Lighthouse Island

In the nudes critique section, it's considered ettiquete not to count the model too highly in the critique. I suppose that this is because not everyone can afford to hire the models they might prefer, or that it's subjective, or even personal, such as wife or husband...

That said, it's interesting to consider the subject in the landscape... Is our ability to travel, to choose our "model" the same? To some extent, it is. When we visit a particular location, we produce the best photograph we are able given the lighting, the location, and so on.

That said, this is an excellent model. I particularly like the brickwork detail as we approach the top of the lighthouse. The architecture itself is a work of art. The placement of the support building is also aestheticly superior. This is within the control of the photographer, to some extent. Here I see no distracting architectural elements. Everything seems to fit into one integrated scene.

I particularly like the quality of light, and the sky. I wonder how it would look in color, and with different tonalities. This is very hard to judge at lower resolutions. I get the impression that at a higher resolution, this is a magnificent photo. At the resolution presented, it's certainly extremenely attractive.

Sometimes I wish the photographer would post a full resolution photo, or at least a supplemental detail to show how much detail is actually there, and to give an idea of the textures of the full resolution image. So this critique focuses more on the limitations of this forum than any defect in the photo, for I can't detect any problem in the photo whatsoever.