Is the lighting ALL wrong? Or is it just me?

[shine.buddy]

I can't tell if the background is too bright because her face has too much shaddow or if i am just making it up... help?

Nikon D40
f//2.8
ISO 200
13-55mm

[Sime]

I think the question with this one is "Do you like it?" ... because if you do, then "result"

Personally, I might have pushed for a bit more light in the little possum's eye's.. but I think it works well with the slightly blown background.

[sabianq]

Originally Posted by shine.buddy

I can't tell if the background is too bright because her face has too much shaddow or if i am just making it up... help?

Nikon D40
f//2.8
ISO 200
13-55mm

hi there, i hope you dont mind, i tried to retouch this in PS..
what do you think?
it is a bit hard working with compressed JPEG, you gotta finesse it otherwise the colors get all pixelated and overblown.

the white in the shoes is totally clipped. if you have the origional high resolution, you can make a better image than the one i did with the upload.

just open it up in PS
duplicate the background layer a couple of times so you have three copies in the layers panel.

name one layer light and the other one dark

the origional layer is the background.

then erase the parts of the image that are dark through to the lighter image and vise versa.

hope this helps.
cheers!

[shine.buddy]

no, i dont mind thank you both for the feedback!