people Smoking Lips

I'm a high school student who became interested in photography about

6 months ago, and I would really appreciate any comments you might

have. Thanks!

Ouch! *8)

 

A nice shot; the texture of the flesh, the rings, the smoke all come out well. A comment that may just reflect my advanced age: for me, the metal piercing the skin is a more obvious feature of the image than the smoke coming out between the lips...

It took me awhile to see the smoke coming out from the lips--my eyes were drawn to the two rings pierced through her lips.

 

Suggestions:

 

Decide whether you want the smoking or the piercing. If you want the piercing, you're almost there, but the smoke is a distraction.

 

If you want this work to be on the Great American Smokeout 2002, have your friend change her rings to labrets for a more subtle piercing and make the smoke more blatant, perhaps with a more forceful blowout on her part. Or keep the rings and put a cigarette in her mouth. That'll get Phillip Morris going on their youth prevention of smoking campaign! ;-)

 

The choice is yours. Good effort! --KEP

here's what i see: you've captured in this girl's lips - a girl: bitter, angry, vengeful.. a young girl lost.. excellent composition and cropping..

lovely sexiness obscured, augmented, bound, tempting, addictive,individualistically conformed to change. exposing pain.