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wow it's so weird it scares me a little -it looks like some kind of alien body with 3 legs and the format works very well with it and the tones are nice soft which tells me it's ok and it's probably a human female and not a 3 legged beast. I think it's a success.
definitely evokes a disquieting yet transcending feeling... the ambiguity of the person's form and the position they are resting in as well as the void that hovers above. although a self portrait or portrait of someone else, it almost resembles a landscape with an enormous sky in the form of a japanese scroll.
It's a little upside-down and backwards and I like that. I'm really bothered by the crop. I can see it as a part of something else, but it doesn't really work for me alone.
I really like this but I am not completely sure why. It doesn't make me that uncomfortable, but because the form that is created by the body is not a normal and recognizable position and the crop is to such an extreme it makes me not even think it is a photograph...but then I don't know what it would be. I really like the bumps or ripples or whatnot at the top of the frame, they put me at ease. Simple and lovely...weird to use lovely on something so odd, but that is the atmosphere you have created.
I go back and forth between liking the ambiguity of the soft fleshy pink form and the odd vertical cropping... but I think I am slightly bothered by the obviousness of the crop. I understand what you are trying to do by making the human form seem very abstract and almost beast-like but I think I want to see just a bit more of the figure to feel more aesthetically satisfied. Not quite sure yet.
I love the softness of the image itself and the very delicate and feminine tones used. The lighting is great. It's a very painterly image.
First but least important - I think this image is over-exposed. It might be my screen, but I can't find detail in the whites where I really want them. The unusual cropping certainly draws attention in this image. It makes me feel like there was a lot of vertical action just before the shutter went. Maybe the entire torso was outstretched into that space and then suddenly collapsed into the sheets. I really feel like I want the spine to be centered to help balance and accentuate that feeling. Either way cropping what is expected to be there and including what isn't expected leaves a lot to the imagination.
Drew: calibrate your screen, the whites aren't blown out.
I enjoy the unusual crop. It certainly gets me looking at the image in an unusual way. I initially thought the figure was the top part of a skull, showing only to the top of the eye-sockets. All the blue space above adds a lot of tension and I love how the tones subtly change near the top, almost like a wispy cloud. I think anytime you can make people think about the image beyond the subject matter something is right.
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