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Challenge: Human Portrait, Head & Shoulders (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-60D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Date: May 9, 2015
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Date Uploaded: May 12, 2015

 I am working as a stills photographer for an independent film. This was taken right before the acting started.

Statistics
Place: 37 out of 55
Avg (all users): 5.3218
Avg (commenters): 0.0000
Avg (participants): 4.9655
Avg (non-participants): 5.5000
Views since voting: 340
Views during voting: 183
Votes: 87
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0

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 07/12/2015 12:09:33 AM
Greetings from the critique club

Couple of things stand out for me with this image as to why you didn't score better.

Composition: For this specific challenge which was head & shoulders portrait, I found the framing to be too tight. I would have preferred a couple of steps backward to give the neck and shoulders more emphasis.

Exposure: You elected to go for a high key over exposed look to this one, but I don't think it works very well. I took the liberty of opening the image in PS and found it much more pleasing with the exposure dropped back by 2/3 stop.

Focus: Great job with the focus considering you shot at 1.8. It's hard to keep all the right bits in focus with such shallow Depth of Field.

Overall I thought this had potential and with a couple of small changes it could have scored better.
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05/13/2015 01:30:21 PM
The high key simply doesn't work for me here
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