Reply To: Critique please? I don't want to be another fauxtog teen with a dslr

August 7, 2013 at 4:21 pm #11694

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The biggest thing I’ve noticed is that you love your shallow depth of field a bit too much…

Yes a lot of the times it looks amazing, but sometimes you have it with photos that shouldn’t have it and you actually put people out of focus.

Another thing to watch for is over exposing skintones… https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/q71/s720x720/1000933_555139211187924_585162487_n.jpg
(she might have pale skin to begin with so over exposing isn’t really helping her :P)

Here’s a quick example I did…
This is your original:

And I did a bit of curves lowering the brightness and adding a bit of colour back into her skin:

Other than that, you’re on the right track!