[Ginger Pixie]

Originally Posted by NathanO

I like your picture. I like the sharpness of the eye area. Really good.

I've had to do this before where I perform a super crop. One thing that helped mine was zooming in even further than yours AND applying levels and curves in PS so bright white that detail was lost and all I ended up with were outlines of beautiful eyes nose and lips. Mine looked a little more "on purpose" as a crazy edit, rather than a tightly cropped bad shot. If you try that edit, re-post. I'd like to see how it came out.

-Nathan

Thank you Nathan. I might try this to see what happens. Your input is appreciated.

Originally Posted by Niresangwa

i like it.

the chopped chin is a bit of an issue, but i actually don't mind the curl's shadow on the right. in a picture that otherwise is so perfect as to be plain, it adds that point of interest to draw the eye.

where others may see this 'distraction' as a problem, in this case the face is so perfectly plain (physically, technically and emotionally that it benefits from a little 'distraction'. If it weren;t for the shadow it would just be another plain high key face.

if anything for me, the more i look at it, i don't like the width of the crop. it stretches her face. i would probably keep the height constant and add in a fat chunk of space to the left of the image.

Thanks. I might revisit the original and see about cropping it differently. Cheers.

Originally Posted by beatles2

With out shadows portraits can come off flat,I like shadows. It's just of matter of controlling what you want.. As for how you cropped the shot, I like what you did.
Paul

Thanks Paul

Originally Posted by sbrbnthrlls

The eyes are just so clear and intense. I would've liked to see what this shot cropped to where it was just the eyes. I think it would look great that way...but I could be wrong. Good pic anyway though!

Thank you very much. I will revisit the original, and try out everyones suggestions and see what I come up with.

Everyones comments are much appreciated. Cheers