Sunshine and Rain

Creating a vintage painting effect.

would be a better picture in my opinion if the woman on the right was not in the picture.

As an opinion I have to respect it and I do but elaborate on the reasoning a bit please!

very impressive ! good colors ! 7/7

I agree. The model on the left could carry the picture by herself. The two together are somewhat distracting of the simple grace the left one shows.

 

-Ben

...and the one to the left has no grace because???

I believe Ben felt the model on the left does have enough grace to carry the entire image herself, I agree and the resultant space (uncropped) would add a dreamy emptiness

Hey Haleh, interesting image. I think people might be reacting to a difference in expression between the two models. The one on the right looks "harder", and "darker". And maybe positioned just a bit more awkwardly. The two models seem to clash is how I'm interpreting the comments. I'm just guessing.

hi

i think this is a beautifull picture, because of the different feelings that are caused by it. if you know what i mean. its like feeling if it's raining or if sun is shining...the only thing i don't like is that there is no symetrie between them..i mean there position..it seems to me that the photographer prefers the sun ;)

I am just having fun with all that sunshine and rain have created! I finally got a decent critique going on! Hurray!

My concept of using these two models with a title such as "sunshine and rain" was demonstrating our ability to judge people the same way we judge the weather. Rain represents darkness and distance and sunshine does the opposite.

I would not have understood the sunshine and rain from looking at the picture but having read your comments it makes perfect sense.....rick

This photo would be fantastic with sepia added !!!

I want to make a comment and yet make it come across as positive. I think that the picture is superb, but both the expressions, unfortunately, spoil it. You cannot photograph glamour with a morose look on the face. A highly commendable effort anyway. This looks terrible, I will have to come back and change the wording.

No. Don't change a thing! What you said is your observation. My mission is not to always get a cheery reaction.

I was afraid you would say that. :-) Then maybe the picture is working exactly as intended. Maybe you can burn in the area around the model to the right - darken the image around her to more convey the darker mood? The model on the left - in her position - seems to dominate the composition - making the darker mood model seem out of place. Or maybe we're all just positive and optimistic on photo.net? :-)

The darker area is dark enough without being too obvious. Photo.neters are just like sunshine and rain too!

I like this shot just as it... chris