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09/10/2009 12:49:46 PM |
When I look more closely I really like this, but I needed to spend time. The pose is noticeably different and it's shot and composed well. The b/w is really nice. I think 400+ free studies are hard for a picture like this one because people are looking for wow - they don't absorb nuances and/or take the time when they're scoring to really see what they're looking at.
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09/08/2009 07:04:27 PM |
| Technically great, lighting, composition, choice of B&W all works for me. The only problem I see is as chromey said, she just feels awkward, and to me a little disconnected from the viewer. I didn't vote on it but I would have given it a 7, surprised it didn't make it in the 6's. |
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09/08/2009 06:09:44 PM |
I don't see anything technically wrong here at all.
I suspect the subtle things might have worked against you:
As noted, her left-frame foot placement seems awkward & floating--a bit of outboard swivel to the left, showing a little more heel and line of the shoe/foot might have made more accessible, and created a flow into the image even more than you already have. (I just got chewed out, er, constructively criticized, yea that's it, for the "hiding of the heels" in a shot by a pseudo art director so I am extra conscious of that now :-)
The line from her right-frame knee up to her shoulder is basically straight, perhaps not as feminine as possible, and could cause some subtle lack of interest. Her left-frame thigh is blending with her torso, adding a bit of thickness/bulk right there--more so because of the graphic b/w treatment.
Her straight to the side gaze is okay, but the hidden implication is that there is something of interest way out of view, and it might tend to send the viewer right out of frame. That, with her pose, almost suggests something she is tense about "over there" and so there is an unspoken tension/negativity in the image for me.
I like the arm placement, though it might seem closed off or uninviting--but it looks casual and natural to me, almost like you snapped this when she wasn't expecting to be shot.
I like the graphic look, here, but that can also be off-putting to some.
If this basic shot were tweaked with the foot twisted out just a bit, some separation between the left-frame leg and torso, and the model did a slight head tilt toward the frame-right, faced the camera and fired off a smoldering look right thru the lens, well, if she did that, nobody would notice the ankle twist at all :-) |
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09/08/2009 02:27:53 PM |
| Sometimes plain backgrounds work, sometimes not as well. Her foot on the left side of the picture appears to be floating, not set on anything, which is rather awkward to say the least. Almost sees as though she's about to get up to get away from something we can't see. The right side almost appears as though she's pasted on to the background. Perhaps just not enough is grounded here, or not enough context, and it appears to be a shot that needs to be pasted onto something else to give it balance? |
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09/08/2009 08:40:25 AM |
| I find my eyes are just not interested in the right hand section of the photo. I think that if one produces a contextless image then the ammount of space it occupies needs to be quite small. The exposure of the lass is flawless. |
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09/08/2009 08:24:25 AM |
| Nope.....don't get why it scored so low. Lovely image. |
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09/07/2009 10:14:40 PM |
| Dramtic shot...I like it. |
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09/03/2009 03:28:54 PM |
| Different. Kinda unusual pose. Lots of unused empty space on the right towards where the model is looking. It gives the feeling that there ought to be something there, as if somethings missing. |
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09/01/2009 04:44:21 PM |
| Very alluring photo with her pose, how she is looking to the right and her expression. |
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