i don't know anything about portraiture, so i'm using your image to try to figure out what i think i would or wouldn't do in this situation, as well as what i notice and get out of your image.
my initial reaction is that i am grabbed by your eye, but as it is looking off-frame, it also leads my view off. as i come back to the image, i find great work around your eye, cheek, nose, and mouth, but as i move from there, something starts to feel unbalanced. the lighting on the hand again leads my eye out of the frame. then i notice how the heavy border has a severe contrast with the other darker areas of the image. moving back into the image, the lighting in the background, up behind the hand doesn't seem normal. all in all, i feel if this were lit and cropped just a bit differently and if your hand were posed in a less distracting manner, you would have a much stronger image. but then again, what the hell do i know? this might be exactly what you wanted it to be. good luck! |
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