Chey.C

[Evertking]

6D
85 mm
32 inch octa

[Shadowman]

Nice effort, a bit tight on the crop considering the expressive pose.

[mugge]

I like it a lot.
Cheers Ole

[DanK]

Nicely lit, but in this one again you have the odd orange color cast that some of us have commented on in response to other images of yours. Not knowing Cheyenne, I can't know what's correct, but as an approximation, I took a white balance reading off the whites of her right eye. That moves -22 (toward blue) on the blue-yellow axis and -18 (toward green) on the green-magenta axis in ACR. This is the result, which looks more natural to me on a color-calibrated monitor:



I'm still puzzled by where this arises. Normally, an incorrect white balance will move the color on the blue-yellow axis but not much if at all on the green-magenta axis. How are you processing these?

A simple solution to this is to get something like a whiBal card and include it in one test shot with the same lighting. Then copy that white balance to the rest of the shots in the session. It may not be perfect, but it will give you a reasonably neutral starting point.

[Manfred M]

+1 to Dan's comments. You continue to have a heavy colour cast in your images. If you are looking to add a colour grade to these images, that would be one thing, but often grades are made to a neutral image and the grade is applied to the shadow and highlights area, with some regard to the colour wheel (complementary colours, for instance).

I like the pose and expression, but cutting off the camera right hand at the edge of the frame pulls the viewer's eyes out of the frame at that point.

[lovelife65]

Dan's edits help. To me, her neck and upper chest area look soft, which is distracting (to me).

[rpcrowe]

Normally, the very first portion of any portrait that my eyes hone in on are the subjects eye. I do look at Chey's eyes first but then for some strange reason my eye is drawn to the partial OOF tattoo...