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Orrie
/cgl/ is made of drama and dumb, and I'm looking for photographic critique here, anyways, not cosplay tips.

So, as soon as I took this photo, I knew it was going to come out well. The Hampton Roads Convention Center has spectacular lighting, coming in soft from overhead windows. This cosplayer put up with my request to look right into the bright lights, and this is the result. The automatic metering got the exposure pretty good, keeping her bright and about everything else dark. I do like the light shining in in the background, and used a gradiated boarder to emphasise this. Any points or critiques would be welcome.
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
It's well exposed, I'll give you that. But why ISO 400?
And I would have used a higher f-stop... simply because I am a bokeh freak.
>> Anonymous
nice
>> Anonymous
I'd hit it
>> jeepers
Hello Ollie.

This is nice. Good decision to have her look into the light. Far too many convention shots are too dark with shadows everywhere ot washed out with too much flash. Overall a good shot.

Only thing I don't like are the people in the BG. Something about it says if it were just a tad darker it wouldn't look so busy back there. But as it it the focus is 98% on the girl as it should be.

and yes cgl is full of drama and dumb.
>> Anonymous
4 things I don't like about this pic
1, The Nekocon tag seems out of place
2, The mole on her neck keeps distracting me for some reason
3, The border
4, the photographers name and copyright symbol and date.

Other than that its a good pic