I like this image a lot more than the other two, if not LOVE it.

The only thing I would find fault with is a really easily done photographers gaffe....
Your model has a tree "growing" out of her head. If you had taken a half step to the left, and changed the focal length to something higher, like 55mm, and taken several steps backwards, this would hopefully throw out the background a little more so that it wouldnt seem like a tree was growing out of each shoulder and would just be blurry coloured background.

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I also feel that this image could do with the reds being recoloured brighter, and her skin coloured a little more lively like. This would make the snow and building seem even more cold and remote-like.

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I don't see how it would look like a tree growing out of her head, and anyone looking at it, would of course just look as it as a tree in the background?

Blurring the background completely, i think would have totally done harm to this photograph because i think the scenery really adds to it. And i also wanted to allow people to see the tress in the background instead of a background which you don't know what it is. You can see the snow on the trees, which i think is beautiful. My 50mm lens is very limiting, especially when working in such tight areas, and on a 1.4 crop camera, its really as if its a 70mm lens, which is much to long for me.

Thanks once again.. and i honestly appreciate it all. I just don't agree entirely with some of things you mention, so i thought i would just voice my opinion as well.

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Its definitely worth you commenting on what anyone says and explaining your viewpoint! This not only helps the critique (me) to grow, but also helps other photographers see what you've done to get the image where it is.

The "growing out of her head" comment, refers to composition in photography. The use of lines, shapes and colours can direct a viewers attention into or out of the photograph. Most people look at the top third of the image and then follow it up, unless there is obvious reason to look elsewhere or follow it down, eg, a photograph of a waterfall will have the viewer look at the top and then follow the fall of the water to its destination, whereas a photo of a jet and its trail has the viewer look at the jet and then the trail (which normally leads upwards).

In this image, when I first looked, I was drawn to her face and then to the tree above her head, and then looked at the rest of the image, how her cuffs matched the red in her dress, necklace and hair, and then how her boots were snow-caked and that she looked mighty cold.

I guess the makeup comment could be attributed to my personal dislike of the "panda-bear" culture we're seeing at the moment with girls and their eyes so blacked out, that they could hide a black eye under the makeup easily.

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crazy colouring. Did you adjust much?

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Thanks I actually did alot of adjustments in this one. Someone mentioned that it sort of looks like a painting? I just wanted the details of the photo to really stand out.

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Thank you!

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Aint she cold lol

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