Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi Frank ...
Didn't see the original post.
I'm of mixed feelings about this one. My first comment is that the tonality is awful and really needs to be less contrasty and show some more detail, which I know is within the photo.
I like the statement made by the background. However, not showing Leah's eyes, her not looking wither at the camera, or at something, lessens the impact that this portrait could have had. I like the potential, but not the execution or the final statement. The background and the piercings are at odds with the posture, and if you wanted to show the softer side of Leah, I'm not sure that the background you chose does the best job. I guess I feel an ambiguity ... which isn't a negative in and of itself, but I don't think it adds to the portrait. My feeling about the ambiguity may change ...
I quite like the ambiguity. Classic teenage angst. Wanting to belong and yet to be different. Confident but unsure. It highlights, for me, what I loathed about being physically that age. I'm still there, mentally....
Curious about what's cropped. Presumably something in her hands?
Hi!
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3289593&size=lg
I'm not sure what I think about this crop, so I'll post the uncropped version in a day or so, to see if anyone may want to give cropping their best shot (you'll see why I think it needs a crop when you see the full-frame version).
