A friend of mine committed suicide about a year ago at the age of 19. I still think a lot about him and it makes me sad that he is not among us anymore.
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On a scale of 0-2 in five different categories: Image quality - .5 (the blood doesn't look remotely real which hurts this shot). Composition - 1. Lighting - .5 (the lighting looks too yellow - while you may have intended that to give the hand more a more dead look it also yellowed your knife too). Post Processing - .5 (you probably could have done a lot in post processing to improve the shot using levels and brightness adjustments. Choice of Subject - 1.5 (I think your idea is creative). TOTAL SCORE - 4
neat idea for the "final exit". i really like the way the hand is positioned and the overall effect of the shot, but the fake blood could have been a little more realistic for the shot. great job.
Classic shot; what's the goo on the wrist and the shine at the right; I would have cropped it out. The hand would stand alone; a black background with the bloodless hand and natural colors would have worked well
Not a lot of blood for a slit wrist - must have missed the artery! The concept is good, and the composition and focus is right, but the lack of blood takes away some 'credibility' - that said, if it were there you would probably be slated for gratuitous gore....
Sorry, for no other reason than an extremely personal one, "suicide suggested" photos I find very difficult to look at, and as with every such shot in every challenge, I vote right down. There's nothing technically bad about this shot, and it does meet the challenge, but I appalls me. I vote instinctively and emotionally to a very large extent on challenges - unfortunately this one hits hard and it will get a low vote from me...but then it's just one vote....
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