[RSStory]

All good questions and should be an interesting topic.

I should clarify one thing from my post. It isnt just a case of 5 positives vs 2 negatives. As RFS said one negative could potentially outweigh all the positives. The real question in my statement was, does the overall negatives detract so much from the image as to make the positives irrelevent. And it also assumes that the technical aspects of the image are sound. ie lighting, composition and I would consider the pose to be one of those elements. If these things are not right and cant be fixed in post then I dont really see how the image will work.

so, does the overall good outweight the overall bad in an image? I dont know, but that is my standard.

As for one little flaw killing a sale... Look at any major magazine and you can find more then one little flaw in almost every image. But the person that made the decision to use it either didnt see it or felt that it was outweighed by the strength of the rest of the image.

Scott