On Apr 1, 2005 8:56 AM, John Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, David, Shel, and Bruce, for your comments, > > The picture was shot as a jpeg, cropped, and slightly adjusted, in > Irfanview (which is probably why Shel prefers that program to view it). > > Being a tight-fisted Scot, I have been resisting buying PS CS (I have > Elements 2), but I suppose I am just going to have to bite the bullet and > do so if I am going to get the best out of my pictures. And also shoot > RAW. > > This is how the picture came out of the camera (cropped and resized only): > > http://www.johnpforbes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/htm/_IGP0688basic.jpg > > If anybody feels like playing with it a little (and telling me what you > did), please feel free.
Well, I certainly like it (the first one, that is). She's quite beautiful, I like the pose and facial expression, the colours and exposure work for me, for some reason it fits my screen perfectly (although I can zoom in to make it too big), and I think the whole thing's very well executed. And, you focused on the front eye. A real knockout, to my eyes. cheers, frank > -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
