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Challenge: Free Study IX (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Cobleskill, NY
Date: Nov 24, 2005
Aperture: f1.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Family, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Nov 29, 2005

my wife's sister, Mercy

Statistics
Place: 121 out of 519
Avg (all users): 5.9934
Avg (commenters): 7.0526
Avg (participants): 5.9352
Avg (non-participants): 6.1412
Views since voting: 1771
Views during voting: 580
Votes: 301
Comments: 23
Favorites: 4 (view)


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12/18/2005 10:20:35 PM
I'm working on catch lights so I really thought this photo was a great example. Nice composition. Great color and framing. I really like it. Good use of "triangles" in the pose.
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12/08/2005 01:35:35 PM
OMG, OMG, OMG she's looking at me. :)
Dang, she's gorgeous and has a captivating gaze. Very well done portrait!

Mercy, indeed. :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/07/2005 11:20:59 PM
A sweet portrait. A little too neat imaged for me.
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12/05/2005 04:50:00 PM
A prettymodel I would have gone in closer to get rid of annoying top left distraction
Nice overall tones and detail
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12/05/2005 02:52:00 PM
What a pretty girl and well taken photo. I do wish the top of her head hadn't been cropped off. It seems like it is the style any more to crop off some part of the head in a portrait but it seems a shame that her head isn't whole.
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12/05/2005 08:22:47 AM
You did a great job catching the viewers attention to her eyes!
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12/04/2005 09:47:12 PM
If there was a catchlight in her other eye, it would be much more powerful. still a very nice 6.
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12/04/2005 05:32:03 PM
Very nice! The two small catchlights in the right eye should be cloned out, though.
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12/03/2005 05:58:25 PM
A well done candid portrait. The colors look good. Lighing is nice. Nice job.
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12/03/2005 03:39:27 PM
Beautiful, beautiful picture. . . BUT you cut off here head!!! Too much of the arms, imho. BOL 7
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12/03/2005 09:40:07 AM
This is a nicely taken photo but I feel if you were going for a tight crop on the head you could have taken a little bit more from the arms as well. Just an opinion but I think it would have given you better balance. Good Luck. 7
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12/03/2005 02:26:23 AM
the models beauty wins in this image,apart from the fact that the technical professionalism is spot on....9
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12/02/2005 10:53:22 AM
First of all you have a lovely model. I always say it is hard to take a bad picture of a great subject. Critism: I feel you needed to get some light into her left eye. The three highlights in her right eye are a bit distracting, with none from the other. Tight crops semm to be in, but I like her hair more than her sweater.
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12/01/2005 11:38:55 PM
Lovely portrait, you worked the lighting perfect, fully complimentaing her wonderful face and feature. Possibly cropping tighter on her right side to reduce the shoulder/hair region may add to this. Good luck on this portraiture study. -7-
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12/01/2005 11:01:46 PM
Beauty
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12/01/2005 10:36:42 PM
Very nice portrait--
Wish there was a way to eliminate 3 catchlights in her eye though..
Solid entry-- 8
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12/01/2005 08:29:41 PM
beautiful model. nicely done
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12/01/2005 04:02:45 PM
I really like this photogaph. I think that the lighting is very nice, I like the chosen pose and the composition that you have created. I do have one problem with the capture. The left eye doesn't show the beauty of the catch lights like her right one does. If it were not for that and a few stray strands of hair, you had captured a very nice portrait.
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12/01/2005 01:47:11 PM
Very nice portrait, I like the overall composition and the close personal feeling it creates. There are a couple of details I would ask about:
- I'm usually ok with mulitple catchlights in the eyes, but it this case they are so distintive that I find them a little distracting.
- Just a little more fill or the left side of her face (right of frame) might have brought her left eye out of the shadows enough to add some depth to her face.
- This is very minor, but she has some hair that is going up and over her shoulder to the left of the frame. Lines are a strong element of composition and in this case I find the lines, created by the hair, drawing my attention to the bright area in the top left corner of the frame.
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12/01/2005 09:46:28 AM
Beautiful eyes
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12/01/2005 08:44:05 AM
Very nice. I like the glint in her eye and the leading line of her hair to pull your eye down. This is a realy good portrait.
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12/01/2005 06:43:57 AM
Almost perfect bit less skin tone .. ice
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12/01/2005 12:22:52 AM
Good portrait, nice subtle lighting.
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