girl with apples

First things first! Congratulations on the POW ! A well merited  distinction for an image with lots of personal expressive tools.

Your latest submission is sheer revelation! Justina  has very expressive eyes and lets us trying to decipher the reason of her astonishment. If there are more than one  variations that's a good sign  for the photo ! Brilliant! The editing applied is not sophisticated  but it is utterly artistic and appropriate for the subject

Serdecznie gratuluje i pozdrawiam

Chris

the light falls flawlessly to evoke the drama of the image. ;-} dp

Hello Nitka!

She is a very sweet girl with expresive eyes, and u captured very well! Also the editing is very well done, love the combination of monohromatic with colours and the tones u used are excellent! Great photo, congratulations!

Very gritty and interesting. Lighting, composition, and processing are all great. Thanks for sharing.

Pure art! So many of your images are. I can only admire.

Foto speciale con molto carattere e bella personalità,bel messaggio,complimenti !

Very beautiful portrait,  great use of selective coloring in a black&white,  however I feel that only the apple in her hand should have been left in color, the magical part of this photograph is the center area containing the subject's face and the hand holding the apple,  the colored apples in the basket seem to draw our attention away from that area,   the hand holding the basket does seem to have more volume than the other one,  again the colored apples in the basket also draws our attention to that, if the hand was more below the basket and farther back it wouldn't appear as much,  despite that it's still a lovely portrait and it's a cut above the rest.

Thank you very much for the good word.Steve thank you for your attention.

Heartfelt thanks and sorry for my bad English

beautiful portrait!!

I like the muted tones and the use of coloring on the apples is a natural choice. I especially like that they are not perfect polished apples.  Use of a normal instead of long lens gives an intimacy that I like. You know, this could be any of our grandmothers from Eastern Europe in the early 20th Century, so it rings a bell.  Of course it helps to have a real genuine model young girl who can act the part and express herself to your camera. I like it, well done...Aloha to you, as always, Gerry

I always enjoy this style of bw colour manipulation. I think the idea of  the colour extending only so far from the apples was a good one.  It might be, however, that  a reduced colour could have extended from her chest to her face as her face looks a bit blue by comparison.

I love it, love it, love it. This kind of image makes my soul ache. Perfect use of colour emphasis. Magnificent overall image. Your whole portfolio is breathtaking and inspires me to try much much harder! Thank you!

simply..great! congrats Bozena!

Such evocative work. Lovely composition and theme.