Annie #3

[clayhaus]

I quite like the feel of this image but compositionally I'm bothered by one thing. The powers of suggestion being what they are require me to not mention it but I am wondering if others will comment on it. Please critique away....

[gahspidy]

I like the feel as well, but am bothered somewhat by the empty space in the upper right area and the post coming straight up from behind her head. i think if her head was positioned over a bit more to the right and poked into the empty area it would feel better and remove the vertical right behind her.

[clayhaus]

Yes: the post. It is the main bothersome piece. I wanted her lines to mimic the railing to her right, which she does. But I should have shifted her a foot or two to the (our) right. That would have solved the post issue and perhaps mitigated to some degree the empty space as well.

[GB1]

Pretty girl, and I do like the background, but the background's geometry does seem to compete with her a bit. I think that this could be changed w/ better lighting though. Was this a long exposure? Seems that the background is sharper than she is, esp around her eyes and nose.

[racedraper]

personally i would like to see more light on her right side of her face and make make ground a little darker. The railing is too bright, maybe use a reflector and bounse some light.
Your getting there Buddy.

By the way ,your landscape photo are amazing, simple amazing.

[armando_m]

the images you are uploading here look very soft, while the ones in flickr look perfect

for this image besides what has been mentioned , I think her left leg extended towards he camera is odd, perhaps crop right below her hands ?

[clayhaus]

Thanks for the comments and critiques. There are some good take-aways here so I appreciate it. I did soften this one as well, though not selectively. It seemed to work for me with this (and other images) though I understand that it does not appeal to all. The images I upload here are smaller than what I upload on Flickr (much less my commercial site: http://www.perfectlightstudios.com/annie) so maybe that fact is accentuating the softening.

I agree that the balusters/railing are too bright. The exposure was not long at all: hand held and I did have a reflector to her right to open up the non-light source side of her face.

good study piece: I've learned a lot