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If this were myspace.com I think you'd get some traffic. The subject matter is quite appealing. Strictly looking at the artistic qualities of the work it's well done. The shading is nice, the darkness and contrast created works well. As a desktop image, the black left hand side would work well for icons. But I could never use this kind of picture as a desktop. It would cause way too many questions.
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The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. - Brooks Anderson
Yup! The sharp horizontal banding works well on the curves of the arm and torso. Black and white really enhances the atmosphere you were trying to create. You used it well. Good job. I think I agree with mapbc, though. This will not make a good desktop, but it makes good art.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. - Churchill
This a very emotionally profound capture.One wonders what the subjects mind is pondering,what emotion is controlling the essences of the photo.A challenging render.Thanks for sharing.............Jim
I just sent this straight to my favorites. Not just because of the beautiful girl in the pic, but also because it is a very good shot. I like the emotion in it.
I like the darkness at your back in contrast with the light your facing, though you're not looking there. It makes me wonder what's behind you that I can't see, what you've faced away from, and why it seems you're still holding on, not fully taking in the new direciton.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Edward Weston