Great photo:-) You did with your eye photo what I could not with mine. Capture their imagination. You did a better job of getting the clarity right on the eye as well. Thanks for the tip of breaking a CD case for the glass effect. It works and I will definitely be stealing that idea :-) Great photo again :-)
I'm glad this shot placed 4th, but I really feel that it should have placed higher. For me, it ranked right up there with the shot of the kid with the umbrella. You definitely deserved a ribbon. Nice job!
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. I totally didn't expect this shot to do so well when I submitted it, but I'm glad it did. My original concept for this shot was to take a framed piece of glass and shoot it with a bb gun to crack it up a bit and shoot a picture of a person through the broken glass, preferably outdoors. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to put things together for that so I modified it at the last minute late Sunday afternoon. I cracked a plastic CD jewel case with a hammer and took some shots through that. I started with the whole face, then a profile, and finally after about 3 or 4 different sessions of taking pictures and seeing what they looked like, I decided to focus in on the eye area. Since the lighting in my apartment is pretty dark, I used a Canon Speedlight 420ex external flash to light the shot. If I had more time and a more patient model, I would have fixed a few things, especially the lack of detail in the eye itself and the one crack/highlight that goes right through the eye. I did, however, make a concious decision to leave the border on the right side of the shot. I thought it framed it better and added some life to the black.
Very nice. Only two "I wish" comments: First is that the streak/scratch/crack that's running through her eye wasn't there. Second, that we didn't have the edge of the glass/plexiglass over on the right hand side -- I almost took it for another crack -- maybe even if it had a cracked edge, instead?
Very nice....One of my top 10 photos this week and just missed getting a 10 if I could have seen a little more light/detail in the eye...When a photo is so good but leaves me just wanting a little more...I give you a 9....
Really neat. I love the detail in the eyelashes, and the black negative space, as well as the way that the cracks in the glass frame the eye. Good job.
I think the positioning of the face here could have been done better. Because the eye and eyebrow are the main point of interest in the photo, I would have preferred to have seen them without any cracks over them. Would have cropped the edge of the window too.
VERY nice, there is alot of "interest" in this photo. My only problem is, I have consistantly downgraded others for small parts of people shots (mostly lame efforts), but this is soo good! You get an exception. Photo 10 Creativity 10 People 8 (minus only 2 for very partial person) total 9 (all the other partials got 5 or less)
Creative photo .... nice use of b&w ... I know you cant do this for the challenge, but try leaving the eye in color ... would give an interesting look.
I really like the composition on this shot, and the fact that it stands out from the rest of them. This would be a good picture for a creative writing class to write a story about, I think. It's a little bright on the left side.
This photo is fabulous! When I first looked at it, I could not tell what it was. Thought it was cobwebs stuck to someone's face. When I realized it was broken glass I was looking through, I was blown away. Fantastic job!
Interesting framing of the broken glass around your subjects face. I hope it wasn't broken with the impact of your subject..... I gave you a 9. Nice shot.
Fantastic shot - love the way the scratches in the glass match up with the features. Just can't decide about the catchlight in the eye - intially I didn't like it but then tried to imagine the shot without it and I think it should stay.
Sort of a descent-into-madness feel. Like the silhouetting, the highlight in the eye and the individual eyelashes. Good use of very cold tone. Good use of zone system.
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