Playing with some old photos tonight. This girl did our makeup at my sister's wedding in Denver last summer. Truly an artist she was. She asked each of us how we normally did our makeup and what we were comfortable wearing, and she glammed us up so we were gorgeous, yet still true to ourselves. I didn't even know that was possible!!!!
(For the record, I wear eyeliner and blush. That's it. Dh says it still works. I question that each winter after the summer tan fades. I suppose that will change at some point in the future, but for now, it takes 30 seconds to do, and I love that!)
@shesnapped I think it is very well done Ashley. Fav.
Onr thing I might look to do, and here it's quite minor, look around the edges of the frame, especially in the blur, for distractions, light distractions this time. i see two that pull the eye away from the face. On the bottom right the triangle of dark, and on the upper right the circle of light. Perhaps they add some "rhythm," but I'd see what the frame looks like with these smoothed away. It's something I've learned to look at in my own shots, especially in post processing if I have cropped the shot, to search along the frame edge.
@thresheg Certainly don't overdo and obsess, light gradients and contrasts do add depth, but it's the immediate ones right on the frame edge, those that are "clipped" especially, that are worth looking at.
@frankhymus Ah yes. I see them now. Both are from a framed picture that was hanging on the wall. Attractive wall hanging in that room, but it is in almost every shot I took that day. And it's one of the reasons I haven't processed many of the photos. I haven't had a feasible way of getting rid of it!!!
@frankhymus Oh that's right. You've told me that before. Maybe that's why my eyes went to it last night. If I remember properly, it was kind of U shaped, fairly evenly spread throughout.
Onr thing I might look to do, and here it's quite minor, look around the edges of the frame, especially in the blur, for distractions, light distractions this time. i see two that pull the eye away from the face. On the bottom right the triangle of dark, and on the upper right the circle of light. Perhaps they add some "rhythm," but I'd see what the frame looks like with these smoothed away. It's something I've learned to look at in my own shots, especially in post processing if I have cropped the shot, to search along the frame edge.