This is a lovely shot, but the thumbnail looks amazing while the larger image is only good. On focus I agree with Mike, the narrow focus blurs much of her face, and when combined with the strong highlights on her fair skin, you have lost much of the skin detail that is so essential to a good portrait. Now when someone has a few wrinkles they want to hide, that is all well and good, but why hide her beautiful skin tone?
One other reason for the lower than expected score might be the hue. With her red hair and pink lips shifting away from the reds into the blues might have brought out more color contrast and have made her features pop. My daughter has similar coloring and I blue shifted the hue a touch on this one. I think it helps fair skinned redheads.
Im sorry if this comes off as critical, I think this is a very pretty shot, I was just trying to give you why I thought it might have scored lower than you thought it ought to have, or frankly could have. Same shot with deeper focus, a bit more USM, and a blue shift would have gone top ten IMHO. |
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