Pretty Little Girl

[springnbloom]

I took this over Easter weekend. Comments or suggestions would be welcomed.
Taken with a Kodak P712, exposure 0.002 sec, f/3.6, ISO speed 64, white balance & exposure were on auto. I hope this is enough EXIF information.

[kevingeary]

If you don't get light in the eyes, you might as well photograph demon children. Nothing else about this portrait matters until that gets corrected.

hope that helps.

[windrider86]

you may want to read the guidelines so you'll know what info to include. You'll get far more responses if you do. Thanks

[springnbloom]

I tryed lightening the eyes a little. If anyone can suggest something else I can do or show me your improvements I would like to see them.

[windrider86]

A neat little trick is to use your clone tool, set the blending mode to lighten and lower the opacity to about 15%. Then use that to lighten the dark areas around her eyes

[springnbloom]

Originally Posted by windrider86

A neat little trick is to use your clone tool, set the blending mode to lighten and lower the opacity to about 15%. Then use that to lighten the dark areas around her eyes

Thanks, I'll have to give that a try.

[carlyfan]

I really like the composition and her pose and expression. She is really cute and you have captured that well. What really kills it for me is that you missed focus on her eyes. It seems that her pigtail is sharper than her eyes. Yes, it would help if there was a little more light in her eyes, but I don't think that's the end-all be-all of portraits. The out of focus thing bugs me more than the slightly dark eyes. How are you focusing? Do you let the camera decide where the focus should be?

Keep it up though! I love the feel of this image. It looks like you have a good eye for photography and just need to work out the technical stuff.

Lisa

[Peely22]

I like the old skool feel of the first one, but agree to some degree with Kevin about the light in the eyes.
The lightening you did is way wrong, and might just have delivered Kevin the Demon children he referred to