Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.
First Impression - the most important one: I initially find this image as underexposed, which in voting would tend to sway my vote low without much other consideration.
Composition: To be perfectly honest, I find the composition and choice of crop boring. Perhaps a less square crop would have brougnt more interest or moving the legs more to one side of the crop.
Subject: Subject is clear, it is easy to tell what you were trying to show.
Technical (Colour, focus, and light): This is what got ya.
Focus: On closer inspection, the image appears to be well focus, but the overall underexposure gives the initial impression that it is softly focused.
Colour: Once again, exposure hurt you on this. What woudld have been vibrant shoes, just went dull.
Light: The source of what went wrong here. I undertand completely that dark skin is hard to expose for. Quite hard indeed. In this case, you should meter from a grey card and then bracket the shot. Other qualities of the light here is that it is quite flat.
To grow its vote?: Pay more attention to metering of light. Technicals are the first and foremost aspect to work on.
Summary: You seem to have the creative mind to do well. Work on the technicals some and you'll be on your way to some truly great photos.
I like the framing and composition of this shot. IMHO it looks a little underexposed and lacks contrast in the shoes (which are the main focal point). Perhaps adjusting exposure compensation in the RAW stage or levels in p-shop may help with this? Just my opinion, nice shot nonetheless
This is the photo that could have been. More light would have really brought out those shoes, and against a white background really given the POP that makes for a great burst of color.
Oh this is great. Very sexy. I wish the light were just a tad brighter, but the shine on those satin shoes really is nice!! Good idea and it certainly follows the directive of the challenge to a t! 9
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