This is a self-portrait shot in my living room. I would've liked it to come out a bit better, but this was a last minute shoot. Tweaked contrast, lightness, and cropped in PSCS.
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difficult to distinguish subject matter. i like the smoke and silhouette, but i find it loses alot of meaning without compromising its art appeal. a nice shot artistically.
I love the lighting here. For me it's rather showing hopeless, maybe if there was a little-little more lighting on the fingers, it would be more appearent that your model is praying. I would also vut the bottom, to make the knee(?) out of sight).
If there were more light on the hands themselves, it would evoke an even stronger sense of faith to me. As is, my first impression is more of lonliness and despair.
Without the title, I might take this as "despair". The eyes are drawn to the hair on the arm and it's a bit too dark to make out the whole of the composition.
Nice. I like the darkness, and the sense that I have to look closely to see any detail. But I wish I could see more detail on the face - that would have been a more interesting central subject than the arms.
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