Stu from the other side

This is a remarkably elegant photo. Astonished to see it rated at fours and fives, but not surprised - the masses at photo.net miss the mark with painful regularity.

 

Nice work. High marks on both A and O.

I was out taking night shots with my mate Stuart Semmens (see

photographer listing for his folder), when we decided that this

rippled glass was a bit too interesting to pass by. So I got him to

get behind it and this was the result. I like the concept but would

be interested in suggestions re- angles, flash, coloring etc. Please

advise, and give it a rating if you feel so inclined.

But I feel a mid range score for aesthetics is appropriate. While a high score for originality works for me.

 

I think if you could re create this photo, you could improve on it by having the subject look into the camera instead of looking away from the camera.

 

I think this would create a tension between the viewer and the subject. We would be trying to connect with the subject by viewing his features, but the glass would prevent it. This tension could be dramatic.

 

I might even experiment for a few shots by having your friend trying to shout through the glass as if he were trying to tell us something.

I'd love to have some of this glass. I'd try putting a variety of things behind it, not just people.

I think you can do a lot with this. Particularly if you could set him back and blur the glass a bit just to get its affect. I think that could yield some interesting results. But I think there are two approaches with this glass, having the glass obvious, and having it blurred out and keeping the rippled affect.

Although, I found the small image more striking, because at first it wasn't obvious that it was glass, and created momentary confusion, so I think that focusing somewhere on the other side of the glass, leaving it blurred would add to the whole effect.

I think this shot is really cool. I also agree with above comments.