new -- color & b&w 'I Am Woman!'

The caption (title) says it all, for this silhouette photo, taken in

an underground complex recently in Eastern Europe during the

transition from deep winter to the outcropping of Spring. Your

ratings, critiques, and observations are invited and most welcome. If

you rate harshly, very critically, or wish to make a remark, please

submit helpful and constructive comment; please share your

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! john

Her body language shows strength and a positive attitude, as in your title, John. The use of silhouette adds nicely to that feeling. 

Great capture of this woman with the assured stance.Is the looser crop on the bottom part of the frame associated with those great boots?Excellent image-Bravo!

Salutations-Laurent

In past time, about one in ten or 15 shots I uploaded might have been a silhouette, but usually shot with a telephoto which is more amenable to such shots.  I'm not usually carrying a longer telephoto these days (i will shortly), so silhouette shots have lately gotten short shrift.

This was, however, taken at the 55mm (short telephoto) setting of a 17-55 mm lens, and did a passable job.

I'm kind of an admirer of US cartoonist Gary Trudeau who authors the 'Doonesbury' cartoon strip, who often uses a silhouette in one panel (the third usually) out of four in his daily strips (or he did last I looked).

It breaks the monotony.

The woman's outfit was perfectly outlined by the light, so the silhouette was a natural for this shot; otherwise there would have been no shot at all; the only issue was whether to make it full or a partial silhouette.

I chose mostly a full silhouette.

Thanks for the endorsement of the captioning. I try hard with those, and this one presented a challenge -- what do you say about a woman standing alone in an underground tunnel complex?  I did the best I could, and apparently did pretty well in your estimation.  Again, thanks.

john

John (Crosley)

Thanks for the compliment.

I'm a guy from the western half (rainy part) of the Northwest US, and when I grew up boots were not part of women's usual wear, and especially not fashion wear that I recognized.

As such, I didn't fixate in any way on boots as an item related to feminine sexualituy.  When I began visiting and later moving to Russia part time in the mid 1990s, where women were decidedly thinner than most American women (nd now the French too, I understand), women with thin legs who wore boots were decidedly rather attractive -- boots add considerable thickness to legs and with stout Oregon and Washington legs, there wasn't much room for the heft of boots to make a woman look especially more attractive wearing boots.

Other boots were decidedly of the apres ski variety -- that is thick and wooly, in my experience growing up and in later life.

I went to Columbia College, Columbia University, NYC and it was an all-male school, but there were 25,000 coed grad students and still boots were not then a big item with the women; so again they were not part of my sought after look, but I do understand that for some men boots are a very sought after look.

I do understand, and did when I posted this, that for certain men, this photo (for the boots alone) would be  turn-on, and for others, her 'outfit', being complete and somewhat fashionable was the point of the whole photo.

The loose crop to the bottom represented the need to put additional lightness around her lower extremities, and what better way than with lightening somewhat the pavement/cement on the approach to her feet/boots?  That helped draw the eye to her whole body and outfit, which otherwise was very well silhouetted and 'evened out' the whole silhouette, I felt.

It also varied the shot a little from what one might expect.  I take so many shots of one type before I start varying them a little or a lot; this is just one example.

Thanks for the helpful, eagle-eye viewpoint.

john

John (Crosley)

I don't think this particular photo needs any more analysis than the two words you have used to describe it.

Thank you.

john

John (Crosley)

good one, nothing to say

Thank you.

No reason for you to have said more for this one.

john

John (Crosley)