I think you're much better at this than you realize

You have been added to the Best of Lemmy: https://sh.itjust.works/post/67589939

I think you're being a bit self-critical. A little cropping makes it feel more balanced

It does have a Renaissance quality to it.

Haven't seen that haircut for awhile. Takes me back! Also, gotta love her hair-color with the all-black body suit. Killer look.

So what kind of music was this? (I need to get my Ableton fired back up one of these days)

It looks like some kind of sci-fi cover art or something. Like a drawing or a painting, not a photograph. Surreal.

Not good enough for your portfolio? Man!

I am just an amateur on my phone, but after seeing the edits I thought I also give it a try. I think making shadows a bit darker and getting rid of the greyness helps the atmosphere a lot.

Mate! At first I thought this was a painting. I love what the fog has done here!

I wonder if people came up to Seurat and tried out correcting him on the green on the lakeshore maybe needing to be a tad more vibrant, or it would have been better if he got the lady in the foreground with the huge bum a little more centered on the canvas.

I imagine if they did, he would have been well within his rights to whack them with his palette.

She looks like Joanna Dark in this photo.

Woah cool! It's good to see what Seven of Nine is up to now days.

Natalie Portland

I've looked at the comments where people are cropping and adjusting this to "fix" it and I think it's better as the original, by far. The way the fog washes it out is a feature, not a bug. The cropping with the focus in the dead centre works - moving the figure to the right third might be a more traditional thing to do but this is good the way it is. The cropping also allows the red patch in the top-right, and the contrasting blue in the bottom-left to be part of the story. It's good the way it is.

Amazing shot, it honestly looks like a religious painting. The fog lends etheriality like a pre dawn mist. Her devoted focus and general posture over the white clothed table is deeply reminiscent to me of the consecration of eucharist. And all this is made the better by it being a woman performing at a nightclub, a firm contrast to the catholic mass that it resembles.

Yikes the edits in the thread aren't doing it any favours... But the last one was going the right direction indeed, the fog isn't a bad thing but it just lifted all the shadows so much that you lose some of the atmosphere, so just bring your exposure down until she looks how you want and let the shadows drop into darkness with just a bit of detail still coming through. Do NOT also increase contrast a ton like the examples in this thread, keep your ratios similar as they are now just darker. Personally I would also make the shadows a bit cooler in tone.

That seems like a pretty unhealthy work environment…

composition is great but yeah that fog is a killer for the clarity.

I think you could include it in your portfolio though if included as part of an artistic expression of composition.

though, if you're an already established photographer it's wise to not include it.

great pic though!

Hmm, I think there's potential in there...

Depends on what other shots you have though.