This is probably one of the best lit photos you posted in a while. I like the very well done balance between your "side lights" and the fill. The fill is there, but it's definitely not too much - just splendid. I would not be real happy with the shadow cast on the background by your fill.
It's interesting - there's a discussion about selective colorization in the Wedding forum and here you have one. This is well done. The focus is the apple. Had this been full color, I don't think the impact would have been quite the same.
You've also done a splendid job posing your model. On nit I see is her left hand - it's way tooo stiff/tense. Her obvious attempt to "maintain her modesty" is a huge distraction. In the vein of "we want to most see that which is hidden" I think had her hand been on her hip (or elsewhere) the visual draw to that area would have been greatly reduces and thus the impact of the photo increased.
I don't care for the pose or the mask. The pose is just incongruous. The tense left hand in that position makes no sense with the sensual allure of the offered apple. Quite frankly, the left hand is very distracting.
I'm just not a mask person. I just don't care for the mask being in color here along with the apple.
About the pose...
You guys don't think I just let it all happen, do you? In fact, everything, from head to toes - literally - was placed according to my directions...
The idea was "the promise of a forbidden fruit".
The image does have two focal points on purpose, suggesting if you get one, you'll get another, all in one "diabolical" plot...
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It's interesting - there's a discussion about selective colorization in the Wedding forum and here you have one. This is well done. The focus is the apple. Had this been full color, I don't think the impact would have been quite the same.
You've also done a splendid job posing your model. On nit I see is her left hand - it's way tooo stiff/tense. Her obvious attempt to "maintain her modesty" is a huge distraction. In the vein of "we want to most see that which is hidden" I think had her hand been on her hip (or elsewhere) the visual draw to that area would have been greatly reduces and thus the impact of the photo increased.
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I don't care for the pose or the mask. The pose is just incongruous. The tense left hand in that position makes no sense with the sensual allure of the offered apple. Quite frankly, the left hand is very distracting.
I'm just not a mask person. I just don't care for the mask being in color here along with the apple.
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About the pose...
You guys don't think I just let it all happen, do you?
The idea was "the promise of a forbidden fruit".
The image does have two focal points on purpose, suggesting if you get one, you'll get another, all in one "diabolical" plot...
But apparently I didn't deliver...
(Wow, can you tell I have an art history final on Friday?)
Also, I was working on my photo project using apples as props and their relationship to the female figure as well, so what a strange coincidence ^_^
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