Oh no ! A close up !! ahhhh
by melissarts

Comment:
Such a pretty face needs softer lighting.

Self -Portrait
by chelseayankie

Comment:
I like the soft focus and soft lighting as well, which bring out your features nicely. Cropping works well here too even with the top of your head cut off. I also like the negative space to the left, which helps to define your face. Pose is well chosen. You have big beautiful eyes and the shot is very captivating. Beautiful photo of a beautiful woman!

~Me~
by HBunch

Comment:
The bottom of the picture seems a bit strange to me cause it looks like your chin extends into your shoulder without much seperation.

Through the disco ball
by lordrich

Comment:
I would have preferred to see a shot of your head in the disco ball without the camera in it, and without all the other distracting things in the room, which just mar and confuse the picture. My eyes just jump around here without any rhyme or reason and there is nothing really all that interesting to look at.

light nights and hard days
by dasser

Comment:
I like your composition and the wide contrast you've used. I feel indifferent about your pose and not sure if I like the hand covering a good part of your face. It looks like you're covering a sneeze.

Ink For Life
by byetko

Comment:
Excellent dramatic lighting and I like your use of negative space here. I just think your pose does not show off your tatoos, which seems to be the subject of your title. Well done!

BodyScape
by photogoo

Comment:
I like the duotone and soft lighitng and focus too. The grainyness that you added is very effective. And the way you've devided the frame into thirds is very good too.

PC-World
by zeranico

Comment:
I find the item in the foreground too blown out and way too blurry so that it's very distracting. I think your photo would have been more effective if you had not used such a narrow DOF.

Country Living
by Mona

Comment:
Colors are very nice and came out very saturated, which I like, but I think the photo is underexposed, on the whole. Also, I think you could have cropped out the dark top 1/4th of the picture.

Sing Out! ( http://www.singout.org/ )
by eloise

Comment:
Underexposed and focus is too soft (possibly due to exposure?). Also, I find the guitar jutting out from the left into the woman's arm and chest to be distracting.