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Valerie
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Challenge: Color Studio Portrait II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus C-8080
Location: Austin
Date: Apr 16, 2006
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 50
Galleries: Portraiture, Studio
Date Uploaded: Apr 16, 2006

 YES I KNOW THIS IS SOFT...I submitted the wrong image : ( boo hiss ..lesson learned..don't submit a minute before the start time!

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Place: 187 out of 199
Avg (all users): 4.5821
Avg (commenters): 3.9091
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Views since voting: 863
Views during voting: 370
Votes: 268
Comments: 24
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04/23/2006 09:31:12 AM
Focus looks too soft!
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 04/21/2006 07:25:02 PM
Nice composition. Just a few things to note - 1) the crease in the background needs to go, and 2) the image has a nice soft feeling to it, but the eyes need to be much sharper. Overall nice image. Good luck!
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 04/21/2006 06:29:42 PM
It is a little bit soft and the background is too close (the crases and folds draw to much attention). Increase the distance between subject and background to create better out of focus blur.
I like the diagonal flow of the compostion and to some extent how the light falls. But this is very en profil, would like to see the other part of the face more, even if it only included the slightest hint of the 2nd eye.
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 04/21/2006 01:53:54 AM
Just a little to soft IMHO and the creases in the cloth at the back are distracting.
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 04/20/2006 07:16:39 PM
a beatutiful image of a beautiful girl - but it's out of focus. that really is the only problem here.
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 04/20/2006 02:09:20 AM
Just a little too soft for me. The eyes and lips should be more in focus.
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 04/20/2006 01:50:11 AM
this shot is out of focus
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 04/19/2006 11:53:56 AM
Nice shot, I think this one would have been a little better if it were more in focus. It seems to be just a little too blury.
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 04/19/2006 05:32:00 AM
seems a little out of focus.
the background canvas is not uniform - distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/19/2006 12:57:25 AM
Her posture is definitively not flattering. Another point - if you wanted a softer image, then you should have focused in front of her, not behind her. This way your backdrop shows all imperfections instead of being even more blurry than her face.
Good attempt though.
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 04/18/2006 02:44:00 PM
i dont know if you did it on purpose for the photo to be blurry if so you got it. personnally im not a fan of the blurry stuff.
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 04/18/2006 01:31:44 PM
Too bad this is out of focus, that and some better lighting and you would have had one heck of a good shot, I like her expression. This with a dark or even black backround and some soft lighting that would leave smooth shadows over her face would have been ace. You´ll get there.
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 04/18/2006 08:38:32 AM
This photo lacks focus on the model's face and the background should be more blurred. placing the model further from the background could help and a use of smaller aperture setting if possible.. The position of the model is ok.
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 04/17/2006 04:06:37 PM
The focus is too soft:-( But, the lighting is nice and so is the composition.
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 04/17/2006 03:47:44 PM
Very soft focus, almost to soft.
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 04/17/2006 02:10:11 PM
too soft.
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 04/17/2006 12:17:46 PM
Face is out of focus.
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 04/17/2006 11:49:28 AM
I'm sorry to say it's out of focus. I think the most important thing in a portraitphoto is that the eyes are sharp.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/17/2006 11:17:57 AM
It's out of focus, too bad, because it's a very nice pose.
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 04/17/2006 09:08:31 AM
Seems out of focus.
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 04/17/2006 08:16:32 AM
Focus is off
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 04/17/2006 07:20:48 AM
Valerie is beautiful, but this shot is quite blurry...had this been sharp around the eyes, it would do fantastic because the colours and pose are great and the composition is wonderful...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/17/2006 04:28:59 AM
The soft focus or slight blurring here doesn't fit well for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/17/2006 12:59:59 AM
I like the softness... except around the eyes, it feels like it has gone too soft (potentially, it may have been out of focus). The thing that makes it feel wrong is that her right shoulder (left side of the image) appears to be very sharp, even while her eyes are blurred. So either the camera focused on the wrong location, or the post processing softness wasn't applied across the entire image - in which case, the best place to reduce the softness is in the eyes.
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