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10/16/2006 05:01:00 AM |
Greetings from the Critique Club!!
Congatulations on a fine score, and fine portrait!! I've looked through your portfolio and find your success with this shot to be at all "beginners luck". You have a fine eye and some great technical skill. Your interpretation of the challenge is spot on, you have made me thirsty!! Good job.
Within the constraints of the basic editing guidlines you were prohibited from reducing the glare on the glass, correcting her bloodshot left eye, or removing the digital noise spot from the flip near the end of her hair. But now that the hooplah has faded, I would revisit those issues in postproduction.
For me, the distacting element in the photo is in the cropping department. The model is clearly more interested in something out the window, or at least in the same direction as the light source than she is in the beer. I am left feeling "what's going on out there?". Leaving some imagination to the viewer is fine. In this case I'm thinking there is probobly some hunk at the bar.
With such a strong glare from the model into the same direction as the source of the glare on the glass, wouldn't it be nice to give us additional mystery by extending the cropping to include more negative space in the direction of the light source? With such strong visual lines, glare and gaze, I might have tried to extend those dynamics by using a wider crop to enhace where all of the energy of the frame is already headed.
Nice work. You get a 7 from me!!
russ
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10/11/2006 04:58:16 PM |
| I love Guinness. Nice lighting and capture. Congratulations on your top 20 finish. |
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10/11/2006 02:12:28 PM |
| Very nice I like the light on the subject. |
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10/11/2006 11:54:42 AM |
| I think this was really well done, congrats on the top 20! Great matching tones, and managing to get the hair lit so well must've been a challenge in natural light! Cheers! (also a fan of Guiness) |
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10/11/2006 11:02:19 AM |
| Lovely picture. Congrats on your top 20 finish! |
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10/11/2006 06:40:06 AM |
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10/10/2006 08:03:54 AM |
| Knockout pairing, perfect color pallette. I can hear it now: "You have lovely hair and skin. It reminds me of Guinness." Fine touch with lighting. Every choice on target. Why go on? Perfect. Congratulations. |
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10/09/2006 11:50:55 PM |
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10/09/2006 11:46:12 PM |
| Nothing like a good ol' Guiness. Would love to see this one in Black and White... or maybe I've just been watching too many Guiness commercials! |
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10/09/2006 01:09:38 AM |
| mmmm, I like the "black theme" here :) |
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10/06/2006 02:01:07 PM |
| Ooooh, nice. The dark colors are great together. |
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10/05/2006 03:55:00 PM |
| ...And World Record Beauty! |
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10/05/2006 03:13:30 PM |
| 8: Nice and simple shot. Interesting expression on the girl. Only downside is the reflection in the glass |
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10/05/2006 03:13:05 PM |
| good technical picture but still there is something that is missing. |
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10/05/2006 08:25:42 AM |
| i like the expression on the model.nice lighting too |
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10/05/2006 02:31:45 AM |
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10/04/2006 04:02:15 PM |
| Cheers for using Guiness! |
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10/04/2006 12:54:54 PM |
two beauties. a direct look into the camera, esp a "come hither" look with a knowing smile would make this perfect. so perfect that it should be slogan for Guinness
best of luck |
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10/04/2006 05:56:44 AM |
| Very nice. The shot is clean, I know what your selling and she is a doll. Winner. |
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10/04/2006 05:53:09 AM |
| Great lighting and attention to presentation of product. Logo on glass is in a difficult place to be 100% effective but the negative space provide an area for text. Very nice job. |
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10/04/2006 04:15:00 AM |
Nice shot, put together in a very classy way, certainly in keeping with the more cultured market of Guiness rather than the halftime/beach party aspect that most beers go for in their ads.
The spaghetti strap suggests that timeless "little black dress" which suggests to me that this is a totally gorgeous woman aesthetically pleasing to the eye as well as having the discriminating palate for the Guiness.
Though by and large I find using beautiful women to sell things is chauvinistic, this is done so tastefully I can forgive it.
The lighting, choice of dress color, her hair, her eyes, the body of the Guinness all work beautifully with her skin tone to really make a terrific ad.
The only thing I could find that I could not totally sign off on is the weird reflection that almost looks like an "N" above and to the left of the "G" in Guinness.
Other than that, it's nigh onto a perfect shot in my book for photo quality and composition.
Challenge met! |
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10/04/2006 01:11:28 AM |
| perfection...love this..lighting is superb...the reflections on the glass can't be helped but they are a tad distracting |
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10/03/2006 11:28:03 PM |
| Nice color mix ... great shot |
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