Hello from the Critique Club!
The image shows an inquisitive child who wants to be part of what’s going on inside. I want to know what’s going on inside! Her hands suggest an ‘ I shouldn’t be looking in’ and at the same time a pleading to be let in. It evokes in me memories of when I wanted to be with my father when he was busy with his friends.
My eyes are drawn directly to the child̢۪s eyes and refuse to move. So it is fitting that her eyes lie at the near centre of the image. The image is all about those eyes and the pleading in them. Along with this pleading is that faraway look that children often get; when they seem to be in a world of their own, burdened by thoughts that they are too young to have, reminding of us our own childhood hopes and fears.
The diagonal line is good composition and the eyes being centred does work for me.
The top, light, diagonal is well balanced by the darker, bottom, diagonal, and symbolically the girl is looking at something that is in the dark and out of reach.
Again symbolically, the girl is in the diagonal with young, fresh green grass. She looks into a darker area that has peeling paint, representing something old, tired and worn.
Perhaps a tilt of the camera to make the diagonal go from corner to corner would have created even more impact? The band of condensation (?) across the bottom of the glass has created a visible line and softened the eyes unnecessarily, but I guess that was invisible until the image was on screen?
Still, a lovely image that evokes many feelings.
Message edited by author 2005-05-22 20:41:44. |
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