flies
by dsterner

Comment by KarenNfld:
Cute! Good idea for those of us in cold climates. Good colour and DOF here.

Trout Flies
by dsterner

Comment by vtruan:
great idea, but the focus appears to be a bit off to me. Nice Mickey FINN

Trout Flies
by dsterner

Comment by becky-lee:
Not insects, sorry. maybe if you'd given them legs at least i'd give you that

ME_1142.jpg
by dsterner

Comment by Louis:
Congratulations on the acrobatics sometimes necessary for a self-portrait. :) This is a nice natural portrait with a great smile, and the light is even and nice. I think it might be a tad soft, and I agree with Erin about the background. Great job.

ME_1142.jpg
by dsterner

Comment by ErinM:
I give a big pat on the back to anyone willing to have a go at doing a self portrait. I've tried it and it's hard! Your smile actually looks very natural here. What comes across is that you're a very friendly, approachable person. Next time I might try for a background that is more consistently toned, and either lighter than your hair color or backlighted so that the details aren't lost.

KatieIMGcd_0707.jpg
by dsterner

Comment by TCGuru:
Sorry I'm late :( Your focus is muuuuuch better!! :) She does have lovely eyes and the pink looks great on her.

KatieIMGcd_0707.jpg
by dsterner

Comment by TDCollins:
What a lovely niece you have Deb! She has beautiful eyes. With your background that you do have, the center crop works very nice here.

KatieIMGcd_0707.jpg
by dsterner

Comment by ErinM:
What a pretty girl! I do wish there were a bit better focus on her eyes here. Definitely try to get her to pose again for you in other shots!

KatieIMGcd_0707.jpg
by dsterner

Comment by idp:
She's pretty and the background doesn't interfere too much. I don't think you can dodge and burn (or clone or any other destructive action) on adjustment layers on cs2 - I think that's one of the new features of cs3 - but you can copy the background layer and d&b on that and add a mask if needed. If this turns out to be bad information then I apologise in advance.

KatieIMGcd_0707.jpg
by dsterner

Comment by SandyP:
You did great. I think this looks good. Of course. . .she's beautiful, so it would be hard for a picture of her to look bad, but with her dressed in pastel pink -- the already dark background doesn't look bad tome. Yeah. . .sometimes when you take too much out of the background -- it looks really fake and overdone right around the subject. I would leave the background in on this one.