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well done....

nice job!

Fantastic image. Thanks for sharing. Regards!

Lovely colors and contrast, could you please tell me which filters you used to get this atmosphere.

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Cool image.Great composition & arangment ! Colors are so beautiful and photography mood is perfect.Wind in model's hair ha made beautiful & attractive scene and the use of atmosphere is great.Model is dressed up really well and also the appearance has helped the photography's beauty too,And also his looking is so powerful & attracTive.

 

I am interested to know the equment and to know why is the noise in this shot ? Is this deliberated ? I think that noise is a weak part of this shot !

The composition and great mood lighting work wonderfully here, but the horizontal "stripes" the elf speaks of just don't seem to improve on this already excellent photograph. I find it more to my liking by cropping away the very topmost layer where the last of the sky is but no lower. This way the rule of thirds still applies and the distraction of the sky, trees and hills is absent.

 

My congratulations for making this weeks photograph. Loved your other works too. Very nice!

 

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Nice elegant work. This doesn't seems liek a true skin and other tones photograph, but looking like a nice graphics art. I like the compostion and expressions of the human in the picture. I know there is havey post processing behind the result came out.

 

finaly the lighting and exposure looking very nice in the final output.

Sorry, I don't see anything extraordinary about this photograph, and definitely see nothing clever and/or original here. The concept of model-as-crouching-animal has been done before to much better effect.

If this is supposed to be a fashion shot, I think it fails, simply because the overall composition has too many elements. If the emphasis is supposed to be on the model's wardrobe, there isn't enough of that showing to even determine what the model is wearing...it could be a shirt, tunic, dress, or simply a swath of cloth, which I think would sort of negate the shot's use as an advertising tool.

I like the light, but again, there's nothing really special about it.

I could be wrong, of course, and simply missing the point of the whole thing, but this simply doesn't work for me at all. Practically every other photograph in the photographer's portfolio is ten times better than this one.

I happen to agree with Jim on many points, but I think what bothers me the most about this picture is that it looks like a studio shot, which is not inherently a bad thing, but if it was a location shot, and it turns out looking like a studio set, that, to me, is not ideal. If it's a studio shot, and it looks like a studio shot, that's not ideal, either, unless it's a portrait, or a table top, for example.

 

The layers pointed out by the elf are interesting, but I too, don't really see how they support the theme. In fact, because we can readily tell they're layers seems to be a point in against the photo re: the studio thing. Let's roll in the background, let's roll in the foreground, the middle ground, etc.

 

Besides that, the lighting seems very artificial, to me, and so I disagree with several people as to its likeability. Again, nothing wrong with artificial light, but here it wants to mimic moonlight, and it doesn't quite do it, for me. I like the concept, and the elf's comments about lifestyle versus the garment, but the picture itself doesn't appeal to me so much. When I see it, I don't get the feeling she's crouching in the darkness, but rather that she's crouching in front of a camera under the illumination of studio lights and so I can't get past the technical execution to enjoy the concept.

I think this has a lot of art to it. It's very clever in lots of ways, but it's leaving me cold. it just seems

too manufactured and too much towards graphic design than photography.

I like this shot generaly, althou there is nothing terribly unique there. It's well done, I like the colorwork and the lightning. But somehow I can't see justification of this shot, I don't see the "story" here, nor do I see the value as fashion shot or glamour shot (both of which I don't understand generaly either, so it might be just me).

 

All in all, well made shot, but it makes me question why was it taken, to celebrate beaty? If so then I realy don't know why :)

Fantastic shot. Keep up the good work....

If it were meant to be a fashion shot, it's not quite right for the reasons mentioned above (can't identify the clothes or much of the mode's body); if it were meant to capture a feral, catlike mood, I think it doesn't quite make it (perhaps tighter cropping and more emphasis on the model's expression and wind-blown hair would help). Unfortunately, I'm unable to determine what the photographer's intentions were here. It does capture a mysterious, dark mood; there's just too much going on around the subject to emphasize that, IMHO.

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There is something unnatural in the way the human figure is staged , and the whole is not convincing.Technical elements like light, and sharpness are well done.

In my opinion this picture is failured because of light.The model seems too "pasted" on natural background. All other authors pictures of this series are perfect in their kind.

For me I dont consider this photo very original at all, looks like it was shot in a studio, both the background and the model do not appear

natural, and what is the purpose of the photo, is the model male or female, if the photographer was trying to achieve a look of natural light,

it fails in that respect, "Perfect for an advertorial" - yes, but thats about all.

When looking at this picture and reading the comments, I am wondering why "unnatural" would mean "bad". Should every picture look natural, and in which way, and why?

 

I like this POW - although I prefer many other pictures in Stanislav Petera's great portfolio. What I like here is, precisly, this strange artificial flavor, this "studiotic feel", which is kind of paradoxal for an outdoor shot. :-) In other words, I like the level of sophistication of this picture in terms of light and graphics. Very professionally done.

 

As far as concept is concerned, I have no opinion, because I don't know what this picture was used for. But to me, the artificiality of this picture is really part of the concept. And I see humor in this artificiality and in this pose - second or 3rd degree. Am I the only one to see humor here...? I wish to know more about the concept. I hope the photographer will post a few words on this topic. Regards.

Reminds me of graphics in a computer game. No doubt clever, but leaves me feeling nothing.

My educated, untrained, guess about the main lighting sources would be that there were three primary lights. One coming from in front of the camera which lights the foreground grass. Another which lights half of the subject's face. And the last light shinning down from above. In my humble opinion, the light on his face and arm is just a little too much and separates him from his environment. Darkening it a touch made the subject become part of the photo, but it also darkened the mood quite a bit, which might be unappealing to some.

I think "humor" is pretty far down the list of possible interpretations. Unless you're a post-modern interpretist, in which case every photo has potential humor, regardless of intent... t

This photo does nothing for me either. I understand the depth of the body against the flat nature of the environment, but it's the hollow composition, and stark light ratio that. Clever and original, I am going to disagree with. The shot has a look of a poorly lit diorama at the museum. Maybe a litle less light on the set, and more front fill from camera left, and you've got something... otherwise, this shot is empty and lacks direction.

Humor indeed! Only you have to add a caption to bring out the humor. I agree with Marc in the fact that the very artificiality and absurdity of placing a person of this sophistication in a wild context (that too rather unnatural) works for me too in some strange way. Let's consider it for an advertisement of suiting and shirting with the caption - for example: "You need not put on .... suiting and shirting when you are NOT at your office " or so on.

 

The lighting has been carefully done, and serves the purpose only if we decide NOT to take the image at face level and emphasize something really remote from it.

 

Let me also add that I find Stanislav's portfolio engrossing. Congratulation for the award.

Stanislav This is beautiful Image!

Dont mind but I guess according to her gesture her eyes would be prominent. But here half faced cut light lost its charm. .'Eyes' are centre of attrection here. It would be more highligted. Rest of things done perfectly.

 

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"a look of a poorly lit diorama at the museum"

This comment made me realize that I think a lot of contemporary fashion photography looks like exactly that... a diorama put together by someone who does not know anything about the natural habitat or behavior of the stuffed (static) creature on display. Now that's funny... t (and I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds this representation to be gender ambiguous)