purple glazeby
munkeyprn44Comment by Koriyama: *critique club*
Writing personally, one of the reasons why I became a member of DPC was to develop my technique as a single-shot photographer. I was heavily involved with the more traditional arts in the past, but now, I am pursing an interest in photography as a modern art.
Why am I writing this rather than critique this photograph? Having studied this ‘shot’ for some time, seeing that both faces are identical – needing a timed exposure and a model who can produce the exact position, different light casts on different parts of the canvass – requiring a specially-made filter, seeing two vertical lines on the left-hand side which interrupt the flow – the ready-made filter again?, and not being given any information about the making of this shot, I can be forgiven to believing that this is not a single shot, but a computer-aided graphic. Now, there’s no inherent problem with that, only on this site, we only accept single-shot entries. If it is, I’d really love to see how you did it. When you do, I’ll write a full critique, I promise.
By the way, I actually like the image. The word ‘purple’ has strong connotations of contemplation, worry and despair, all of which are present here.