I'm sorry you are so thin-skinned; making you cry wasn't what I wanted to do...sorry.

I didn't call you names, I didn't use profanity, I didn't say that you are crap and should sell your camera, so why insinuate that i was a meanie?

I just listed "some" of the things wrong with your image and pointed out that in my opinion, the nose highlights and face shadows were a small part of it.

How in the world does this not help?
Now you know what to watch for next time:

1.) Don't position your subjects in front of busy doors and backgrounds, keep backgrounds simple.

2.) Keep an eye on (and fix) the white balance if necessary

3.) Keep an eye on blown highlights, (and fix) if needed.

4.) Don't rely on crappy gym overhead lighting (or whatever crappy lighting you are confronted with in any other place you are shooting in) as your main light source, but to add light if needed to make it as flattering as possible.

5.) Keep an eye on small details like CA and get rid of it if necessary.

If it were me, and someone took the time to evaluate my image and tried to tell me how I erred in portrait taking (and thus tell me what NOT to do next time) I'd be grateful that they made the effort to look at my stuff and let me know how I can improve.

You SHOULDN'T be working on "hours" on edits for just a handful of images. If you are...something is very wrong. You should strive to avoid hours of edits and figure out how to do better IN camera ON location so you don't sit in front of PS for hours.

If all you are looking for is ego stroking and smiley faces and nobody helping you improve...you won't get far without a lot of struggle...if at all.

I'm sorry you are so thin-skinned; making you cry wasn't what I wanted to do...sorry.

I didn't call you names, I didn't use profanity, I didn't say that you are crap and should sell your camera, so why insinuate that i was a meanie?

I just listed "some" of the things wrong with your image and pointed out that in my opinion, the nose highlights and face shadows were a small part of it.

How in the world does this not help?
Now you know what to watch for next time:

1.) Don't position your subjects in front of busy doors and backgrounds, keep backgrounds simple.

2.) Keep an eye on (and fix) the white balance if necessary

3.) Keep an eye on blown highlights, (and fix) if needed.

4.) Don't rely on crappy gym overhead lighting (or whatever crappy lighting you are confronted with in any other place you are shooting in) as your main light source, but to add light if needed to make it as flattering as possible.

5.) Keep an eye on small details like CA and get rid of it if necessary.

If it were me, and someone took the time to evaluate my image and tried to tell me how I erred in portrait taking (and thus tell me what NOT to do next time) I'd be grateful that they made the effort to look at my stuff and let me know how I can improve.

You SHOULDN'T be working on "hours" on edits for just a handful of images. If you are...something is very wrong. You should strive to avoid hours of edits and figure out how to do better IN camera ON location so you don't sit in front of PS for hours.

If all you are looking for is ego stroking and smiley faces and nobody helping you improve...you won't get far without a lot of struggle...if at all.

I'm going to be honest here and say that a few shadows are the least of your problems.

Your background is busy and distracting, the low angle isn't flattering to her, and the white balance is atrocious.


You've blown out the detail in her white shorts also.


Not sure what you filled but the overhead lighting is unflattering and she's got raccoon eyes because of it.

What he said...If you have a lot more to shoot, you don't want to spend hours and hours in post processing.

What he said. You have a lot more to shoot other than just one and I don't think you want to spend hours in PS correcting each one.

There's a ton of chromatic aberation around her also.

One other thing...you should really actually "light" them instead of taking what the gym gives you and trying to bandaid it with a bit of on-camera fill.