My SO at the park

[XO-Studios]

Taken last summer, in a park in Boise, ID used selective desaturation, the colors are real.
http://www.xo-studios.com/photos/13332004-L.jpg

Figured after critiquing others, it is time for me to face up to it.

XO,

[wxwax]

The XO SO? :lol3 Very nice. :nod

[pathfinder]

Taken last summer, in a park in Boise, ID used selective desaturation, the colors are real.
http://www.xo-studios.com/photos/13332004-L.jpg

Figured after critiquing others, it is time for me to face up to it.

XO,
Very nice. If it were up to me, I'd consider cropping the vertical bar on the right of the frame out. This would decenter your portrait even more to the right and remove a distracting element.
The highlights on the left side of her face ( my right as I look at it ) seem blown on this monitor at work, but they might be OK as my work monitor suffers from a limited contrast range. Minor nits, really - nice shot.

[lynnma]

cool shot... I agree with Pathfinder re the crop. Love the black and white!

[XO-Studios]

Very nice. If it were up to me, I'd consider cropping the vertical bar on the right of the frame out. This would decenter your portrait even more to the right and remove a distracting element.
The highlights on the left side of her face ( my right as I look at it ) seem blown on this monitor at work, but they might be OK as my work monitor suffers from a limited contrast range. Minor nits, really - nice shot.
The highlights are blown out, and while I was a little disappointed in that myself, I still like the rest so much I decided to keep it.

On the crop, I tried to crop the vert bar out on the right, but staying with conventional w:h ratios, I would get a crop that would be just below her chin, with the hair already spilling out on top (purposely) not seeing some part of a neckline just really messes up the picture.

The pic btw was just a casual hey I have the camera here anyway lets snap a couple of shots, I have often thought about redoing this shot.

Thanks for the advice

XO,