leighmcmullen

Love it wouldn't change a thing. I like how the light emphasizes the woman, and the water (also a female element).
For those complaining about the man being obscured in the shadow, he's a prop to produce emotional context for the scene, nothing more, might as well complain about not being able to see the walls clearly.
perfectly done.

After reading the comments, I'm relieved. I'm not the only one who thought this was a crotch shot...
Amazing work!

Actually I think the over exposure of the windows is what makes the composition. Perhaps it's just an anglo-american-metephor but "going into the light" is a euphimism for death, and a white hair musician, sitting alone at a table shouded in darkness but surrounded by brilliant light, tells that story nicely.
On third look, the white also evokes a sense of "silence" which postioned against this being a picture of a musician is also interesting.

It's funny, the synchronicity that happens in the world. I was just thinking this morning, wondering what my children would see if they looked at my hands, with scars and burns, and cuts on them, and thinking about creating some kind of image from them... and here you've gone and done it saving me the trouble...

Kudos!

Is it a critique to say I love this photo?

7/7

@ Stephen, it's a matter of preference of course, but I find that the ring of lights accentuates the composition. The imagery, of pale white skin against a sea of black evokes the supernatural.

It's not just that we're looking at a black and white photo of a pretty girl, but a capture of a ghost, or angel or some such, and there, the 'light of her eyes' increases the effect.

IMHO Ahn, perfectly executed, I just wish you took requests...

the presentation is outstanding, great color, lighting, detail, sharpness, lend this photo a "fantasy mood", that is very well executed.

My criticism comes with composition. You have the tree, then the house, then nothing, it goes flat... There isn't anything drawing me deeper into the scene, and I so much want to bathe in the colors beyond.

I wonder if you couldn't step to your right about three feet, and rotate left about 20 degrees, and add some depth to the composition?

Hauntingly beautiful... I admire your restraint, a lesser artist might have been inclined to add photoshop brush strokes or some such nonsense.