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07/25/2007 06:38:59 PM |
| Your wife is very pretty and has a beautiful natural smile. You did not need to blur her out lol. It's a very good candid and the lighting is very nice as well. Good luck on the free study shot! |
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07/25/2007 10:24:35 AM |
Jason, I think the gausian blur hurt this photo. Your wife has a beautifully natural expression and a very winning smile. When I first looked at it I couldn't understand why her face was in focus and the rest of her body was not.
I think gausian blur can help a subject stand out from a distracting background, and it can help smooth skin, when used very lightly, but surface blur is better for skin smoothing. But in this case the blur becomes the distracting element.
I'd love to see this excellent shot reprocessed. The lighting is nice. |
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07/25/2007 04:36:47 AM |
| You're right, this is more of a candid shot but it's very nice. The very shallow DOF is interesting. |
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07/24/2007 11:41:10 AM |
| Looks like you used a lensbaby with this. |
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07/23/2007 07:28:56 PM |
| The combination of soft focus and sharp focus seems odd. I keep kooking from her arms to her face. Might be better with a little more depth of field. |
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07/23/2007 02:22:21 PM |
| A pleasing portrait let down by heavy use of post-processing. The Gaussian blur isn't convincing - bits that should be in focus, that would have been on the same plane as the face, aren't. Go back to your original, treat it with a very gentle hand, and I am convinced you will have a portrait you and your model will wish to keep for posterity. |
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07/23/2007 10:42:31 AM |
| looks like a low aperature was used. Maybe try a tripod next time with a higher aperature. the only thing in focus is her eyes. - that may be a good effect if the picture was only of her eyes. |
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07/21/2007 11:17:40 AM |
| interesting settings/processing to make her facial details jump out... |
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07/19/2007 08:16:03 PM |
| A little too much unnatural looking blurring. If she'd have faced the camera it would have been a little more special. |
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07/19/2007 10:43:45 AM |
| The blur is very unnatural. |
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07/19/2007 05:07:54 AM |
| Wow, gotta be F1.4 or 1.8 or something, used to good effect. |
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07/18/2007 03:34:58 PM |
| Would've prefered the subject completely in focus rather than just her face. |
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07/18/2007 03:30:16 PM |
| i think this one has too much soft focus on the arms .... |
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07/18/2007 10:38:21 AM |
| I find it a bit distracting to have a strip of her face in focus, but not anything else, especially what appears to be a vertical strip. Perhaps if it were more horizontal so that her eyes were both very focused, it wouldn't be as distracting. |
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