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An amazing sense of motion. He seems to be firing through the trees like laser beams. The way he interacts with his environment and yet seems to be not in it is startling.
It's an awesome photo, regardless of the challenge. Now within the framework of the challenge, I'm trying to figure out what's going on. What's his passion? Flying? Running through the snow barefoot and jumping all funky-like only to land on his face? Had this been a free study, I'd give 8. For this challenge, I'm giving a 6. At the same time I'm still curious if there is something that I'm missing.
OK! After the third time looking at this I finally get what you did. You took a dancer and put him thenatural environment instead of hisnatural environment. Now that I get it, I can vote on the effectiveness of the photo.
His butt is kinda lost in the trees though. Against a different background, OR with a more shallow dof, Or from a closer and higher angle, I think this would be an awesome shot.
His passion is jumping in weird poses in the snow with no shoes on? It just doesn't make sense to me. Also, it seems odd that he is well lit but there is no foreground lighting or and light hitting the trees. Makes for an odd combination, almost like he is cut and pasted from another picture...3
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