sometimes... it's ok not to feel like smiling

[mmaria]

Not sure how I feel about the magenta tone, but I love the overall concept of this image!!!

I agree with tirediron here. Love the image, but the purple tint is a bit too strong for my liking.

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I understand

 

[mmaria]

Love it, great photo. I don't think the magenta is too strong. It's whats making the dress pop as much as it is. Without it, we would be looking at a girl in a blue dress surrounded by dull weeds.

thanks
glad you like it just the way it is

Love the whole concept including the magenta and the way the blue pops out.

thanks Anna, ditto

 

[mmaria]

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Picking up our conversation about "unfinished images", this is a perfect illustration of exactly that idea.

On seeing the image, the eye is pulled immediately to the bright blue triangle, which we recognize as a little girl in a blue dress. Her hair hides half her face, and she does not seem to be smiling. In fact, we see in her posture a bit of pouty defiance. "No, I won't". We then recognize that she seems to be sitting on some kind of path that's overgrown with the weeds looking rather wild. Then the tone which one could associate with deep dusk, becomes more obvious, and is in contrast to the well-lit girl. The road seems to end in some kind of dark forest. And so we start asking the questions...

Why is the little girl pouting? Why is she in a party dress in the forest? Why is her face half-hidden? Why does it look like dusk, but not really? Why is she sitting alone in the road? What is actually going on?

The framing that you chose, having her face the near edge of the frame creates a tension, as we would naturally try and face the direction she faces, and that is outside our frame. So we can't go there. The depth of field focuses our attention on the plane where she is located, but gives us enough detail in foreground and background to create an effective context. The magenta colour again challenges our preconception (it "should" be green or brown, but it's not). The fact that half her face is covered by her hair, again creates a tension because it hides.

Excellent image. So much that the viewer can read into it.

I don't really know what else to say except : thank you so very much for all of what you wrote (trying to help me)

I'm really grateful for your eloquence and ability to read what I wanted to say with my image/s