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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Justinr on May 11, 2008, 06:56:29 pm

Title: Chuffed.
Post by: Justinr on May 11, 2008, 06:56:29 pm
I came away with this yesterday-

Lady of the lake (http://www.justinseye.com/gpage2.html)

Justin
Title: Chuffed.
Post by: JMCP on May 12, 2008, 07:02:15 pm
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I came away with this yesterday-

Lady of the lake (http://www.justinseye.com/gpage2.html)

Justin
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Justin,

you may want to change the colour of the text used for your footer menu as the yellow is too light on top of the bright background.


Cheers John
Title: Chuffed.
Post by: Justinr on May 13, 2008, 04:42:39 am
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Justin,

you may want to change the colour of the text used for your footer menu as the yellow is too light on top of the bright background.
Cheers John
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John

I usually hide it well away at the bottom of the page so folk don't get to see it anyway, but as this is a short page you are probably right.

Thanks

Justin.
Title: Chuffed.
Post by: popnfresh on May 22, 2008, 07:38:04 pm
I have to be honest with you and say that I don't find this portrait particularly attractive. The lighting is flat. The eyes look underexposed and lack good catch lights. She's got kind of a weird smirk on her face, and it looks like she's being squeezed too tightly by that thing she's wearing.
Title: Chuffed.
Post by: Justinr on May 25, 2008, 02:02:25 pm
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I have to be honest with you and say that I don't find this portrait particularly attractive. The lighting is flat. The eyes look underexposed and lack good catch lights. She's got kind of a weird smirk on her face, and it looks like she's being squeezed too tightly by that thing she's wearing.
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Well it's good to hear that there are those for whom it doesn't work.

For myself I don't like big shiny catchlights anyway, they can too easily detract from the overall image and are a bit of a cliché. I think the faintest hint of under exposure works well here, she is a warm hearted and intelligent lady rather than a glam model, so overall I think she is captured well.

Justin.
Title: Chuffed.
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on May 25, 2008, 04:14:20 pm
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Well it's good to hear that there are those for whom it doesn't work.

For myself I don't like big shiny catchlights anyway, they can too easily detract from the overall image and are a bit of a cliché. I think the faintest hint of under exposure works well here, she is a warm hearted and intelligent lady rather than a glam model, so overall I think she is captured well.

Justin.
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Well, as long as you're happy, that's OK.

Jeremy
Title: Chuffed.
Post by: Andy M on May 25, 2008, 04:20:11 pm
It appears you're happy with it (which is good ), but I personally would boost exposure very slightly, and also reduce the green saturation - the trees take away too much attention off the lady IMO.