This is a wonderful photo, full of emotion and intrigue. The model is beautiful and her expression is perfect. The low key and warm colors set the mood. And the composition draws you in. This is much more than a snapshot; you are there, with the girl, feeling what she is feeling (even if you don't exactly know what that is!).
The composition is brilliant. The negative space on the right is essential, and is just the right size. And while plain blackness might have worked, the unfocused veil is a lot more interesting. The very subtle diagonal lines in the veil, the tilt of her head and the slightly upward direction of her gaze give this photo a lot of excitement. The earring plays a subtle but important role: it grounds the photo in reality by providing a true vertical reference (her head is really tilted; it wasn't just the camera) and, along with the whites of her eyes, a true white reference so the warm skin color can be accurately perceived.
I do have one complaint: The lighting on her left cheek is too bright. It washes out that part of the face and detracts from the low key feeling. Worse, it attracts attention and becomes an inappropriate focal point. The texture from the veil's shadow is great, but I wish it was more like that by her eye, darker and colored, rather than bright and white.
But even with that flaw, this is an outstanding photo. Nice work.
You've set such a high standard that as good is this is, about
half of your portfolio is even better!
And I do agree with others that this should have placed higher.
Manny, this should have been in the top 5. I LOVE the shadows on the face. I love the colours and composition...I didn't get to vote, but this would have a 10 from me
Composition is impeccable and I like how her headdress fills the right side of the frame. However, the image lacks punch. I think you could have brightened her eyes, espcially her right eye, her earring, and the sequence. This may have also required brigher, and more broad lighting.
Manny, I presume? I like this one, more than a lot of your images, because (a) she looks very natural even though she is made up, (b) the DOF is absolutely beautiful, and (c) the shadows on the face really pull the image together, the girl and the cloth. I also like the white earring popping up at the bottom left, it sort of offers a bit of an anchor to the image.
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two now and I'm running late, sorry.
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