Beauty

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• rychousmama (228)
• [2007-06-26 22:36]
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Hi Quang, interesting shot you've got here. I really like the use of partial desaturation to make that red rose really pop out and to play on the word "beauty." Very creative and effective low point of view looking up a bit at the model to really capture the height of the decorations put in her hair and the way they branch out to lead the viewer's eye around the shot. Great tonalities and contrasts and excellent dark background to make her pop out. Very sharp and detailed with excellent clarity. Great vertical and close-up framing to draw a balance between her face, off-center and in the lower half of the shot, with her neck and shoulders as well as the decorations coming up from her hair. This looks like it might be a shot taken of a model on a runway, so I am thinking you didn't have much control over lighting. However, I would have liked to see this with the light hitting stronger upon the face, from the right, instead of on the neck and left side of the cheek like above. Also, this might just be me, but I would avoid cropping the hair at the left edge so that it does not break the continuity of the shot. Really beautiful though and very unique, TFS!
-Lara