I'm not a photographer by any means, I just go by what pleases my eye. I just can't seem to like this shot, I don't know, there's just something about it that makes me want to look away rather than in
I have to go with Shannon on this one. Don't get me wrong...I'm always accounting for the individual's artistic feel for a shot, but something about this seems snapshot-ish. It's a little too blurry and overdone. The crop pulls my eyes away from the gurl and into the red background. Perhaps if this was cropped differently, and she wasn't so blurry, the abstract nature of it wouldn't be so distracting.
I'm not saying it's what you've done here, but I see a lot of folks screw up on the focus on a photo, then booger it up further by emphasizing the blur and contrast while trying to make ART out of it. Occasionally it works, but most times it doesn't.
This leaves me wondering what the original shot looks like. Perhaps the original would work better unchanged.
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I'm not saying it's what you've done here, but I see a lot of folks screw up on the focus on a photo, then booger it up further by emphasizing the blur and contrast while trying to make ART out of it. Occasionally it works, but most times it doesn't.
This leaves me wondering what the original shot looks like. Perhaps the original would work better unchanged.
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