Originally posted by JMR On many sites, people are often critical of so many things in an image and often ignore or miss the essence of what an image represents or is trying to say. You are fortunate that so many people on this site see beyond all the drawbacks of your images and are able to encourage your work. These are very good images on the whole. Nice light and wonderful, interesting expressions. I noticed the softness of the first five right away and loved the look. A kind of sharpness but soft look. Wonderful. But I really like the last two, despite the branches, and I don't know why! Perhaps it is the tilt of her head and her expressions and the soft quality of her appearance, despite the sharpness of the image. And it is something when you can use sharpness and still convey a soft, etheral quality in the subjects.
JMR
Thank you JMR, for your detail comment! I agree about the nice people here. I mean, yes I need critics but I do need appreciation also. I have some friends who enjoyed letting me giving them long opinions of their photos but when I asked them opinion about my pics they just answered with one or two word. It's still their opinion anyway but I was expecting more after what I've given to them and I didnt feel appreciated enough. But it's different here and I've learned a lot from this forum.
Originally posted by axl Pretty girlfriend, and nice shots.
Did you do PPing or is that lens that soft wide open?
Thank you. The lens is already soft (in a good way) but I accentuated the softness with some PPing, well actually just the noise reduction in lightroom and some selective blur filter.
Originally posted by daacon I think the last two are my favorites but it does indeed have some softness - very pretty friend and nice series.
Thank you! Yeah maybe I put too much noise reduction and too little sharpening. While I like this personally, I think it's important to see what others like in general. So, thanks again.