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I hate admitting that I like the cropped version also. I don't know that I would go so far as to say it was significantly better but I enjoyed it.

 

Can I be in the Crop Circle Club too?

This one reminds me a lot of a of a photo by Ed van der Elsken (Love on the Left Bank), a girl in front of a dirty regflective surface, don't think his one was a mirror though.

The pose of the girl holding the mirror is a little bit strange to me(you can try yourself, you will be tired for holding the mirror so high and also it is unnatural that will you put the mirror on your shoulder?:) I can't see the other arm, normally we hold the mirror by two hands).

otherwise it is a good work. But there is not so much originality in using a woman and a mirror to convey the time's passing.

Really great job!

Add me to the people who find the pose contrived. I need more context to understand why she's handling the mirror like that, or whether this awkward pose was being struck just to satisfy the compositional urges of the photographer. This is the kind of pose I'd expect to see if she was lifting something of significant weight that needs to be put up high, not to handle a light, unframed old mirror.

 

Technically, it's very nice, and well done. But the image is falling just short of reaching me.

Nice light and contrast. I would like to see an alternate view. If the girl were looking into

the mirror so that her face was a little mysterious and harder to see, it would be, in my

opinion a stronger image.

I am onw that likes this photography adn would like to be in the room when the photographre makes it again. I think my pictrue will be the next pictyure of hte wwek. at leasts I hope so

This image reminds me of the limitations inherent to portrait photography. No matter the technical skill and vision of the photographer (and Evgeniy is undoubtedly skilled), the artist is still at the mercy of the acting ability or lack thereof of the model. Similar to another POW of an earlier time, in this image I cannot find any emotion in the expression of the model. She seems to be merely following directions, trying to get her pose correct, but feeling nothing in particular. The tones are wonderful, the props visually interesting, but her expression, in my view, has no connection with either.

The impression on the woman's face is quite striking. Aside from that, this picture is somewhat nominal.

I think besides the obvious beauty of the model and the contrasts of the many different textures in this photo, its true beauty is the implied story that may be implied in this photo.

 

I don't know about where you from but people don't ever dress like that here, though I'm sure they certainly could. Her outfit calls back to a time, at least in my American mind, of when people wore different clothes. And I think it implies poverty in some fashion, or perhaps mourning. Notice the unfinished seams on the back of her outfit. Here she has picked up the mirror and looks as if she could set it back down in any moment. In the photo she has already turned her attention to something else, so it does make you wonder. She looks upset, or at least indifferent. Is she looking at a home that was damaged somehow and is she looking through the wreckage? At a mirror, perhaps, she once used on a daily basis? I think that the earlier comments about it seeming to be a scene from a movie make sense. There is so much plot used in setting up this photo, whether intended or circumstantial.

 

Or, perhaps Evgeniy simply set this up to look cool. Either way, I think everyone agrees that it's beautiful. Great photo, Evgeniy.

 

Cheers,

 

Jesse Taylor

An Amateur, Amateur Photographer

Another plot - this is an abandoned home she's revisting after a long time.

What a truck-load of words and thought this photo has generated! That must be satisfying to Mr. Shaman. Some things are meant to be mysterious, and I suspect that's exactly what Mr. Shaman may have been after in creating this terrific image. As to meaning, well, I hate to be trite, but it IS in the eyes of the beholder. I don't really care about the meaning other than the effect that the photograph has on me, which is very pleasant. I could hang this on my wall and be happy to look at it every day for a very long time.

Well taken. Nice images in your portfolio,Keep up the good work. This is probably one of my favorite of your images as it reminds me of the national geographic image taken a few years ago. Good work.

What's amazing here is not only the picture, but the entire portfolio, coming from Russia, which in my lifetime, was still a dark box, with stereotyped square dumpy people that had bushy eyebrows and wanted to destroy us. I see the image as not only excellent, but also as part of the portfolio, and part of an overall presentation of concept. While the image might have been posed, it is posed well and for a purpose. It comes off well because the technical aspects of photography are clearly mastered and are being used as effective tool for presenting a beautiful image of a somewhat rough and weary, perhaps Roma girl, clearly showing that mastery of photography is extremely critical and essential before one can work their way up the photographic ladder to the rung of perhaps even "art". I sincerely hope that photo.net can work to attract more quality postings of this type and that perhaps we can look through the images to find more beauty, diversity and creativity.

Congradulations on this picture. I dont have another opionon on it anymore. but I like the eyes of the girl.

Beauty and decadence on the same shot...a really powerful and intense photograph, handshake!!

My Very Sincere Compliments.

funny but also emotionaly. fine. art.

To me she is saying, or her soul screams "Take me away". She shows the old mirror with a look of sorrow, contrasting with her youth. She holds the mirror inviting to contemplate her through this old decrepid mirror. Shares her sorrow, of what.... broken dreams, past sadness, present sadness, and the forebodeing future sadness. Why? Unfulfilment. Will you make that change, will you take her away?

 

Improvements: not having the hand hold the mirror?

PS. sorry but I don't agree with the crop, I find the composition spoilt and turned into a plain portrait. You lose the window... the window of escape, of opportunity, of future discovery. The window to me is too important a part of the composition, in the crop you don't see the hand though, which may be an improvement, then again maybe not.

Great B &W shot, wonderful composition, and lighting, as well the idea of using a piece of mirror to reflect her sweet profile and showing us some of her past...well done

Great light and shadow!