portrait discusion for @kjbadger

@kjbadger is a new 365er who asked for some discusion on her portrait. I find it easier to work visually & so I will discuss the changes I made (image on the right) at http://365project.org/discuss/critique/19456/please-critique-this-portrait

[Nia]

the link wouldn't work but I would love to read what you did.

[Lyn Todd]

@sianipops thanks Nia. Unfortunately the thread seems to have been removed. The most obvious change was to rotate the image so that the elbow crook, eyes and left shoulder are in more of a diagonal line and the neck is not so forward of the body. I lowered the contrast and darkened the highlights a little for a softer feel, as well as some skin softening and clone the distracting leaves on the lower left. See http://holycrop.wordpress.com/category/three-families-of-crop/portrait/ for rotation and http://portrait-photographer.blogspot.com.au/2009/03/composition.html for composition info.