High school performing arts student...post production, hugging a friend..not a set-up..in a room full of kids, all dealing with moving on from some deeply personal work..she is a great kid.
...handheld under poor lighting conditions..so it is not super sharp, and i know that will affect people's reactions..it doesn't bug me so I submitted it.
Cropped, levels, grayscale, duotone (black + deep blue), rgb, curves, levels, desat a bit, curves again, smart sharpen, added border, save for web bicubic sharpen.
ugghhh..dirty sensor..no cloning...
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Here's what I would probably play with to try to fix the picture: Grunge filter, dodging the teardrop, uhh not much else.
In the end, I'd probably hit 'revert' and go with what you have here... if I had the good sense in the moment...
It's a very stark, very gritty shot that turned out really great IMHO.
The focus doesn't seem to be at all bad, landing right about where that teardrop is.. The defocused areas appear pretty well balanced. The crop is very strong and edgy... The shot is imperfect in all the right ways... Another victim of narrow minded voters IMHO.
The lack of comments on this one surprises me. Glad I get the opportunity to add my words here.
I looked at the photo, then read your comments. Without seeing the comments, it's hard to tell that we are looking at a girl in the embrace of another person. Not knowing this, makes the photo seem odd. It makes one question...why is the right (our left) side of her face chopped like that. Why is her shoulder up so high by her face? Those questions are answer by the comments. Thank you. However, for the photo to speak on it's own, I think maybe if we were to see a bit more of the scene, it would make a bit mroe sense to us. Back it up a bit and show a bit of the other person. I know I would personally like to see the whole mouth. There is much emotion there, and it's muted by the fact that it just dissapears off the edge of the photo.
You already know focus is softish. Bad lighting, handheld, once in a lifetime shot, you know what happened, and you know what could have made it better. No need to badger you about it.
The background works very well. Nothing distracting there. Blurred very nciely to keep the focus on the main subject.
I like the coloring of the photo as well. Nice tonal range and I think the choice you made enhances the feeling of sadness in the photo. Very good photo and editing for the challenge.
Overall, very emotional shot, good for the challenge, but I want to see just a bit more.
~Heather~
very genuine-looking expression! however, i would have liked to see the rest of her face, mainly her mouth because it can complement her expression you're trying to capture. also, the left side of her face seems a little blurry comapred to her right side.
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