Thanks for all the comments during voting. I know it was a grainy image (and my lowest score so far!) - I didn't have a chance to run this through Photoshop before submitting.
Here is the result if I had been able to do that:
Statistics
Place: 437 out of 448 Avg (all users): 4.1377 Avg (commenters): 3.6250 Avg (participants): 4.0769 Avg (non-participants): 4.2553 Views since voting: 691 Views during voting: 216 Votes: 138 Comments: 18 Favorites: 0
I think your white balance was way off on this one. Also, the exposure may have been too short, or iso may have been too low. It left speckles all over the skin. Work on aperture and shutter to try to get clearer, more accurate images.
This photo has a lot of problems with it that come from (IMHO) a probable combination of three facters. It looks like it was indoors in a very low lighting situation. This makes your camera want to shoot at a higher ISO (causing more noise). It looks like you were probably zoomed way out (causing loss of sharpness which you want to try and fix with sharpening). It looks like a very tight crop (makes the noise in the shot even worse and makes it harder to correct colors and such because of the lower amount of data). How do you take better shots in these situations? Kinda depends on your camera. Without that info I can't give good suggestions but if you post this in the forums after the challenge is over I'm sure you can get a lot of info to help in the future.
TC
In an advanced editing challenge this one appears to be a Point and Shoot image. Massive amounts of noise and blowouts in the skin in the two people on the right.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
